Christine Isherwood

Christine Isherwood M.A., VMTR (Registered Voice Movement Therapist) directs and teaches the Voice Movement Therapy Training Program, works with individual clients, conducts workshops and trainings internationally, and supervises VMT students and practitioners. She has been engaged in teaching Voice Movement Therapy internationally for more than twenty years: in the UK, the USA, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Engaged in a quest for voice and psychological well-being she trained with the founder of VMT, Paul Newham, in London in the mid 1990s and subsequently taught with him prior to his retirement from this work. In partnership with Anne Brownell, she established, co-directs and co-teaches the USA Training in Voice Movement Therapy. Christine founded the first Voice Movement Therapy Training Program in Beijing, China, and Shenzhen, China, under the auspices of The Apollo Institute, dedicated to the training and development of VMT practitioners in China. She has an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counselling from Goddard College, Vermont, USA, and holds a Certificate in Traumatic Stress Studies through the Trauma Center in Brookline, MA, USA. Before training in VMT, Christine took a degree in Cultural Studies at the University of East London, UK; gained a Diploma as an Assertiveness Training Teacher with the Redwood Women’s Training Organisation; undertook a two year training in Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychotherapy; and studied therapeutic healing with noted eclectic healers. She has over thirty-five years experience working with people, including extensive experience with street homeless people in Central London; as a mental health counsellor in the fields of addiction, domestic abuse, sexuality, and gender; as a group facilitator and trainer; and as a VMT practitioner and trainer with those seeking to transform their personal or professional selves through the voice. She is a founding director and member of the International Association for Voice Movement Therapy. Christine is a singer and writer who has written and performed in political musicals, toured the UK and Europe with theatre groups and bands, and has recorded several albums as well as performing internationally. She has lectured and taught at Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts (LIPA); the Western Australian Academy for Performing Arts (WAAPA); is adjunct faculty at the Creative Integrative Expressive Arts Therapy Training Program at the CREATE Institute, Toronto, Canada; and teaches at Apollo Education and Consulting, Beijing, China. Christine continues to commit herself to an intensive exploration of VMT and continues to explore vocally, to write, and to learn and has completed performance studies in the USA and abroad. She lives in New York City.