Tina Stromsted Great Site 2024
About
Tina Stromsted, Ph.D., MFT, LPCC, BC-DMT, RSME/T is a Jungian Analyst, licensed psychotherapist, Registered Dance/Movement Therapist (BC-DMT), and a Registered Somatic/Movement Educator & Therapist (RSME/T) with a private practice and consultation in San Francisco, California. Tina Tina Tina Tina
With over four decades of clinical experience in hospitals, community mental health clinics, and private practice, she leads workshops in the U.S. and internationally. Her passion is in engaging creative methods for healing and growth, reclaiming body wisdom, in-dwelling with nature and community, and living a meaningful life. Her depth-oriented work engages verbal psychotherapy, trauma work, dreams, movement, Active Imagination, and other creative therapeutic modalities that facilitate healing, development and transformation.
Dr. Stromsted is the founding director of the Soul’s Body® Center, integrating Jungian Depth work, Somatics, and creative arts psychotherapies. She leads numerous workshops and webinars related to Authentic Movement, DreamDancing®, Embodied Alchemy®, and BodySoul® work.
Currently, she teaches in the Depth Psychology Doctoral Program with an emphasis in Somatics at Pacifica Graduate Institute, as a core faculty member in the Marion Woodman Foundation, and as an instructor at the San Francisco Jung Institute.
Dr. Stromsted was the co-founder and a core faculty member of the Authentic Movement Institute in Berkeley (1993-2004). She was also a founding faculty member of the Women’s Spirituality Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), a long time core faculty member of the Somatics Psychology program (CIIS), and adjunct faculty of the Somatics Doctoral Program at Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. She was a trainer in the Leadership Training program in the Marion Woodman Foundation and taught in the Expressive Arts Therapy Program at CIIS, Esalen Institute, Art Therapy Italiana in Bologna, Italy, and other universities and healing centers internationally.
Dr Stromsted’s numerous articles and book chapters explore the integration of body, brain, psyche and soul in clinical work. With a background in dance and theater, she has a special interest in the creative process, nature, attachment theory, community building, and embodied spirituality.
She is an analyst member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP).
Tina Stromsted – Authentic Movement Bodysoul
This month, Jung in the World is presenting a weekly series on Marion Woodman, Canadian mythopoetic author, poet, Jungian Analyst, and women’s movement figure.
In this episode, Patricia Martin interviews Tina Stromsted PhD, who was a student of Marion Woodman’s somatic therapy work. Over the years of studying and collaborating with Marion, the two became friends and colleagues. In this interview, Tina opens up about what it was like to work with Marion Woodman, offering rare insight into the practices Woodman developed to help people achieve wholeness, body and soul.
Marion Woodman’s Discovery with Tina Stromsted
Body work is soul work. Imagination is the bridge between body and soul. —Marion Woodman
Background and Contributions
My first contact with Marion Woodman’s work was in 1981, when I read The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and the Repressed Feminine, which, like a good deal of Marion’s writing, draws its title from classical literature.
Eight years later, I met Marion in person at a workshop she was leading through the San Francisco Jung Institute.
Since then I have studied with her as often as possible, participating in the Body Soul Rhythms intensive retreats she leads for women.
This article grew out of my dissertation research, in which I interviewed Marion and other leaders in the field about their personal experiences and work with women in transformative movement practices.
Marion’s early writings were followed by many other books, tracing the development of her work and ideas:
Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride; The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation; The Ravaged Bridegroom: Masculinity in Women; Conscious Femininity; Bone: Dying into Life; and five co-authored books: Leaving My Father’s House; Dancing in the Flames; Coming Home to Myself; The Forsaken Garden; and The Maiden King, co-authored with poet and men’s movement leader Robert Bly.
A Jungian analyst and internationally acclaimed author, lecturer, and workshop leader, Marion recently retired from her private practice in Toronto, Canada in order to focus on her health, writing, and teaching.
Marion’s work with the body is rooted in her own healing journey.
Cellular Resonance and the Sacred Feminine: Marion Woodman’s Story by Tina Stromsted