KEDZIE PENFIELD

I have been working as a therapist for the past 30 years and currently have my own practice based in the New Town in Edinburgh. I am also a supervisor in the Counselling and Psychotherapy Department at Edinburgh University and supervise practitioners and students in counselling and arts therapies... I originally trained as a dance movement therapist in the USA, where I qualified as a movement analyst in the 1970s. I then moved to Scotland where I worked in the NHS and voluntary sector as a freelance staff trainer and consultant, and directed the first Laban Movement Analysis training program in Europe in Rotterdam, Holland... My work as a psychotherapist is grounded in the understanding that we need reflection time with another person in a confidential safe space. From this space we can find new perspective on ourselves in our lives. I have always been interested in how we manage, contain or experience our internal histories and external situations. Our.