Dance Therapy is a form of creative and bodyoriented psychotherapy. Key components of intervention are movement and dance in combination with verbal expression. Psychological diagnostics are based on complex procedures of movement analysis. Integrating emotional, physical and cognitive processes into a self-guided expression of life is a major objective. The basic principles of dance therapy take into consideration impacts of depth-psychology and humanistic psychology.

Dance Therapy differs from other body-oriented methods by way of:

• the methodological application of objectifying movement analysis by Rudolf von Laban and the continuous scientific research thereof serving as diagnostic instrument and
• for developing a treatment plan the active creative process in dance therapy treatment.