DRAMATHERAPY
Dramatherapy is a means of support for emotional and mental well-being through creative techniques. People come to heal from emotional difficulties, relational difficulties, eating disorders and other mental health difficulties. People can also choose to come to dramatherapy for self-awareness and personal growth, often looking to nourish their sense of self and self-esteem.
Find Out MoreIn dramatherapy, the therapist draws on different techniques such as story-telling and story-making, puppet work, improvisation, rhythm-work, mask-making, visualisations, and sensory exercises. The client does not need to have prior experience of any drama work.
Dramatherapy is a form of psychotherapy. It can take place in one-to-one sessions or in groups. Clients do not need to have any previous experience of drama to engage in dramatherapy.
DRAMATHERAPY WITH ADULTS
Dramatherapy is as beneficial to adults as it is to children. Stories and creative techniques are used to allow you to discover and accept the deeper aspects of yourself in a safe way. By engaging body and psyche you can effect lasting changes where they maybe needed.
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DRAMATHERAPY WITH PEOPLE WITH EATING DISORDERS
Using a gentle approach, dramatherapy supports clients to work through deep and painful issues at the safe distance of talking about them through character, stories and myths. Through sensory and contact work, dramatherapy helps to restore a person’s relationship with their body in parallel with nourishing their self-esteem.
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WITH CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
WITH CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
Dramatherapy engages adolescents in a developmentally appropriate way, supporting them through action and creative methods. This allows them to feel safer to explore painful difficulties and deeper emotions, connecting with them where otherwise it might be too hard.
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MEET LOU GHIRLANDO
“I am a firm believer in the power of theatre to connect people and allow them to explore and experience themselves in different ways. Time and time again I have witnessed the way theatre allows people to be spontaneous and genuine. That is why I chose to hone in on this and specialise in dramatherapy bringing psychotherapeutic approaches to theatre techniques. I am a registered dramatherapist with the UK’s Health and Care Professions Council, and a registered psychotherapist with the Council for Professions Complementary to Medicine, Malta. I practise dramatherapy with organisations, schools and with private clients in Malta.”
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