Dance/movement Therapist

Duties and Responsibilities: Dance/ movement therapist focus on helping their clients improve self-esteem and body image, develop effective communication skills and relationships, expand their movement vocabulary, gain insight into patterns of behavior, as well as create new options for coping with problems. It’s also a movement to promote emotional, social, cognitive and physical integration of the individual. 

Salary: $40,000-50,000 a year

Education:You need a strong dance background in addition a liberal degree. After a bachelor’s degree, students can enroll to the ADTA- approved master’s degree program in dance therapy. These courses will involve counseling, body movement assessment, and psychotherapy, also movement therapy.

Reflection:I would not want to be in this career because I want to be something else.