About
Sara Owen is a fully accredited cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) therapist with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP), and a registered dance movement psychotherapist with The Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy UK (ADMP UK). Sara is also in the process of completing her training in eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy.
Her previous experience includes working with a range of mental health presentations in adult mental health settings (community and residential) and in child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS). She also has experience delivering dance movement psychotherapy in public and private schools to children with profound and multiple additional needs, individuals who are on the autism spectrum and children with behaviours that challenge.
Sara spent six months living and volunteering as a dance movement psychotherapist in India, where she ran therapy groups in various children's shelter homes and supported a charity in the development and implementation of its therapeutic provision.
In her work in special education, Sara ran both individual and group dance movement psychotherapy sessions, in addition to creative therapy sessions co-facilitated with music therapists and drama therapists. This approach was documented by Sara in a chapter in the book Essentials of Dance Movement Psychotherapy: International Perspectives on Theory, Research and Practice.
During her time in CAMHS, Sara was part of a team of therapists devising a CBT-based group intervention for young people struggling with anxiety.
Favouring a holistic and individualised approach, Sara is committed to developing strong therapeutic relationships with her clients so that each course of therapy is tailored to the needs of each individual.
Research interests
Chapter on non-verbal communication of empathy and attunement, published in Essentials of Dance Movement Psychotherapy: International Perspectives on Theory, Research and Practice.
Links to clinical articles/research papers
Chapter 12, I am here with you: Dance movement therapy and music therapy as a marriage of empathy in the special school setting, found in: Essentials of Dance Movement Psychotherapy | International Perspective.
Additional languages
- Welsh