Christine is Co-Director of and teaches the Foundation Training in Voice Movement Therapy, currently held on Martha's Vineyard, and supervises students and practitioners. Engaged in a quest for voice and psychological well being she trained with the Founder of VMT, Paul Newham, in 1996 before being invited to apprentice to him and subsequently teach with him prior to his retirement from this work. Voice Movement Therapy, as a discipline, encompasses voice, movement, theatre, the in-depth work of therapy and the recognition that to be creative is intrinsic to the human condition and can provide the means by which we are able to move past the confines of our individual story. Prior to training in VMT Christine took a degree in Cultural Studies at the University of East London, gained a Diploma as an Assertiveness Training Teacher with the Redwood Women's Organisation, undertook a two year training in Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychotherapy and studied with healer Trisha Mulholland for many years. She worked with homeless people for over ten years in central London, before moving into the field of mental health as a centre worker, counselor, group facilitator and trainer.
Christine is a singer and writer who has written and performed in political musicals, toured the UK and Europe with theatre groups and bands, and recorded as a pop singer. She has for the past fourteen years committed herself to an intensive exploration of VMT and to training new practitioners while she continues to experiment vocally and to write. Her current band is Salt Doll.
She is a member of the International Association for Voice Movement Therapy, of which she was a founding director.
She continues to sing, write and explore vocally, alongside teaching the training and other workshops. Her current CD, by her band SALT DOLL, is available from www.topplers.net/saltdoll
For more information see: www.myspace.com/christineisherwood