Empower yourself through Psychodrama
This therapy uses guided dramatic actions and is used with groups, couples or clients on a one to one basis.
"Become more creative and spontaneous."
Romanian born Jacob Levy Moreno MD (a man with a great story) developed psychodrama in the early 1900s in Vienna, as a vehicle that’s one step beyond psychotherapy, before moving to New York in 1925 to expand it further.
He set up an improvisational theatre company to help people act out past, present and future situations and equip themselves with healthier responses to potential future difficulties. In turn, they also become more creative and spontaneous with autonomy over their lives.
This work is experiential. This means the therapy is more rounded. Where psychoanalysis could be described as talking therapy and can be heady and intellectual, psychodrama is ‘doing’ via action, hence the client experiences the change that is possible in their lives in a more visceral way. So we could say it’s instinctive in body as well as allowing for the cognitive shift too. Making it a very empowering therapy for clients.
I would add to that and say integrative psychotherapy is a blend of both.
Though it’s dynamic in nature, it can be used in a gentle way so as not to overwhelm you as the client or the participants of the group
Safety
The space is set up with rules everybody agrees to before the action begins to enable the participant to take healthy risks in a supportive environment
Consent
The client or participants will be invited to partake in a role play and consent if they are comfortable in doing so. The therapist will guide the action, to where the client feels comfortable and agrees to.
Care
The therapist and/ or group demonstrates an empathetic approach which is supportive to the client’s therapeutic process and well-being.
Before I became a psychotherapist I was (and still am) an actor.
So this work is in my bones and very close to my heart.
Whist at drama school I based my dissertation on the value of drama based workshops for therapeutic purposes and collated my research from three projects I devised and delivered. One in in a women’s bail hostel, another in a recovery centre for alcohol and drug addiction and one at a secondary school in Switzerland for the under eighteens where drama had previously been low on their agenda.
It proved to be incredibly beneficial to all groups and that’s where my curiosity in psychotherapy began.
Well for real people at least. It was always there for fictitious characters, hence me being an actor in the first place. With my fascination for the human condition.
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