Bonnie Meekums, PhD, UKCP reg. psychotherapist, RDMP, Hon Fellow ADMP UK is one of the pioneers of Dance Movement Psychotherapy in the UK, and is also a UKCP registered verbal psychotherapist. She is an active researcher, trainer and practitioner who has lectured worldwide and has written extensively on the topics of kinaesthetic empathy and movement metaphors, including two books, Creative Group Therapy for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (2000, Jessica Kingsley) and Dance Movement Therapy: a Creative Psychotherapeutic Approach (2002, Sage). Bonnie is programme leader for the MA Psychotherapy and Counselling at the University of Leeds, where she brings an awareness of the embodied relationship to the training. Her journal work includes the roles of Symposium Co-Editor for the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling and Associate Editor for Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy.