Individual therapy sessions provide support and a creative healing process to achieve your goals
Individual Therapy
Achieve Your Therapy Goals:
Make empowering life choices
Cope with anxiety, anger, fear and sadness
Address feeling “stuck” related to anxiety, depression, loss, body image, eating, identity, work, and relationships
Increase flexibility and spontaneity in daily life and relationships
Develop creative, arts-based techniques to cope with unhelpful thoughts and feelings
How We Will Get There:
Talk therapy to change thinking and behavior
Practice desired life roles with drama therapy techniques such as storytelling and role rehearsal
Engage imagination, mindfulness, guided imagery, and art-making practices to facilitate self exploration and self expression
Participate in structured improvisation to encourage change and promote spontaneity
What Is Drama Therapy?
“Drama therapy is an embodied practice that is active and experiential. This approach provides the context for participants to tell their stories, set goals and solve problems, express feelings, or achieve catharsis. Through drama, the depth and breadth of inner experience can be actively explored and interpersonal relationship skills can be enhanced.”
How Does Drama Therapy Work?
Whether you prefer to “just talk” or express yourself through creative outlets, drama therapy uses roles or “parts” to explore your inner world. Through this lens there are no “bad” roles since they all have a meaningful purpose. You will learn to understand and to move between roles based on your needs and circumstances to increase your coping skills and flexibility.
For example, you may experience conflict between your inner “fearful person” and “courageous one” and struggle to reconcile seemingly contradictory impulses or agendas. When you explore the origin and purpose of these roles and work on acceptance and appreciation of them, you experience self-compassion and relief. Perhaps you long to access your inner “wise person”, “lover”, “dreamer” or “magician”? To articulate and practice new inner roles also contributes to a sense of balance and well-being.