IACASE Global Webinar Series (6)

Dr Thania Acarón, PhD, BC-DMT, R-DMP, FHEA

Dr Thania Acarón is a dance movement therapist, researcher, lecturer and performer from Puerto Rico, currently based in Wales. She obtained her PhD on the role of dance in violence prevention at the University of Aberdeen and holds an MA in Dance Education from New York University. She is certified as a clinical supervisor and dance movement psychotherapist in the UK and US and has worked in this field for over 15 years. Thania currently works as a lecturer at the University of South Wales in the Faculty of Creative Industries. She offers international workshops on movement for wellbeing, therapeutic work with the LGBT+ community, embodied decision-making, physical theatre/contemporary dance, interdisciplinary therapeutic arts and violence prevention. www.thania.info; @thaniaacaron

Alison Wren BA Art for Community, MSc Art Therapy

Alison Wren is an integrative Art Psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer based in Scotland. She now works primarily in private practice, specialising in working affirmatively with clients around issues of sexuality, gender and relationship diversities. She has previously developed an award-winning mental health and wellbeing service for LGBT+ people that she delivered for 9 years, produced two educational films and published a creative writing anthology co-created with LGBT people with lived experience of mental ill health. www.arttherapywithalison.com