The Bodymind Approach™: Supporting People with Medically Unexplained Symptoms/Somatic Symptom Disorder

Fellow ADMP Reg is a dance movement psychotherapist who pioneered DMP in the UK, leading the professional association, the first postgraduate accredited training, research and publications. She works at the University of Hertfordshire examining, teaching and supervising doctoral candidates in embodied approaches to psychotherapy, counselling and mental health. She is trained in Laban movement analysis, person-centred counselling, group analysis and authentic movement, and works with children, adolescents and adults. She conducts research and examines doctoral-level students nationally and internationally. Professor Payne is the founding editorin-chief of the international peer-reviewed journal Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, published by Taylor and Francis. Trained in authentic movement since 1994, she has been facilitating circles as a form of group psychotherapy ever since. She is clinical manager for the University of Hertfordshire's Pathways2Wellbeing, which supports people in the NHS with persistent bodily symptoms for which tests and scans come back negative. She was honoured to have been invited to join the NHS England task force for medically unexplained symptoms. Her most recent publication is Essentials in dance movement psychotherapy: International perspectives on theory, research and practice, published in 2017 by Routledge.