For People Seeking Help
I’m looking for therapy
Explore how drama therapy works, what it can help with, and how to find a registered therapist near you.
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Come back
to your body.
To your story.
Drama therapy is embodied, creative, and human, the antidote to a world that keeps us in our heads and on our screens. Resources for every person drama therapy serves.
Where would you like to start?
Drama therapy is for everyone.
Choose who you are, each path leads to exactly the right resources.
For Practicing Therapists
I practice drama therapy
Evidence-based techniques, clinical exercises, practitioner books, and professional development resources.
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For Therapists in Training
I’m working toward the RDT
Understand the certification path, find accredited programs, learn supervision requirements, and plan your career.
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For Students & Clinicians-in-Training
I study psychology
You’re training as a clinician, researcher, or student and want drama therapy in your toolkit. Start here for the plain-language introduction.
Learn the basics
Want to start therapy from home?
Online-Therapy.com is a structured online therapy platform combining CBT with worksheets, journals, and video sessions with licensed therapists. A useful bridge while you search for a local drama therapist, typically active within 48 hours of signup.
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If you’re deciding where to start
Talk therapy and drama therapy, side by side
Both help. They work through different doors. Here’s what each actually feels like as a client.
| Dimension | Talk therapy | Drama therapy |
|---|---|---|
| What you’ll do in session | Sit across from your therapist and talk about what’s going on. | Talk, yes. Also move, play a role, use a prop, sculpt a scene. You do more than describe. |
| What you bring | Words for your experience. | Your body, your imagination, and whatever you don’t yet have words for. |
| When it fits | You want to understand, name, and reflect on your patterns. | You’ve done the talking and something is still stuck. Or words feel too small for what you’re carrying. |
| Format & length | Usually weekly, 50 minutes. Individual or couples. | Weekly, 50 minutes for individual. Groups and couples often run 60–90 minutes. Group work is common — sometimes the whole point. |
| What leaves with you | Clarity. New language for what you’re feeling. | A felt shift. A moment you can remember in your body, not just your head. |
60+
Years of clinical research and practice
2,000+
Registered Drama Therapists in North America
30+
Accredited graduate training programs worldwide
50+
Countries with active drama therapy practitioners
Who it helps
Across the lifespan. Across presentations.
Drama therapy meets people where they are, from a child with puppets to a veteran who has no words for what happened.
Trauma & PTSD
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Anxiety
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Depression
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Children
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Autism
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Grief & bereavement
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Addiction & recovery
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Veterans & first responders
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Older adults & dementia
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Eating disorders
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From the field
“The body keeps the score. Trauma lives not in words but in sensations, impulses, and movement. Embodied therapies like drama therapy offer what talking alone cannot.”
Bessel van der Kolk — The Body Keeps the Score
Not sure if drama therapy is right for you?
Is it right for me?
Our plain-language guide covers what actually happens in a session, who benefits most, and what to do if you feel self-conscious about the idea of “acting.”