Louise Yocum was a professional dancer in New York from 1933 to 1942, who in 1966 became one of California's first ten registered Dance Therapists and a Charter Member of the American Dance Therapy Association. An ordained minister of the Unity and Diversity Church, she promoted the use of Sacred Dance in the worship service. She trained extensively with dance therapy pioneers Trudi Schoop, Jeri Salkin, and Mary Whitehouse, becoming Schoop's apprentice-assistant in controlled experiments at Camarillo State Hospital and was one of the first graduates of Schoop's intensive teacher's course, which included working with patients at Rest Haven Psychiatric Hospital in Los Angeles.

Frequent speaker, workshop presenter and retreat master, Yocum used movement as a healing tool. For over thirty years, she taught Dance Therapy, T'ai Chi Ch'uan, Scientific Swedish Massage, Acu-Pressure, and Yocum Yoga in private practice in many locations, including Patterns of Energy Studio (Burbank), Everywoman's Village (Van Nuys), Brand Park Art Studios (Glendale), Philosophical Research Society (Hollywood), Friendly Hills (Hemet) and other educational facilities. She worked with many doctors and psychologists including Dr. Evert G. Loomis M.D. ( Friendly Hills) Dr. William Orman (psychologist, USC), J. Stanley White (psychologist, Cypress College) Dr. Lloyd W. Fellows, Jr. (psychology professor, Cal Lutheran College) Dr. Morrie Jacobson (psychology teacher, Pierce Junior College) Dr. Stewart Shapiro (psychologist, Esalen Institute and University of California, Lake Arrowhead) Dr. Everette Shostrum (psychologist) Dr. Ashley Montague (anthropologist) and Dr. Nora Weckler (psychologist, Cal State Northridge). Yocum was a Presenter at the A.D.T.A. 10 th Annual Conference in October 1975 at Asilamar, and at the 1987 A.D.T.A. National Conference on the Queen Mary in Long Beach.

Yocum moved to Burbank from the East Coast in 1945, creating The Yocum Dance Studio in Burbank and serving ten years as choreographer, actor and as a member of the Board of Directors for the Burbank Little Theatre. Completing internships in non verbal communication at The White Research Center in Hollywood under Andrew White, Ph.D and K. Alexandra White and trained with Charlotte Selver, who chose Yocum as her substitute teacher in Los Angeles. Yocum also attended on going training in T'ai Chi Chu'an with Marshall Ho'o and Master Tung Fu'Ling of Hong Kong. She became the assistant demonstrating and leading T'ai Chi classes in Hollywood. She graduated as instructor from the Los Angeles School of Message and Therapy, became Director of Movement at the Actor's Studio in Hollywood, served as Staff Member of the International Cooperation Council in the Valley, and volunteered time at the Sunaire Asthmatic Home for Children in Sunland.

Yocum has been interviewed on television programs, including Gallery, KTLA Channel 5, Alive And Well, U.S.A National Cable Channel, Channel 7 Special Report (KABC), Noon Time , KNXT Channel 2, and Nine In The Morning , KHJ Channel 9. Many newspaper and magazine articles have been written about her work, including the 1973 Feminine Fitness Magazine October issue, The T'ai Chi Mystique.

At 88 years young in 2005, Yocum continues to teach one class at the Japanese Tea House at Brand Library in Glendale, as much for her own benefit as that of her students, some of whom have been with her 20 years.