What are the advantages of preparatory courses for a degree as a movement therapist / dance therapist?

Training as a movement therapist or dance therapist is aimed both at people who want to develop their artistic potential and at all people who work therapeutically with people and want to pass on their skills to others.

The most important advantages of training as a movement therapist / dance therapist are

  1. The courses are designed to be taken alongside work, so that they can be attended alongside your current job.
  2. No previous medical knowledge is required to join a course.
  3. The training has a modular structure and can be continued over several intermediate stages up to a federal qualification.
  4. The degrees are recognized by health insurance companies from a certain level and treatments can be billed via corresponding supplementary insurance (EMR, ASCA).
  5. In dance therapy training, cognitive, creative, intuitive, emotional, sensorimotor and psychomotor learning are equally important.
  6. The lecturers are experts in their field and are proficient in body movement and its forms of expression in a therapeutic context.
  7. Depending on the course and school, various association recognitions are possible after graduation, e.g. OdA ARTECURA - umbrella organization of Swiss professional associations for therapies with artistic media, VBK - Association of Swiss Educational Institutes for Art Therapy, BTD - Federal Association of Dance Therapists in Germany, EADMT - European Association Dance Movement Therapy.
  8. Parallel to the training, the participants also look at their own topics in supervision sessions, so that the training also contributes to their own further development.
  9. The federal qualification enables an entry in the federal professional register and ensures the long-term practice of the profession.
  10. Anyone who passes the federal higher professional examination can - regardless of the result - receive a refund of up to 50% of the total course fees.

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