SELF-STUDY CONTINUING EDUCATION
Learn the Language of the Body
On-demand courses for mental health professionals, rooted in dance/movement therapy and the body-mind connection.
Self-Study Continuing Education brings the clinical wisdom of our team into a set of on-demand courses you can move through in your own time, on your own terms.
These courses are taught by clinicians trained in dance/movement therapy, with the full Dancing Dialogue team behind the work that shaped them.
If you are looking for something specific, whether it is trauma, neurodiversity-affirming care, or early relationships, you can find a course led by the clinician who lives that work most closely, including Dr. Suzi Tortora, Dr. Renee Ortega, and Jenn Whitley.
You do not need to be a dancer, a performer, or a specialist to begin. You simply need to be curious about what happens when we let the body lead.
Each course is built on the same dance/movement therapy principles that guide every part of our clinical work, with steady attention to what the body is sharing and how the body speaks.
Program Details
Format: 100% online and fully self-paced
Platform: Hosted on Thinkific, accessible on any device
Access: Enroll once and return to the material whenever you need it
Who it is for: Mental health professionals, creative arts therapists, and allied clinicians
Experience: No dance or movement background required
CE Credits: Each course is 1.5 credits toward your New York State LCAT, LCSW, LMHC, or LMSW
Cost: $70 per course (price subject to change)
A Different Kind of Continuing Education
At Dancing Dialogue, we believe the body speaks long before words arrive.
Many continuing education courses ask you to absorb information from the neck up. We offer something else.
This learning is a felt experience, one that invites you to notice sensation, movement, and meaning as they arise in your own body and in the bodies of the people you serve.
Dance/movement therapy does not have to mean dancing. It can be a quiet, felt experience that connects inward, letting the body inform the mind rather than the other way around.
Many practices speak about the mind-body connection. We hold a body-mind view instead, which gently flips that idea on its head. The body leads, the mind follows, and understanding grows from there.
This is not about technique for its own sake. It is about deepening the way you listen, so you can meet each client in the language of the body, wherever they are.
THE COURSE LIBRARY
Courses You Can Begin Today
Each course draws on the lived clinical work of our team and guest faculty, offered as a source of steadiness, strength, and renewed care for the work you do. More courses are added over time. Check back as the library grows.
Dancing to Mindfulness in the Time of COVID
An invitation to meet uncertainty through the body, exploring how mindful movement steadies the nervous system when the world feels unsteady.
Dear Strong Black Woman
A tender, embodied look at the weight so often carried in silence, and how dance/movement therapy opens a space for rest, release, and being fully seen.
Dancing in the Virtual Space with Autism
How attunement and the language of the body come alive on screen, supporting autistic clients through neurodiversity-affirming dance/movement therapy.
De-Escalate, Co-Regulate, Ground
Practical, body-based tools for meeting dysregulation with calm, helping clients return to a felt sense of safety and ground.
Intro to Reiki & Psychotherapy
An introduction to weaving Reiki into psychotherapeutic care, honoring the body as a source of healing, rest, and quiet strength.
Learn in a way that feeds your practice.
What These Courses Offer
When clinicians learn through the body as well as the mind, something shifts. You return to your work with more presence, more range, and a renewed sense of why this work matters.
✔ Learning That Fits Your Life
Fully self-paced and hosted on Thinkific, so you can begin, pause, and return whenever the moment is right.
✔ Neurodiversity-Affirming Care
Approaches that honor each person's way of moving, sensing, and relating, rather than asking anyone to fit a single mold.
✔ Rooted in the Body-Mind
Every course reflects our belief that the body leads and the mind follows, offering a felt understanding you can carry into sessions.
✔ Trauma-Informed Throughout
Grounded in an understanding of how the body holds experience, with gentle, steadying tools for regulation and repair.
✔ Taught by Practicing Clinicians
These are not abstract lectures. They come from real clinical work with real people, shared by the team and guest faculty who live it.
✔ Care Across the Lifespan
From Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health to adult healing, the courses meet the full range of people you serve.
Our Approach
At Dancing Dialogue, our clinical philosophy is rooted in a single premise: the body is not a container for the mind's problems.
It is an active participant in healing. When anxiety has resisted cognitive interventions, when you can name the trigger, challenge the thought, and still feel the tremor in your hands, the body is telling you something that words have not yet reached. Our approach begins by listening.
We draw from Dance/Movement Therapy, Creative Arts Therapy, EMDR, and somatic, trauma-informed psychotherapy to create a treatment experience that is as individualized as the anxiety itself. No two nervous systems are alike, and no two treatment plans should be either. Some clients need the structured reprocessing that EMDR provides to unlock experiences held in the body for years. Others need the gentle, exploratory space of movement therapy to discover what their posture, breath, and gestures are communicating beneath conscious awareness. Many need both, woven together with clinical precision and deep relational attunement.
What unites every element of our approach is a commitment to embodied experience over intellectual understanding alone. We do not ask you to think your way to calm. We help you feel your way there, through direct, sensory, physical engagement that speaks the language your nervous system actually understands. This is not an alternative therapy. It is therapy that accounts for the full complexity of how human beings process and store stress, informed by decades of research in neuroscience, attachment theory, and somatic psychology.
For our clients in New York City, this approach carries particular relevance. Urban life produces a specific brand of chronic activation, overstimulation, relentless pace, compressed personal space, and performative self-regulation. Our therapists understand this landscape intimately and tailor their work to the realities of your environment. The goal is not to help you cope with anxiety. It is to help your body learn, at the deepest level, that it is allowed to stop bracing.
THE CLINICIANS BEHIND THE COURSES
Expertise You Can Lean On
These courses grow out of the clinical work our whole team shares. No single voice carries it alone, and that is by design.
Our library also welcomes trusted guest faculty who bring their own specialties to the work. And if you or a client ever needs specialized support, any member of our team is here to help. There is no single right door. You can begin with whoever feels like the right fit.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Each course is 1.5 credits toward your New York State LCAT, LCSW, LMHC, or LMSW.
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They are designed for mental health professionals, creative arts therapists, and allied clinicians who want to deepen their understanding of the body in clinical work. No dance or movement background is needed.
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Our CE courses are 100% online and fully self-paced. They are hosted on Thinkific and accessible on any device. You can enroll once and return to the material whenever you need it.
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Yes. Everything is on demand, so you can begin whenever you like, pause when life asks you to, and pick the work back up when you are ready.
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Not at all. Each course meets you where you are and invites you into a felt experience, gently, at your own pace.
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You can access our courses via this link to the Thinkific site.
Ready To Deepen Your Practice?
Wherever you are in your work, there is a course here to meet you, offered as a
source of strength, steadiness, and renewed care.