I am an HPCSA registered Arts Therapist (Drama Therapy), who offers creative, expressive online therapy and in-person therapy in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Individual Therapy
Online & In-Person Individual Therapy
My private practice is primarily online. However, I also offer a few in-person sessions in Johannesburg, South Africa (Bryanston and Ferndale).
Individual therapy offers a space in which clients can engage with and reflect on their experiences and patterns (behaviour, feeling, relationship) through embodied and creative means. This allows for insight, engaging different parts of self as part of building self-awareness and healing.
Group Therapy
Online & In-person Group Therapy
Alongside my online private practice, I also run drama therapy groups at a psychiatric recovery centre in Ferndale, Johannesburg.
Group Therapy offers clients a transformative healing experience through experiential drama therapeutic process, as well as witnessing and hearing others' stories and sharing their own. Group members benefit from multiple creative, relational experiences and perspectives.
Body Image
Areas of Focus
Anxiety & Depression
Personal narratives
Expat & Adjustment
Chronic Conditions
Bereavement
Identity
Burnout
Transitions (life stage, location, work)
Relationship & Family Dynamics
Existential
Meaning is a fundamental part of health and wellbeing. Meaning changes and develops throughout our lives as we, and our circumstances, shift. Drama Therapy offers unique practices to uncover, and make meaning from our experiences.
Somatic
It is through our bodies that we come into contact with life, have experiences and store memories (explicitly and implicitly). Our bodies are therefore central to the healing process - as patterns of behaviour, impulses and feeling are enacted through our bodies - and, as such, so is our healing.
Humanist
Drama Therapy is client-led, client-paced and underpinned by holistic humanist principles. Each person has the keys to their own healing inside them, and finding these - through a creative, authentic engagement with self - unlocks a greater capacity to self-actualise.
My Approach
Trauma-Informed
We understand so much more about how trauma impacts the nervous system and its responses when there is a perceived threat. During the therapy process, past traumas inevitably emerge. This is important for healing. However, equally important is to treat these stories (and the overwhelming bodily responses they illicit) with careful consideration to the clients needs and experiences in the moment. Trauma needs to be processed and addressed but safety is an important feature of this type of work.
Petronella D.
Focusing on my bodily experience in therapy was new to me, and it has been so valuable, and really deepened the therapeutic journey.
Jean H.
The group sessions always make me feel energised and connected. Things I hadn't felt in a long time before joining.
Happy clients
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