Richard Coaten

Richard Coaten is a dancer and registered dance movement psychotherapist (RDMP) with the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy, where he was a Director on the Governing Council 2013–2016. He has spent the past 16 years working clinically as a DMP in an NHS older people’s psychiatric ward in West Yorkshire and in day centres. He is a national and international specialist in non-verbal, movement and dance-based practices with people living with dementia. He completed a doctoral thesis on dance movement psychotherapy and dementia from Roehampton University, and delivers workshops and conference presentations in Canada, the US and Europe, supporting the training of the next generation of DMPs. He has much published work to his credit and is on the editorial board of the peer-reviewed international journal Dementia. He also sits on the Board of the Creative Dementia Arts Network.