Tuition fee €5,100 per semester
Registration fee €1,000 one-time

Registration Fee is non-refundable

More information

hochschule-heidelberg.de/..ovement-therapy 

Overview

Would you like to live out your passion for dancing and do good at the same time? Our programme will help you learn to enhance your patients’ body awareness and to use the healing effect of movement.

Programme structure

1. Semester
- Introduction to therapy sciences
- Introduction to dance therapy
- Psychology
- Dance movement therapy skills
- Clinical psychology I (psychotherapy approaches)

2. Semester
- Clinical psychology II (psychiatry, psychosomatics & psychotherapy)
- Neurology & quantitative research methods
- Movement observation and movement analysis
- Clinical Placement

3. Semester
- Evidence-based clinical practice
- Assessment & clinical practice with children and adolescents
- Body-oriented therapy & mindfulness
- Advanced placement (clinical or research)

4. Semester
- Professionalization, law & ethics
- Master’s thesis

Career opportunities

The scientific foundations and the methodological and professional skills gained on the Master’s programme in Dance Movement Therapy will enable you to work in a clinical, therapeutic or special needs context (e.g. in psychiatry, neurology, paediatrics or palliative care). You will also be able to pursue a career in research and work towards a doctorate.

Apply now! Winter semester 2025/26
This is a rolling intake - applications are accepted all year round.
Studies commence
1 Oct 2025
Apply now! Winter semester 2025/26
This is a rolling intake - applications are accepted all year round.
Studies commence
1 Oct 2025
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