CMER
DMT PROGRAM FACULTY MEMBER
Paula Perlman LMFT,
BC-DMT, CLMA
Paula Perlman, is a CMER faculty member, a Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist (BC-DMT), a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT) and a Certified Laban Movement Analyst (CLMA). Paula is a member of American Dance Therapy Association, Dance and the Child International (daCi) and the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (CAMFT). She has been practicing Dance/Movement Therapy for the past 25 years and has been in movement education for 16 years.
Paula has worked as a facilitator of a Dance Therapy group for seniors and has taught Creative Movement with inner city children at a downtown Los Angeles art center since 2002 and has taught Creative Movement at a child-initiated private school since 1993, pre K-5th.
She expanded her studies of choreography at the University of California, Los Angeles, and dance/movement improvisation, “Logomotion,” with Simone Forti for six years. Additionally, she has twelve years experience as a participant in an Authentic Movement group. Paula has co-created a Professional Development program titled, “How to Use Movement in the Classroom to teach Art and the Curriculum K-5th.” She is planning on teaching her skills as a Dance/Movement Therapist and Creative Movement teacher in Peru to teachers and students. As an integration of her movement work she presently leads retreats for adults focusing on Creative Process, Creative Movement and Authentic Movement.
