Biography

Ana Coimbra Serra Oliveira was born in Lisbon. She is a clinical psychologist - Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon (UL, 1998), specialist of the Portuguese Psychologists Association in Clinical and Health Psychology and Psychotherapy.
Master in Sexology - Education and Sex Therapy, with a scholarship from the Institute of Sexology in.ci.sex, Madrid. (2013)
Dance Therapist Movement, graduated in Movement Analysis - Pedagogy and Psychotherapy, Institut für Bewegungsanalyse, Portugal / Switzerland (2010). Founding member of Praia - Associação Portuguesa de Dança Movimento Terapia (2015). Portuguese delegate and member of the Research Group of the European Association Dance Movement Therapy.
Doctoral student at the Faculty of Human Motricity - Dance specialty, UL. Research on Dance in Psycho-oncological Care in the Psycho-oncology consultation of the Portuguese League Against Cancer, since 2016.
She has a background in psychoanalysis - psychoanalytic / psychodynamic supervision and is an actual member of the Portuguese Psychoanalysis Society and candidate of the International Psychoanalytic Association.
She develops and collaborates in training or/and artistic workshops about Body, Movement and Psychology with students and professionals from different institutions: Faculty of Human Motricity; Teatro Experimental do Porto and Teatro D. Maria II, with Rui Pina Coelho; ISPA - Higher Institute of Applied Psychology; European Association Dance Movement Therapy; Praia – Portuguese Dance Movement Therapy Association; Portuguese Institute of Body Psychotherapy.



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Research Group: Dance Studies