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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.

Wherever you are located in Illinois from Chicago to Zion or even Lindenhurst, or anywhere else nearby, 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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Jelena Bulic Milenovic
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As someone who grew up in unstable socio-political circumstances and as an immigrant, I have reinvented myself many times, and I can help you do the same. I am a fierce fighter for social justice and a supporter of oppressed people.


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As someone who grew up in unstable socio-political circumstances and as an immigrant, I have reinvented myself many times, and I can help you do the same. I am a fierce fighter for social justice and a supporter of oppressed people.

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I am a bilingual (English/Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian) therapist. I offer culturally informed therapy and acknowledge individual, intergenerational, historical, racial, and social trauma. These traumas are often at the root of modern human issues.

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  • Career Counseling
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We will understand what your goals are and what may be holding you back from achieving them. We will also develop a plan to learn new skills and stack your tool box which can help get you unstuck and start making the progress you want to see.


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We will understand what your goals are and what may be holding you back from achieving them. We will also develop a plan to learn new skills and stack your tool box which can help get you unstuck and start making the progress you want to see.

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I strive to provide a safe, supportive, honest, and empathic space for my clients. We will create an individualized plan based on your needs and goals. I am trained in several approaches that can create new insights about your thoughts and behaviors.

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build skills in navigating systemic oppression, identity, trauma, relationships, mental health issues, chronic pain and self-esteem. We will work towards empowerment through building self-awareness, compassion and nourishing the mind body connection.


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build skills in navigating systemic oppression, identity, trauma, relationships, mental health issues, chronic pain and self-esteem. We will work towards empowerment through building self-awareness, compassion and nourishing the mind body connection.

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I approach therapy through a non-pathologizing, trauma-informed, and harm reduction lens and understand that the client is the expert of their own experience. I view the clinical relationship as a tool for healing.

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Robin Denk
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be open and have sympathy to one another. I listen and provide a safe non judgmental space to share. We will process all of this together. In the breakdown,  we will find the humor, the hurt, the anxiety, the anger, the joy.


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be open and have sympathy to one another. I listen and provide a safe non judgmental space to share. We will process all of this together. In the breakdown,  we will find the humor, the hurt, the anxiety, the anger, the joy.

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My therapeutic approach is client centered, utilizing cognitive behavioral therapy, solution focused, narrative therapy, mindfulness, and attachment theory as tailored to your needs.

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I often work to help clients change their relationship with their emotions from one of avoidance to acceptance. Using an attachment lens, I see value in attending to emotional injuries while also attending to the influence of early experiences.


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I often work to help clients change their relationship with their emotions from one of avoidance to acceptance. Using an attachment lens, I see value in attending to emotional injuries while also attending to the influence of early experiences.

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I strive to be culturally responsive in my work, and place a great emphasis on developing a strong, authentic connection with my clients. I highly value flexibility and believe treatment should ultimately be adapted for each unique individual.

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