Dassie Hoffman
PhD, LCAT, ADTR
Co-Founding Director
New York Voice Dialogue Institute

Professional Affiliations and Certifications
* The Association of Humanistic Psychology
* The American Dance Therapy Association
* The American Psychological Association
* The American Mental Health Counselors Association
* Serves as the first president of the Saybrook Graduate School Alumni Association
* Serves on the board of directors of "Jacob’s Pillow"

Education and Experience  
Dr. Hoffman received a PhD in Humanistic Psychology from Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center. She received her Masters degree in Dance Therapy from New York University and her Bachelors degree from Bennington College. In 1993 Dr. Hoffman co-founded The Center for Experiential Psychotherapy in New York City. In 2005 she co-founded The New York Voice Dialogue Center where she teaches Voice Dialogue to mental health professional as well as maintains a private practice. In partnership with Ms. Dengel Gaspard, LMSW, designed and implemented a course called "Power Your Creativity Using Voice Dialogue" as well as Level I and Level II professional seminars introducing and teaching Voice Dialogue to mental health professionals for Continuing Education Credits (CECs) from the National Association of Social Workers and the Association of Humanistic Psychology in addition to serving as guest lecturer at the Jason Bennett Actor's Workshop incorporation Voice Dialogue into character building for actors. Before that she worked as a dance/movement therapist at Hall-Brooke Hospital in Connecticut, where she served as a clinical supervisor and trained dance/movement therapy interns from New York University.
Dr. Hoffman has been working within the Voice Dialogue community for the past 17 years. She is known throughout the international community for her innovative work integrating movement into Voice Dialogue sessions. She served as resident dance/movement therapist at the Voice Dialogue International “Summer Kamps” with Dr. Sidra Stone and Dr. Hal Stone from 1986-1994 in California. She is a senior staff member at Voice Dialogue International and frequently staffs advanced training workshops there.

Publications include her Saybrook dissertation, “Connections and Parallels Between Humanistic Psychology and Modern Dance at Jacob’s Pillow" published in 2004 by The Edwin Mellen Press, her article, “Sandor Ferenczi and the Origins of Humanistic Psychology” published in the fall 2003 issue of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and her article, “Integrating Dance/Movement into a Subpersonality/Voice Dialogue Session,” printed in Voice Dialogue International in 1995.

Dr. Hoffman presented "Voice Dialogue: Meet the Selves Who Eat" at the Fall 2005 Annual Conference sponsored by the Renfrew Center Foundation for Eating Disorders.