Meet The Board
Eve Chalom, BC-DMT
Eve Chalom is the current President and Treasurer of the Illinois Chapter of the American Dance Therapy Association. She is a board certified dance movement therapist and maintains a private practice in Chicago, working both in person and on telehealth. She also comes from a long career in figure skating, and works with several clients on ice, using a skating as therapy model. She received her master's in DMT from Pratt Institute, and undergraduate degrees in English and Philosophy from the University of Michigan. She has been a certified brain injury specialist, and a registered yoga instructor, in addition to performing in modern dance and figure skating, and having a competitive figure skating career where she competed in two world championships. She currently enjoys life with her dog, Rocket, and friends, and giving back to her community.
Isela Estrada, LCPC, R-DMT, PEL
Isela Estrada is the Multicultural and Diversity Board Member of the IL Chapter of the ADTA. She has her Masters in Counseling & Dance/Movement Therapy from Columbia College Chicago. Isela is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Registered D/MT, and Professional Educator with an endorsement in School Counseling.
For the past 27 years, she has been devoted to working in the Southwest Side of Chicago at various capacities: clinical mental health, substance abuse, schools, community based youth programming, behavioral health care coordination, and hospitals. These experiences, weaving between systems of care, inform and inspire her to see a new pathway for learning and healing.
Currently, Isela serves as a School Counselor where she embeds a dance/movement therapy approach within the educational Multi-Tiered, Multi-Domain System of Supports (MT-MDSS) to address the social and emotional needs of students, staff, families, and the community.