I don’t usually stop to mark milestones publicly, but this one deserves a moment.

I’m delighted to share that I’ve been awarded the 2025/2026 New Researcher Award. 

Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy is the only international peer-reviewed journal focusing on the role of the body in its relationship with the mind in psychotherapy. It combines two close but distinctly different fields in inter and intra – disciplinary dialogue, namely dance movement psychotherapy and body psychotherapy. It publishes high quality research, theory and evidence-based clinical practice that follow the development of a wide range of methodologies, as well as new theoretical insights into the field of dance movement psychotherapy and body psychotherapy. The adjudicators selected my article, Body-Based Strategies for Urges to Binge Eat, and offered feedback that reflected a genuine engagement with both the clinical and theoretical dimensions of the work.

This work exists because binge eating is complex, embodied, and deeply misunderstood — and because the people living with it deserve more than willpower advice. Body-based strategies offer a nervous-system-informed path and having that innovative framework recognized feels deeply meaningful — not just for me, but for the direction this field is moving.

I’m deeply grateful for this recognition, and this award.