About
The Hyacinth Center is the private psychotherapy practice of Kim Burden, LCMHC, LCAT
and is devoted to providing mind-body-spirit psychotherapy to help you find and balance
yourself in today's hectic world. I provide a nurturing, serene environment within which
you will learn to utilize your natural positive qualities in service of your growth and
healing, offering a spectrum of approaches ranging from person-centered psychotherapy
to contemporary mind-body approaches. I am committed to collaborating with you as you set
goals, learn skills, grow, heal and practice ways to live a more balanced, satisfying life.
Hyacinth Center accepts many insurance plans. I hope this website will give you a glimpse
of the joy I experience accompanying others along their journeys to healing.
Client-centered, Strength-based Psychotherapy
Verbal counseling sessions help clients to identify strengths and build practical skills for understanding and expressing thoughts and feelings, and for creating options for coping with life stressors, relationships, work and other concerns. Current trends in neuroscience and mind-body studies inform this work, which is supported by many years of experience working with trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, life transitions, LGBTQ concerns, eating disorders and addictions.
Body-Centered Psychotherapy
Learn to appreciate and befriend your body and its wisdom. The body's messages have much
to teach about how we think, feel, and relate to others. You will learn and practice ways
to clearly align your thoughts, emotions, spirituality and actions. Sessions integrate
talking with building skills that incorporate breathing, meditation, yoga-based practices,
posture and mindfulness practice. Sessions also may include more in depth work to explore
and redirect various historical life patterns.
Expressive Arts Therapies
The expressive or creative arts, including collage, poetry, drawing, painting, music, sand tray and sculpture, along with dance/movement and drama, have deep, ancient roots in ceremony and culture; they have been used in personal and community expression for centuries. Using the arts in therapy can help immensely with identifying, accepting, expressing and shifting difficult feelings, handling challenging life changes, and gaining clarity about who you are and what you want in life.
Dance-Movement Therapy
A bridge between "traditional" and "alternative" approaches, d/mt is a powerful form of
psychotherapy based on the language of movement. It is considered a form of Complimentary
and Alternative Medicine by the National Institute of Health. Dance/movement therapists
integrate the dancer's special knowledge of the body, movement, and expression with the
skills of psychotherapy, counseling, and rehabilitation to help individuals with a wide
array of treatment needs. Move your insights and skills into action with dance/movement
therapy; become more empowered, feel stronger, more flexible, and more able to move freely
in the world—mentally, emotionally, spiritually and physically. This respectful,
collaborative approach allows you to begin where you are, and to use dance and movement
to safely support your growth, empowerment and healing. Sessions may include simple movement
structures, the creative/expressive use of movement, and Authentic Movement, a form of
movement based depth psychotherapy.
Drama Therapy and Psychodrama
We all have many stories and play many roles in life. Drama therapy and psychodrama use active storytelling, role play, role training and action exercises to help you expand your choices and options in all arenas of life. This kind of active practice takes insights from talk therapy and makes them real and applicable to "real life"—you have a chance to try on different ways of approaching historical and new situations. Skills for developing greater spontaneity and creativity through improvisational drama can also improve your confidence and self esteem. These powerful modalities can bring about insight and change quickly and profoundly.
About Kim
Kim Burden is a psychotherapist, dance/movement therapist, drama therapist, movement educator and Certified Practitioner of Body-Mind Centering®. She maintains a private practice in therapy and healing arts, in Keene, NH, and believes strongly in the power of creativity, joy, play and the arts for healing and transformation. Kim is a graduate of Antioch University New England's Graduate Dance/movement therapy and Counseling program and currently teaches and serves as Drama Therapy advisor in that program. Her work has been focused on integrating counseling, body-mind theory, movement, drama therapy, expressive arts, and spirituality. She has worked with adolescents, adults with cognitive and developmental delays, survivors of trauma and abuse, LGBTQ concerns, anxiety, depression and individuals with body image and eating concerns. Kim has worked with Acting Out, a local drama program for adolescents, Therapeutic Spiral International® and Granite Hills Behavioral consultants, and has presented at psychodrama, drama therapy and dance therapy conferences and workshops in the US and England. Kim has studied and collaborated with Mario Cossa, MA, RDT/MT, TEP, and with Kate Hudgins, PhD, TEP, the creator of the Therapeutic Spiral Model™ of psychodrama. She also studied with, and has been profoundly influenced by, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, creator of Body-Mind Centering, and the late Penny Lewis, PhD, ADTR, RDT/BCT, founder of Antioch's dance/movement therapy program.
