Dramatherapy is a creative form of psychotherapy that uses metaphor, story, character and embodiment to explore and express difficult feelings your child might be struggling with. Using metaphor allows your child to work with feelings from a distance, giving perspective on a client's emotions and providing greater insight and understanding. Using metaphor and creativity will help your child to explore difficult material in a way that feels safer and less direct than traditional talk therapy. Using creativity allows your child a sense of accomplishment and ownership over the work and can even allow fun into the therapy room.

What is Dramatherapy?

How does it work?

As a Dramatherapist I use creativity in many different ways this includes story making, drawing, sculpting, small world toys and improvised play. This makes my approach well suited to younger children, adolescents or those who struggle to communicate verbally.

Dramatherapy works holistically, using the body as well as the mind in the therapeutic work. This lets me work with the embodied experience of difficult feelings to bring about a deeper sense of healing.

Dramatherapy can help provide better insight into your emotions and increase your child's ability to verbalise your feelings. It can increase resilience in young people and support your child in finding strategies to manage their feelings adaptively.

For more information on Dramatherapy visit https://www.badth.org.uk/dramatherapy/what-is-dramatherapy