Anshuma Kshetrapal is a practicing Drama, Movement and Visual
Art psychotherapist. Her qualifications include an M.A. in Drama and Movement
Therapy from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK, a
certification of completion of a Foundation Course in Creative Arts Therapy
from SMART Bangalore, which is recognized by the International Dance Council,
Paris and a Masters in Psycho-social Clinical Studies from Ambedkar University,
Delhi.
Anshuma has been a trauma counselor and worked within that
capacity with adult mental health clients with a range of presenting
difficulties in hospitals, hospices and nursing homes in Delhi, Bangalore and
London, since the last 8 years.
Currently, she is one of the five national advisory board
members for Creativei Movement Therapy Association of India, looking to expand
and strengthen the creative arts therapy community. She is responsible for
heading the committee for introducing standardization and professionalism in
the field by making a code of ethics for CMTAI, for which she is running panels
and gathering data about the cultural ethical nuances of working as an arts
therapist in India.
She is also running groups and conducting workshops to introduce
the therapeutic aspect of the arts to fellow therapists, artists and educators.
She is a core faculty member for the certificate course from CMTAI, in Delhi,
Bangalore and Pune, involved in teaching and designing the course. She also has
a private practice in which she sees individual clients and supervises the work
of junior arts therapists in two clinics located in Delhi and Bangalore. Last
year, she organized and completed a pan India tour, over three months, in which
she gave several talks and experiential workshops along with her colleagues
from the UK throughout the country.
Previously, she was
working with MIND, a nationwide mental health charity in London, UK as a
consulting Dramatherapist seeing individual clients and running specialized
groups for clients with Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder.
She also worked as a drama and movement therapist in Ashiana, a
refuge for south Asian women who have suffered from domestic abuse, in London
which helped her conduct research that focused on the cultural aspects of
domestic violence and how drama and movement therapy can work with the body and
trauma in such cases, which is a subject close to her heart.
Since 2010 Anshuma has also consistently worked with children,
working with the Dil Se Campaign Delhi, Shishu Mandir and Winds of Change,
Bangalore and The Oakleigh School and TCE Schools, London wherein she has
worked with movement with touch and sound to do non verbal work with children
with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities or those on the autism
spectrum with behavioral difficulties.
Anshuma has always been passionate about the arts. She began her
dance training at the age of five and uses her training in Jazz, contemporary,
Bharatnatyam and Kathak within her work as a movement therapist. It was this
passion and her love for psychology that drove Anshuma to Drama and Movement
Therapy. Now, having been trained in psychoanalytic, CBT, humanistic
and Jungian analytical psychology, she has an eclectic approach to therapy in
which she uses talk therapy, drama techniques, movement exercises, dream work,
symbolism, myths, stories as well as visual art to work with the nexus of the
body and psyche.
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