My Approach

I work with a feminist trauma-informed approach, and support people to understand their own intersecting identities and the non-neutrality of bodies and language, as everyday dynamic processes. This embodied relational way of working emphasises the imperative of addressing unconscious or 'implicit' bias and the impact of racism, sexism, ableism, xenophobia and homophobia, transphobia and trauma therein.

Over the past twenty-five years, my clinical practice has involved facilitating groups and one-to-one therapy within a wide range of settings including NHS adult mental health services, dementia care, special educational needs and trauma-focused therapy for people who have experienced domestic violence, sexual assault and traumatic loss. I am also an experienced facilitator for professional development and training and have worked with organisations such as the Wellcome Trust, Arts for Peace with the Irish Government and Surrey Borders NHS Mental HealthTrust.

My private practice includes a blend of working one-to-one, with groups, and forms of artistic collaboration, writing and research. I bring my experience in the arts and feminist transdisciplinary scholarship to the psychotherapeutic and supervisory relationship. My research and publications include investigating the interrelationship between bodies, affect and the brain, loss, grief and trauma, and my forthcoming book addresses these issues: Moving Kinship: Practicing Feminist Justice in a More-than-Human World (Routledge, 2024).

www.beatriceallegranti.com

About Me

I am a UKCP registered body, movement and dance psychotherapist, trauma therapist and clinical supervisor, and have worked in the UK and offered consultancy internationally for over 25 years.

I have an interdisciplinary PhD (feminism, psychotherapy and choreography), and have trained in trauma therapy (NAOS), Dance Movement Psychotherapy (ADMPUK), and have extensive professional development and clinical supervision in Mindell's Process Oriented Psychology/Dreambody work (POP), and Keleman's approach to Body Psychotherapy known as Formative Psychology (Spectrum).

I work with

• Companies
• Couples
• Families
• Groups
• Individuals
• Private healthcare referrals

Special Interests

Like all UKCP registered psychotherapists and psychotherapeutic counsellors I can work with a wide range of issues, but here are some areas in which I have a special interest or additional experience.

Types of Therapies Offered

• Dance Movement Psychotherapist