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If you’re dealing with internal struggles or conflicts, or are searching for an interactive outlet that can help you improve your life, drama therapy is a promising option to consider.

Drama therapy incorporates drama principles and activities, in addition to psychology and behavioral health techniques, to help you achieve mental health objectives.

It helps you to tap into your feelings, attitudes, and behaviors through theatre and drama-based activities. Drama therapy can include storytelling, improv, role-playing, and theater games. This is a good option for someone who is having difficulty articulating their stories, goals, feelings, and thoughts through talk therapy alone.

Whether you are located in downtown Martinez, the suburbs of Martinez, other nearby places such as Concord, Walnut Creek, or anywhere else in California, Mental Health Match can help you easily find an experienced therapist or counselor who best meets your needs.

Drama Therapy Benefits

Drama therapy is a proven approach. Here are some ways that drama therapy helps people:

  • Improved self-awareness and self-understanding.
  • Greater self confidence.
  • Healthy and effective interpersonal communication.
  • New coping skills.
  • More expression of emotions and feelings.

This is not an exhaustive list of drama therapy benefits.

If you are interested in learning more about Drama therapy and other forms of expressive art therapy, check out this article by Licensed Mental Health Counselor Jennifer Bishop.

Get Started with Drama Therapy Today!

A drama therapist or counselor can help tremendously, regardless of your creative skill level or social ability. And Mental Health Match is here to help you find a local therapist or counselor in minutes! Start by browsing experts below or by using our free therapist matching tool.

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Lan Nguyen
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Dismantle unhealthy thought patterns and self-sabotaging coping strategies, identify trauma and its effects, and learn/practice empowering tools to navigate complex problems and overcome painful pasts.


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Dismantle unhealthy thought patterns and self-sabotaging coping strategies, identify trauma and its effects, and learn/practice empowering tools to navigate complex problems and overcome painful pasts.

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I operate from a person centered and strengths based perspective so that each session is unique to you! I will validate, encourage, and challenge you to share your most authentic self with me on our journey towards greater healing and wholeness.

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  • Asian and Pacific Islander Issues
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Donika Brown
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Explore your strengths, local knowledge, and culture in a joint effort to help you live the life you want to live. With this information, I using challenging questions to explore and bring awareness to your thoughts and feelings.


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Explore your strengths, local knowledge, and culture in a joint effort to help you live the life you want to live. With this information, I using challenging questions to explore and bring awareness to your thoughts and feelings.

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I am trained in Narrative Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing. I utilize a combination of these modalities depending on my clients needs.

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Rosa Lizarraga
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Together we will explore your goals, thoughts, and behavior patterns. The process may entail revisiting your past, and upbringing, exploring ways to increase your well-being, and discovering ways to connect to joy.


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Together we will explore your goals, thoughts, and behavior patterns. The process may entail revisiting your past, and upbringing, exploring ways to increase your well-being, and discovering ways to connect to joy.

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I work collaboratively with you on developing self-discovery while providing a nurturing, supportive environment- loosening habituated patterns of avoidance, self-doubt, fear, and self-sabotage.

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Wendi Baptist-McGehee
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Seeking out mental health services can be overwhelming and scary at first. But it is my goal as a therapist to help my clients feel safe and to allow them to truly be themselves.


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Seeking out mental health services can be overwhelming and scary at first. But it is my goal as a therapist to help my clients feel safe and to allow them to truly be themselves.

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I bring to the table an eclectic psycho therapeutic approach utilizing evidenced based therapeutic interventions. I believe that you need to meet each individual that you are working with where they are, creating a safe and secure environment.

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Dina Bdaiwi
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We will deconstruct myths about you And replace them w/ truths! Remove value/stigma/judgment from your relationship with your body. Accepting and working with the body you have today. Learn how to (do no harm, but) take no shit! Inspire authenticity.


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We will deconstruct myths about you And replace them w/ truths! Remove value/stigma/judgment from your relationship with your body. Accepting and working with the body you have today. Learn how to (do no harm, but) take no shit! Inspire authenticity.

Something to know about my approach is:

Sometimes it's hard to be a human, to have a body, to deal with family, and to feel safe in relationships. I practice a blend of Narrative, Relational-Cultural, and Feminist Therapies. Context matters, language matters, identity matters.

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  • Acculturation Issues
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  • Alternative Relationships
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  • Domestic Abuse
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  • Emotion Dysregulation
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  • Empowerment
  • Ethical Non-Monogamy
  • Exploring Attachment Styles
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  • gender exploration
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  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • grief
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  • Queer Identity
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