Kim Burden, MA, LCMHC, LCAT, BC-DMT, RDT/BCT, CP
Affiliate faculty at Antioch University New England and completed the BodyMind Centering™ practitioner program with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen in 1994. She is interested in the interface of all the arts in the healing and growth process and is passionate about the power of play, improvisation, and spontaneity. She is currently investigating the application of African Shamanic practice for use in multimodal expressive arts and dance/movement therapy. Kim maintains a private practice in body-centered therapies and healing arts in Keene, NH, where she specializes in women’s issues, LGBTQ concerns, eating disorders, anxiety, identity and lifespan issues, and developmental disabilities. She has practiced Hatha and Kundalini Yoga for many years, plays tabla with a local Kirtan band, studies and performs classical and operatic vocal music, and loves contemporary hula hoop dance.

Danielle Fitzpatrick, MA, BC-DMT
Adjunct faculty member at Antioch University New England, as well as an alumna of the Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling Program. Having served the geriatric population for over 15 years, her primary focus is on the use of group dance/movement therapy to bring vitality and connection to those in the nursing home environment. Danielle has been exploring the potential for rhythmic, nonverbal communication to create a bridge to those with dementia. She delights in inspiring the joy of movement and creative dance with children of all ages and abilities in preschools, public schools, special education settings and the studio environment. In addition to her work as a dance/movement therapist, she is currently the Director of Young Arts at a nonprofit arts education center in Keene, NH.

Tomoyo Kawano, PhD, BC-DMT, NCC, LCAT is Program Director and Associate Professor in the Dance/Movement Therapy program at Antioch University New England. Her clinical and supervisory experience as a dance/movement therapist includes working with acute inpatient psychiatric adults, inner-city teenagers, immigrant children of refugees, teenage sex offenders, and victims of domestic/partner violence. She has two primary areas of research interests. One is dance epistemology: to better understand the potential for deeper knowledge discovery through the body and dance. Another is in diversity, inclusion, and power-oppression dynamics; focusing on formalizing their explication in the curricula. She is the faculty advisor for the Justice Leadership Council.

Alice Thayer Scudder, MFA, MA, BC-DMT, NCC
Adjunct faculty at Antioch University New England and senior counselor at Phoenix House, Keene, NH, facilitating growth with those diagnosed with co-occurring disorders. She has been working in the field of mental health for twenty years, employing the expressive arts as motivation for personal insight and change. Alice has been a practicing martial artist for thirty five years and allows this embodied wisdom to inform her work. She has a special interest in the role spirituality plays in mental health and is a student of archetypal pattern analysis. She especially enjoys supervising interns using expressive therapy to inspire new dimensions in thought and action.

Chevon Stewart ,BC-DMT, LCSW is teaching faculty and low residency Dance/Movement Therapy Certificate coordinator at Antioch University New England. She has worked  in community mental health, school based mental health, and forensic mental health settings in California and New York. She has also volunteered as a dance/movement therapist co-facilitating creative art therapy camp for survivors of sexual violence in Kenya. She is enjoys working across the life span with individuals who have experienced trauma.  She received the Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellowship through the Caribbean Cultural Center for the African Diaspora in 2017. Her research interests are the African Diaspora, trauma survivors, pedagogy, adolescents, and anti-oppressive practices. She currently enjoys the embodied research processes which include dancing, moving, and writing poetry.

Kara Serasis, MA, BC-DMT, LCMHC, CMA is an adjunct Faculty member at Antioch University New England and alumni of the Dance/Movement Therapy and Counseling program. Kara works at Monadnock Family Services on the adult outpatient team. Her focus has been on integrating embodied approaches from both the dance/movement therapy and counseling fields for working with trauma and fostering a therapeutic environment of healing and transformation. Kara served as a Kestenberg Movement Profile (KMP) research assistant as a student and has continued to explore applications of the KMP in clinical practice. She is presently being trained in the techniques of Brainspotting and hopes to become certified. Kara has enjoyed integrating this technique into her work as a dance/movement therapist and exploring the embodied wisdom that Brainspotting can help us to access.