About Becca

I offer: Eco-Psychotherapy, Eco-Dance Movement, Earth Based Therapy, Environmental Arts Therapy, Eco Somatic Movement & Dance, Open Floor Movement Practice - ConsciousDance

My work explores physical encounters between the human body and the earth body while working with movement, soundscapes, ritual, performance, healing practices.

I have a deep love of the wild, feeling most at home amongst the granite, waters, moss and trees of Dartmoor. The workshops and classes I run are inspired by intensive study with Helen Poynor whom I’ve studied Environmental Movement with for the last twelve years. Other influences include studying with Suprapto Suryodarmo (Prapto), a Javanese movement artist, Northern Drum Shamanic. Practice, long term study of Somatic Movement, along with ongoing explorations in Butoh and artistic practice. I also love to play with music and sound, creating soundscapes for deep dancing journeys - I am an Open Floor Movement Facilitator and run classes and works in Devon.

I run an eco psychotherapy private practice in Devon including; Dartington, Dartmoor and Ashburton. I also work in Devon NHS Trust as a Dance Movement Psychotherapist and Environmental Arts Therapist alongside running groups and workshops for LGBTQ+ across the UK.

I am a fully qualified ADMP registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist (MA) Outdoor Nature Therapist (WIlderness Foundation) and Environmental Arts Therapist (SEAT). I am training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and have also trained with Gendered Intelligence to support my working alongside trans, gender diverse and questioning people.

As a queer, non-binary therapist I hold inclusivity as central to my work.

Publications: Becca Parkinson (2023) Eco dance movement psychotherapy (EDMP) and queer embodied kinship with the more than human world in Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17432979.2023.2256373?src=