Dramatherapy
Diana Driver
After a career in acting, Diana obtained an MA in Dramatherapy from the University of Roehampton and a Diploma in Creative Approaches to Supervision from the London Centre for Psychodrama. She is currently on the Certificate Programme in Traumatic Stress Studies.
Diana has worked as a dramatherapist in the UK and internationally across corporate, education and mental healthcare settings.
£60 per 1hr session.
What is Dramatherapy?
Dramatherapy is a creative psychological therapy. Sessions use images, objects, stories, movement and action as well as talking, to work safely through areas of difficulty and trauma. Dramatherapy is a powerful and creative treatment for the symptoms of anxiety, depression, burnout, traumatic stress, complex trauma and PTSD. Sessions encompass body, mind and soul and suit those looking for a holistic approach to recovery from psychological distress.
Dramatherapy introduces change at a level independent of cognitive processing. It creates access to and offers safe exploration of what is not possible to examine at a verbal level. Dramatherapy uses symbol, embodiment and action to safely access deeper, non-verbal parts of mental function. It applies neuroscience’s understanding of what van der Kolk in the treatment of trauma calls ‘somatic memory’ and facilitates direct communication with the limbic system in our brains, where our emotional life is housed and where our memories are formed.
Dramatherapy also offers a holistic approach to wellbeing and encompasses body, mind and soul.