Movement in Practice is Changing
Since 2017, Movement in Practice has been home to an extraordinary community of trainees, facilitators, and practitioners exploring the psychology of movement in real-world settings.
Over the years, we’ve worked with people across education, healthcare, business, and wellbeing — using movement to support thinking, emotion, connection, and mental health. It has been a privilege to learn alongside such thoughtful, committed, and creative professionals.
As the work has evolved, so has its home.
Where to go now
All courses and learning programmes focused on the Psychology of Movement are now delivered through the Doctor Dance Academy:
Our dance-based mental wellbeing programmes, including
The Move-Assure Dance for Mental Wellbeing Programme, and Move-Assure Mental Wellbeing Coach Training, continue at:
For private mental health therapy and psychological support with Lindsey Lovatt, please visit:
Movement in Practice Founders
Movement in Practice was founded by Lindsey Lovatt and Peter Lovatt.
Lindsey Lovatt
Lindsey Lovatt is a qualified Occupational Therapist with an MSc in Forensic Mental Health, and postgraduate qualifications in Systemic & Family Therapy, Dramatherapy, Eating Disorders, and Parenting. Specialising in CAMHS Lindsey has worked for the NHS as a leader in mental health services. With senior management roles, including Allied Health Professionals Lead for a large NHS Trust and being a specialist advisor for the UK Government’s Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Peter Lovatt
Peter Lovatt is a former professional dancer. He’s a qualified psychologist, with a PhD in Cognitive Psychology, an MSc in Neural Computation and a BSc in Psychology and English. Peter spent over 25 years teaching at universities and carrying out research in psychology, movement and dance. Peter’s academic and teaching career extends from the University of Cambridge to the Royal Ballet School in London. Peter has written two books on movement and dance (The Dance Cure, 2020 & Dance Psychology 2018) and has he published peer-reviewed academic papers on thinking, learning, problem-solving, memory, Parkinson’s disease, dance, rhythm and timing.
