There is vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost (Martha Graham, 1951).

Drama/Movement Therapy
“Drama-therapy is action-oriented, aiming toward not only insight and emotional maturation, but also practical change…Communication skills, interpersonal dynamics, and habitual responses are all actively examined in the drama therapy session. Change is not only envisioned but literally practised (Emunah, 1994).”

Drama/movement therapy allows the client to enter a play space where reality is suspended for a time so creativity may be sourced and used in action. By developing the capacity to ‘play’ the client is able to engage with and experiment with themselves, their life experiences, life themes and roles. Drama and movement become vehicles for the client to make meaning of their personal stories and s/he begins the journey of transformation and integration to the authentic and spontaneous person they really are.

Sandplay Therapy
“Central to sandplay is the idea that through playing in the sand, inner unconscious contents of the mind can be expressed and, thus are made conscious on a preverbal level of consciousness.”

Clients are invited to spontaneously choose symbols and create a sand image using those symbols (eg; people, coloured stones, shells, mythical creatures, bridges, houses, cars, vegetation). It may be a directed or non directed image depending on the context of the therapeutic session. The image may represent literal events, dreams, or stories. The creation of the image is multidimensional thus the experience of sandplay therapy involves, thinking, feeling, intuition and sensation.

Creative Art Therapy
“The art experience is one way to contact yourself through your senses…without trying to figure out why you are doing what you are doing…it can help you know yourself on the sensory level. Without trying you make sense (Janie Rhyne)”

Through creative expression the client is able to make use of their imaginative resources to access inner messages. Symbols, colour and form take shape through different mediums such as painting, clay sculpture, mask making and poetry writing. It is a kinetic process that is used to discover unknown aspects of the self and release feelings. While the completed product may offer insight by studying its symbolic meaning it is the creative process that offers the client another avenue of communication that often verbal therapy cannot.