153. Terry Hyde Can a career in ballet harm?

Terry Hyde is a Psychotherapist/counsellor. Terry started dancing aged 6, gaining a
5 year scholarship to the RAD aged 10. He joined the Royal Ballet at age 18 and
subsequently joined London’s Festival Ballet as a soloist, playing roles such as, Dr
Coppelius in Coppelia, Sancho Panza in Don Quixote and The Headmistress in
Graduation Ball. Terry left the ballet world to explore other artistic genres, and
performed in musicals in London’s West End, in Film and TV.
On retiring from performing, Terry set up as a Business Manager for people in all
areas of the performing arts. On selling the business 15 years later, and inspired by
the realization that many of the people he’d worked with also sought his advice on
personal issues, he retrained as a psychotherapist attaining a Masters Degree in
Psychotherapy validated by Middlesex University in 2012.
Terry founded www.counsellingfordancers.com in 2017 and has been working to
support the unique needs of dancers in relation to their mental health ever since. In
2021 Terry created the Help4Dancers App and the Dancer’s Personal Development
Series of Ebooks and ecourses.
In 2021, Terry won the One Dance UK Dance Healthcare Practitioner Award and in
2022 was invited onto the advisory board of Pointe Magazine.
Terry presents interactive Mental Health Self-Care Workshops for Dancers, both in
person and virtually. These proactive workshops help support dancers’ mental
wellbeing, teaching them how to be mentally fit and emotionally strong.