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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 Shawnee, the suburbs of Shawnee, other nearby places such as Overland Park, Kansas City, or anywhere else in Kansas, 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.

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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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reflect, work, learn, laugh, and grow. We can process the past, problem-solve the present, and create a future you are excited to work towards. We will explore emotions, thoughts, and behaviors and the roles they play in your life.

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that it will be tailored to you as a client. My therapeutic style is collaborative and adaptive to your needs and goals. I offer a warm and nurturing space to work through the past, present, and future, offering validation and feedback along the way.

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My practice is primarily working with adults who experience anxiety, depression and challenges encountered in relationships. I am experienced working with clients who encounter challenges related to substance use in relationships and career.


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My practice is primarily working with adults who experience anxiety, depression and challenges encountered in relationships. I am experienced working with clients who encounter challenges related to substance use in relationships and career.

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My approach is to engage clients by first getting to know them and their needs. I practice by building a strong empathic connection and a safe space for you to explore, increase self-awareness and implement behavioral changes.

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process your experiences, explore your identities, and clarify your values. With this information, we'll develop a plan for you to learn new skills and practice new behaviors that help you write your story in your own words.


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process your experiences, explore your identities, and clarify your values. With this information, we'll develop a plan for you to learn new skills and practice new behaviors that help you write your story in your own words.

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I believe you're the expert on your own experiences and you're inherently capable of meeting your goals. I’m trained to work with folks using a variety of practical approaches to help you explore who you are and what's important to you.

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We will uncover knowledge & skills you have acquired from your lived experience (strengths) & apply them in achieving your goals. My approach is a mix of narrative therapy, mindfulness, somatic practices, polyvagal theory-based therapy, etc.


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We will uncover knowledge & skills you have acquired from your lived experience (strengths) & apply them in achieving your goals. My approach is a mix of narrative therapy, mindfulness, somatic practices, polyvagal theory-based therapy, etc.

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I guide clients on working with their autonomic nervous system, which is the base of our self-healing mechanism, rather than going against it. We would do embodying & mindfulness practices as well as talk therapy to bring about the life you hope for.

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Together, we'll nurture self-discovery with empathy, focus on the present for authenticity, confront life's questions for purpose, cultivate flexibility for growth, and heal trauma for resilience.


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Together, we'll nurture self-discovery with empathy, focus on the present for authenticity, confront life's questions for purpose, cultivate flexibility for growth, and heal trauma for resilience.

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I endeavor to give you the steering wheel, as you know where the tensions and barriers are. I want to meet with you as a full human being and harness that power toward creating new freedom. I want to encounter and clarify present challenges.

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