Dance/Movement Therapy and Depression

“We start where the client is: alone, withdrawn, internally focused. This is where we have to begin -- in the place of despair and utter aloneness.“ ~ Joan Wittig, MS, BC-DMT, LCAT Joan Wittig, MS, BC-DMT, LCAT, began her career as a dance/movement therapist at Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center, where she worked in inpatient psychiatry for 6 ½ years before becoming the director of the Creative Arts Therapy Department. She left Woodhull to become the director of the Family Health and Support Center at Cumberland Diagnostic and Treatment Center, and eventually left Cumberland to take the position as director of the graduate dance therapy program at Pratt Institute, where she is also a tenured full professor. She also has a private practice in New York City. Joan was heavily involved in the passage of legislation that licenses creative arts therapy in New York State, serving as liaison from the New York Coalition of Creative Arts Therapies to the Joint Council for Mental He