“…Dance/movement therapists create a safe, holding environment in which clients feel safe to lower their defenses, enter a state of receptivity and absorption (Goodman & Holroyd, 1993), express unconscious thoughts, feelings, and emotions through free association in movement (Lucchi, 2018;Musicant, 1994Musicant, , 2001, and make meaning of the dance that unfolds. Defined as "the psychotherapeutic use of movement to promote emotional, social, cognitive and physical integration of the individual, for the purpose of improving health and well-being" (American Dance Therapy Association, 2014), the moving, dancing body is paramount in dance/movement therapy.…”