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Dr Penny Osborne is a registered dance movement psychotherapist, graduate psychologist, and academic with an integrative approach to therapy, supervision, teaching, and research. Drawing on person-centred, gestalt, embodied, behavioural, and creative approaches, to supports clients’ social, emotional, and psychological wellbeing. With over 20 years of experience, she has worked with adults, children, and adolescents in educational and residential contexts, outpatient services, addiction counselling, and online support for looked-after children, carers, and siblings. Her areas of expertise include trauma, anxiety, developmental disorders, chronic illness, and medically unexplained symptoms. Her research portfolio spans qualitative and quantitative methodologies, with particular interest in embodied psychology, phenomenology, and artistic inquiry. Her master’s research examined anxiety through contemplative skillsets and phenomenological analysis, while her doctoral thesis explored the experiences of therapists working online using expressive and creative techniques. She continues to focus on embodied and creative research methods, including autoethnography, poetic transcription, and phenomenological inquiry, with applications in disability, difference, trauma, life transitions, and health and social care. Alongside clinical and research practice, Penny lectures at Metanoia and Middlesex University. She has presented at doctoral seminars and academic conferences and is passionate about co-created meaning in therapy and research, integrating lived experience with embodied approaches to deepen understanding and practice