Training & Continuing Education

Dancing Dialogue is a preeminent training site for allied healthcare professionals in trauma-informed, embodied creative arts psychotherapy with diverse populations. Our courses and training programs are built on the foundational scholarship of Dr. Suzi Tortora and her Ways of Seeing Method. We offer a variety of brief and intensive training opportunities online and in-person at our Cold Spring and New York City offices.

Dancing Dialogue LCAT LMHC PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists #CAT-0066, licensed social workers #SW-0512 and licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0131.

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Ways Of Seeing
Ways Of Seeing

Our premier two-year online international training program: The Ways of Seeing International Training Program is a dyadic, trauma-informed, dance/ movement psychotherapy treatment modality that was developed through the research and clinical expertise of Dr. Suzi Tortora. Clinicians who complete the program join an international community of Ways of Seeing Practitioners.

Become a Ways of Seeing Practitioner

Continuing Education Courses
Continuing Education Courses

Dancing Dialogue LCAT LMHC PLLC is a New York State Continuing Education provider for licensed creative arts therapists, social workers and mental health counselors. We offer regular live online and live in-person courses as well as on-demand self-study courses on embodied creative arts psychotherapy with a wide variety of populations.

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Clinical Supervision
Clinical Supervision

We offer online individual and group clinical supervision for those interested in honing their skills or earning credentials as trauma-informed, creative arts psychotherapy.

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Lectures
Lectures

Dr. Tortora and all members of our staff frequently share our knowledge in the forms of classes, presentations, and lectures presented at universities, institutes, and conferences around the world.

Upcoming Lectures

Upcoming Programming

Live In-Person or Online Courses

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Disability Inclusion in Dance/ Movement Therapy
Disability Inclusion in Dance/ Movement Therapy
$120.00

In-Person Continuing Education Course, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Sunday, April 27, 2025, 10 AM- 1 PM ET

Earn 3 CEUs

Ways of Seeing International Webinar
Ways of Seeing International Webinar
from $1,200.00

Ways of Seeing International Training Program Webinar: A 2-year Postgraduate Training Program, Live Online Training Program

Suzi Tortora, Ed.D., BC-DMT, LCAT, LMHC, CMA

Curriculum and General Information

Self-Study Courses

Online Self-Study
Intro to Reiki and Psychotherapy
Intro to Reiki and Psychotherapy

Intro to Reiki and Psychotherapy

$70

Earn 2 New York State LCAT, LCSW, LMHC or LMSW Continuing Education Credits

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De-Escalate, Co-Regulate, Ground: 30 Trauma-Informed, Creative and Embodied Strategies for Dealing with Panicked, Dysregulated and Disassociating Clients.
De-Escalate, Co-Regulate, Ground: 30 Trauma-Informed, Creative and Embodied Strategies for Dealing with Panicked, Dysregulated and Disassociating Clients.

$70

Earn 2 New York State LCAT, LCSW, LMHC or LMSW Continuing Education Credits

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Dancing in the Virtual Space with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Dancing in the Virtual Space with Autism Spectrum Disorder

How can dance/ movement therapy support students with autism spectrum disorders and other special needs?

$52.50

Earn 1.5 New York State LCAT, LCSW, LMHC or LMSW Continuing Education Credits

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Dear Strong Black Women
Dear Strong Black Women

Using Movement to Break Free from the Binds of Oppression

$70

Earn 2 New York State LCAT, LCSW, LMHC or LMSW Continuing Education Credits

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Dancing to Mindfulness in the time of COVID
Dancing to Mindfulness in the time of COVID

$70

Earn 2 New York State LCAT, LCSW, LMHC or LMSW Continuing Education Credits

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Expressions of a Dying Traceform: A Dance/ Movement Therapy Approach to End of Life Support for Children
Expressions of a Dying Traceform: A Dance/ Movement Therapy Approach to End of Life Support for Children

$72

Earn 2 New York State LCAT, LCSW, LMHC or LMSW Continuing Education Credits

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Chronic Pain and Early Attachment — Dance/Movement Therapy Approaches to Healing
Chronic Pain and Early Attachment — Dance/Movement Therapy Approaches to Healing

$35

Earn 1 New York State LCAT, LCSW, LMHC or LMSW Continuing Education Credit

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"I'm Not an Artist" — Art Making Directives and Materials that Overcome Defensiveness and Stimulate Creativity
"I'm Not an Artist" — Art Making Directives and Materials that Overcome Defensiveness and Stimulate Creativity

$52

Earn 1.5 New York State LCAT, LCSW, LMHC or LMSW Continuing Education Credits

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Lectures

Wellness Workshops

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