About Moving Through Trauma
Mission and vision
Moving Through Trauma is strongly socially committed and builds on the belief that everyone has the right to accessible and suitable support services. Moving Through Trauma aims to make mental health services more diverse and more inclusive. As a service, it pays specific attention to vulnerable individuals and groups, including survivors of gender-based violence, refugees and immigrants, and others.
Moving Through Trauma has several building blocks. The fundaments Esther’s work builds on are trauma theory and body-oriented therapy. In its approach, however, Moving Through Trauma is also feminist-oriented: all support and therapy services leave from both a personal and a socio-political perspective. In addition to recovery from trauma, anxiety or depression, working towards empowerment and community stands central. Moving Through Trauma supports others in finding their inner strength and increasing their resilience. Every person is seen from within the whole system in which they find themselves, and the broader issues, such as exclusion, inequality and poverty, that set the person’s context.
core-values
The combination of body-based experiential therapy and a feminist foundation is expressed through four elements that recur in all of Moving Through Trauma’s work:
(1) Moving Through Trauma always employs the body and experience – this experiential, non-verbal work is interactive and collaborative.
(2) Movement, creativity and learning through practice are central to the process of discovering and strengthening the relationship with the self, others and the world.
(3) Moving Through Trauma believes in the powerful regenerative capacity of humans. That is why we always work in the direction of empowerment and increasing resilience.
(4) Throughout the provision of trauma support and therapy, Moving Through Trauma promotes values in line with social justice, such as equality and inclusion.
get in touch
If you are a professional, either a mental health professional, yoga teacher, community worker, women’s or/and LGBTQ+ rights activist, global health researcher OR just any other commited and passionate individual that shares these same ideals and values, please do get in touch!
My strive to make healthcare diverse and inclusive, based on the assumption that mental health care should not be a luxury, is part of a shared fight for equality. I want to do everything I can to make (trauma) support and treatment accessible to everyone and that is something that I cannot do alone! Together we can share, build and work towards meaningful, lasting change.