ILENE SERLIN, PhD, BC-DMT
Ilene A. Serlin, Ph.D, BC-DMT, Phi Beta Kappa, licensed psychologist and registered dance/movement therapist in practice in San Francisco and Marin county, teaches and trains in the US and internationally. She is the past president of the San Francisco Psychological Association, Fellow of the American Psychological Association, past president of the Division of Humanistic Psychology, Associated Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, taught at Saybrook University, Lesley University, UCLA, NY Gestalt Institute and C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. Editor of Whole Person Healthcare (2007, 3 vol., Praeger), Integrative Care for the Traumatized (2019), over 100 chapters and articles on body, art and psychotherapy, on the editorial boards of PsycCritiques, American Dance Therapy Journal, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Arts & Health: An International Journal of Research, Policy and Practice, Journal of Applied Arts and Health, International Journal: Creative Arts Education and Therapy, and The Humanistic Psychologist. She has received the Rollo May award from APA’s Society for Humanistic Studies, the Eleanor Criswell Hanna Award Celebrating Women in Humanistic Psychology, the California Psychological Association Distinguished Humanitarian Contribution award, and the Marian Chace award from the American Dance Therapy Association. She is currently Co-Chair of APA’s Presidential Task Force on Culturally Informed Trauma and Grief Recovery.
Lisbon 2023
(Watercolor, 5"x7")
In March 2023 I was invited by a group of Gestalt Therapists in Lisbon to train social caregivers who work with refugees in ways to bring culturally sensitive movement into their clinical work with trauma. The training was sponsored by a grant from the EDI committee of the American Embassy. The program, called Heal in Motion: Trauma-Processing and Social Integration of Refugees Through Dance Movement Therapy Work. The caregivers are providing psychosocial services to refugees from refugees from Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, Gambia, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Senegal and the Congo.