Deirdre BrownellDeirdre Brownell, BA, MA, daughter of Anne Brownell, has a great interest in Voice Movement Therapy. A singer as well as a scholar, she believes that music has a language all of its own that everyone can understand, if not in a cognitive sense, then n a spiritual as well as a psychosomatic sense."I believe that psychotherapy must have a physical as well as a mental and an emotional base. We carry our emotions in our bodies all our lives, more than we realize, and the only way to get them out is to go back to that primal infant and child stage and release them through sound and movement. The voice is very powerful - and everyone has something to say."Deirdre started with a BA degree in Sports Medicine, then followed that up with a Masters in Psychology. At this writing, she is completing her PhD in Imaginal Psychology at Meridian University in Petaluma, California. She is working on a dissertation about healing the loss of the embodied voice in people with learning differences through VMT and imaginal psychology. She has also worked in Early Intervention Programs in Massachusetts and Sports Medicine at colleges in California. She recently completed her first year of the training in Voice Movement Therapy, known as the Experiential Program, and served her combined PhD internship and qualifying practical work for VMT as an intern at Alta Du Toit Skool in South Africa from February to December 2013. Read More Read Less