Margarethe Philipp, born in 1956, MD, is a specialist in neurology and psychiatry, a psychotherapist with a focus on depth psychology, and additional training in specialized psychotrauma therapy (DeGPT), PITT (Reddemann), and TRIMB. She is a founding member of the Working Group on Body-Oriented Methods in Psychotrauma Therapy (DeGPT).
During her continuing education in psychotherapy, she became acquainted with meditative dance and attended seminars with Ritu Bajracharya, Dimitris Barbaroussis, Ulli Bixa, Kyriakos Chamalidis, Drs. Hannelore and Ernst Eibach, Ulli Jobst-Brünsch, Krisana Kirchner, Bunu Shrestha, Eka Suschke, Prajwal Ratna Vajracharya, Dr. Maria-Gabriele Wosien, and other teachers and dancers.
By combining them with imagery, she adapted the dances for resource strengthening and therapeutic work.