Amy S. Vanderveer

Dance and Movement Therapist - MA, BC-DMT, LPC

Amy is a board-certified dance/movement therapist and licensed professional counselor. Amy’s
foundation for her clinical work originates from a client-centered and humanistic approach. She focuses on strengthening one’s awareness of the mind-body connection and increasing mindfulness of self in relationship to the world. Through her modality, Amy supports her clients to enhance their ability to cope with their environment, develop resiliency and find their own sense of perspective in life. With the integration of her creative arts background and client centered as well as humanistic approach, Amy provides a supportive, non-judgmental environment in which clients are supported to thrive.

Amy holds a Masters Degree in Creative Arts in Therapy, Concentration in Dance/Movement Therapy, from Drexel University. She holds a Bachelors in Psychology/Fine Arts with a concentration in Dance from Rider University. Her previous clinical experiences include working in a therapeutic nursery/partial hospitalization program for children who have experienced trauma. Amy has worked in outpatient and private practice settings in which she provides therapeutic services for children, adolescents, adults and families. Amy has provided case management, facilitated self-advocacy groups and led adaptive dance/movement groups for adults with special needs in a vocational rehabilitation setting. She also provided in-home/ community-based therapeutic services for children and their families. She received clinical experience in dance/movement therapy working within a residential treatment facility for adolescents, an adult in-patient unit, as well as a supervised visitation program in the family court system. Amy provided dance/movement therapy groups in an integrative arts & science summer program for children who were residing in shelters with their families. Amy developed adaptive dance/movement programs for children, adolescents & adults with special needs and mobility differences as well as senior citizens in studio settings. This included providing inclusive performance opportunities. As a teaching artist, she instructed adaptive dance/movement classes at an arts & music center, which provided grant-based outreach programs to support children and adolescents in school, community and residential settings.

In volunteer settings, Amy has led adaptive dance movement
groups, literacy groups and poetry groups for adolescents and adults. Amy is a member of the American Dance Therapy Association. Amy provides supervision for aspiring dance/movement therapists that are seeking board certification.