Exercise/ Movement Services
Therapeutic Movement Support®
Van Dusen Nutrition® has created and trademarked the unique service, Therapeutic Movement Support®. It is designed to help individuals who have developed a negative relationship with exercise reconnect to movement and their bodies in a more balanced way.
Therapeutic Movement Support® is for an individual who over-exercises, exercises in an obsessive or obligatory manner, exercises compulsively, is apprehensive about returning to exercise or avoids exercise. The program is also appropriate for eating disorder clients who are medically stable but need to limit movement. Therapeutic Movement Support® is an adjunct service where close communication with the client’s healthcare team is maintained.
How It Works
A client works one-on-one with a clinician discussing their relationship to movement/exercise both in and outside of the eating disorder. Clients engage a variety of movement types while processing related thoughts and physical feelings (neck up, neck down®) that arise in the moment. The client is guided to identify points (pause point®) in which the mind is shifting from engaged to disinterested or the body is shifting from warm to fatigued. The client is encouraged to then transition to another movement or finish moving for the time being.
The client practices listening to internal cues rather than relying on external sources such as numbers. Therapeutic Movement Support® builds a positive relationship with movement and provides a framework for integrating movement into overall life.
