Dramatherapy with Sarah Burns

What is Dramatherapy? 

Dramatherapy is a way to explore your inner world and emotions through the use of creativity and imagination to promote psychological change and healing.  It’s a way to express, externalise or embody feelings using verbal and non-verbal creative techniques such as:

• art
• imagery
• metaphor and symbols
• masks and puppets
• Mindfulness
• writing, poetry, story and myth
• music and movement
• sand tray and small world therapy
• play, theatre games and roleplay

Dramatherapy can help you to see what's troubling you more clearly, develop coping strategies, explore difficulties, play, connect, be more spontaneous and strengthen the creative parts of the self.

Dramatherapy is a creative arts psychotherapy and comes under the same umbrella as art, dance-movement and music therapy. Dramatherapists work with individuals and with groups and with people of all ages from cradle to grave.

Dramatherapists are qualified to MA level and are regulated by the Health and Care Professions Council.  

Do I have to be good at drama and acting?

The word 'drama' in Dramatherapy sometimes puts people off because they think it’s about acting and the sort of drama they might have done at school. This is not the case.

You don’t have to have done drama and you might not do any drama in your sessions - it’s more about exploring your internal dramas and finding ways to work with, understand and overcome these.

Play, theatre games and role play can sometimes be used in Dramatherapy, but only if that’s what you want to do. Often in one to one Dramatherapy, it is more about using creative methods to bring to light what cannot be seen on the inside. 

To learn more about Dramatherapy please visit the British Association of Dramatherapists website www.badth.org.uk

Seeking help and support can be a difficult step to take, but please feel free to contact me to find out more about what I offer and how we might work together. I look forward to hearing from you.