Presented by Aditi Subramaniam
This webinar will be presented live on October 1, 2025. Through the kindness of the presenter, a recording of the webinar will be available here following the presentation.
Today’s session will offer a journey in the integration of expressive arts/ dance movement psychotherapy as a window into ‘being with’ as a way to be in relationship based care with babies, young children and families in infant and early childhood mental health. Centering the Diversity Informed Tenets on elevating non-dominant ways of knowing, being and doing, the session will highlight clinical practice through storytelling and experiential activities.
Aditi Subramaniam, LMHC, R-DMT, IECMH-E®, is a licensed mental health clinician and registered dance movement psychotherapist with more than twenty years of experience in the field of mental health, in India and Boston. She works as the Director of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Policy, at the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MSPCC) leading statewide infant and early childhood mental health workforce development efforts and a partnership between MSPCC and the Massachusetts Association for Infant Mental Health (MassAIMH) focused on enhancing, diversifying, and supporting the infant and early childhood mental health workforce to improve access to services for children age birth – 6 and their families. Under her leadership, Ms. Subramaniam collaborates with partners across the state to address gaps and opportunities in workforce needs in the early childhood system to result in better outcomes for all.
Ms. Subramaniam is both a clinician at heart and a reflective systems leader, committed to justice-informed policy, implementation, and practice toward creating equitable systems to meet the needs of Massachusetts’ youngest children and their families. Her areas of interest include reflective practice; community and family-focused initiatives; workforce and systems development; healing-centered care; and the integration of the expressive arts in psychotherapy in working with families and systems.
She serves as a Newborn Behavioral Observation and Touchpoints National Trainer and is also a Zero To Three Academy Fellow, a certified DC 0-5 trainer, and is endorsed as an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Mentor- Clinical®.
The principles and practices of liberation and the arts as healing are foundational in her everyday work and lens. She currently lives in Boston, MA with her husband and daughter. She is a trained Indian classical and folk dancer and continues to enjoy dancing in community, yoga, and creating art. She is humbled by parenting and learning from the wonders of childhood with her daughter.