Supervisor:
Board Certification in Dance/Movement Therapy
LCAT Licensure
Welcome- I'm glad you're here.
My name is Alexa Palmer (she/her/hers), founder and creator of Living Architecture.
I believe that supervision is a lifelong process, from schooling, training, and licensing to practicing for years or decades. Supervision, the container through which we process our clinical work with a mentor, can be enlivened and mirrored in many different environments and relationships.
My style as a supervisor is strengths based, trauma and polyvagal informed. Within my embodied and intellectual approach, I am a firm believer in the creative process, humor, and connection. If you choose to work with me, I will provide an open and challenging environment, one where my dog Fievel (pronounced 5 - L) often makes cameo appearances! Pets welcome in sessions.
Starting out as a new clinician can be overwhelming. Some of my students have said that in working with me at the beginning of their careers, "I can't imagine where I would be had I not had Alexa as my Supervisor. With tremendously felt intention and care, Alexa supported and nurtured my growth making known that she had my back and believed in me every step of the way. Through moments of self-doubt and internal friction, she created a supervisory space that both empowered me and challenged me to be self-reflective and constantly curious" (T.V first year dmt intern). Whether you are an RDMT working towards BCDMT hours or an LCAT- LP, working towards full licensure, I can support you through supervision and through the application process.
I have been consistently amazed at the key role movement, body awareness, and creativity, hold within the healing, educational, and introspective process- whatever that may look like. Through movement, we can find integration of all aspects of ourselves. I look forward to working with you.
~ Alexa
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Testimonials
TV, First Year DMT Intern
"Alexa endowed in me the invaluable ability to feel capable and safe enough to take important risks during my time as an intern that have been crucial to my development as a clinician, particularly for my self-confidence and resilience."
Stills by: Mischa Hiessboeck & B. Rich
MK, First Year DMT Intern
"On a personal level, I found her to be patient, welcoming, responsive and emotionally available towards me. For an international student like me, her cultural curiosity, openness and humility were reassuring.
Stills by: Mischa Hiessboeck & B. Rich
"Movement is, so to speak, living architecture - living in the sense of changing emplacements as well as changing cohesion. This architecture is created by human movements and is made up of pathways tracing shapes in space, and these we may call 'trace-forms'."
Quote from "The Language of Movement" by Rudolf Laban (p.5).