Services are currently accessible for participants who are:
Private fee-paying participants
NDIS Self-managed and Plan-managed participants (Capacity Building – Improved daily living)
What is Drama Therapy
Drama Therapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses a range of drama, theatre and other arts-based approaches to support people to cope, manage and come to terms with aspects of their life. Dramatherapists are both clinicians and artists that draw on their knowledge of theatre and therapy to use as a medium for psychological therapy that involves a range of approaches including play, stories, puppets, props, small objects, movement, sound and art; to give people an opportunity to explore feelings, connect with others, problem-solve difficult situations and achieve personal goals.
The use of imagination, creativity and metaphor provides people with different ways of communicating, allowing more space for self expression.
Drama Therapy promotes, maintains and restores mental, physical, emotional and spiritual health
Drama Therapy enables children to achieve a sense of mastery, resilience, power and possibility.
Drama Therapy can help:
Increase imagination
Build resilience and confidence
Provide clarity to inner experiences and feelings
Improve social and emotional development
Progression of verbal and non-verbal communication skills
Support relationships
What is Play Therapy
Play therapy is a creative counselling method that uses play as the main mode of communication especially with children, and people whose speech capacity may be compromised, to determine and overcome psychosocial challenges. It optimises children’s abilities to express, explore and resolve troubling thoughts, feelings, experiences, worries and wishes in developmentally appropriate ways. It is a method that respects the culture of childhood and has a strong and diverse theory base that informs practice.
In play therapy, children can play out, literally and/or metaphorically, their inner and real life experiences in a way that builds insight and capacity. Play therapy allows children to express, regulate, communicate, practice and master new skills and their emotional responses.
Play Therapy can help:
Support growth and development
Support social integration
Decrease aggression
Improve emotional modulation
Develop social skills
Support trauma resolution
Sensorimotor development.