Patrizia Pallaro holds a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Padua in Italy and an MA in Dance/Movement Therapy from UCLA. She was formerly director of a residential and day treatment program in San Francisco and faculty member at John F Kennedy University's Transpersonal and Holisitic Counseling Center in Oakland. She is widely published in the USA and Italy on Dance/Movement applications. A licensed psychotherapist and registered dance therapist, she is a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, the American Dance Therapy Association, the Italian Association of Psychologists, the Association of Women in Psychology, and the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology. She was President of the Northern California Chapter of the American Dance Therapy Association from 1994 to 1998.