Talk therapy isn’t enough. Let me show you why
Individual Psychotherapy
(Adults, adolescents, children)
Working from psychodynamic, relational and creative lens I will meet where you’re at in order to co-create a space of trust and acceptance.
We will weave together talk therapy and creative techniques to access new avenues through which you may tell your own stories, express your feelings, and explore the depth of your inner experience allowing for growth and the capacity to play a diverse range of life roles.
Experiential and Drama Therapy Groups
Group Therapy is a form of psychotherapy where several people meet regularly to share their struggles with guidance from a therapist.
I run several different types of groups both short term and long term all from a creative and experiential lens most using drama therapy techniques. Drama therapy is the intentional use of drama and/or theater processes to achieve therapeutic goals. Drama therapy is an embodied practice that is active and experiential. This approach can provide the context for participants to tell their stories, set goals and solve problems, express feelings, or achieve catharsis (NADTA).
Psychodrama Groups
Psychodrama — meaning “psyche in action” — helps us explore our inner and outer worlds in action. Since our experiences are held not just in our minds but in our bodies, working psychodramatically, through action, helps us discover new creative pathways for growth in the here and now by showing us rather than telling us. (ASGPP).
Neuropsychology shows how trauma can be worked through and shifted using embodied practices. Psychodrama has the capacity to reconstruct people's internal maps of their relationship to themselves and the world around them.
When words are not enough, creative and dramatic tools can help us access the often deeply hidden parts of our lives. This form of therapy is for anyone who wants to work through trauma, discover new ways of self expression, or simply know themselves better.
As a psychotherapist with an expertise in trauma informed work, I use the creative arts therapies to achieve the therapeutic goals of self-expression, personal empowerment, and emotional and physical integration. With over 15 years of experience, I offer individual, and group therapy, intentionally combining talk therapy, drama therapy, psychodrama and the creative arts to address emotional issues in innovative, unique ways. My approach allows individuals to discover ways to tell their own stories, express their feelings, in order to imagine new possibilities for growth.
This is for you if:
you are ready to find some reliefyou know your stories live in your body and you want to access themyour are ready to retire roles that now longer serve you
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Individual Psychotherapy
Weekly Sessions | Currently all sessions are being held virtually.
Working from psychodynamic, relational and creative lens I will meet where you’re at in order to co-create a space of trust and acceptance. We will weave together talk therapy and creative techniques to access new avenues through which you may tell your own stories, express your feelings, and explore the depth of your inner experience allowing for growth and the capacity to play a diverse range of life roles.
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“Imagination is absolutely critical to the quality of our lives… Trauma is a failure of the imagination. Without imagination there is no hope, no chance to envision a better future, no place to go, no goal to reach.”
Current Therapy Groups
Group Therapy is a form of psychotherapy. Unlike in an individual several people meet regularly to share their struggles with guidance from a therapist. Although many people initially feel intimidated by the idea of sharing what’s going on in their lives with a group of strangers, research shows working on challenges in this setting is highly effective and rewarding.
I run several different types of groups both short term and long term.
8 Week Drama Therapy/ Psychodrama Group
THIS GROUP IS FORMING NOW!
CONTACT ME FOR INITIAL INTERVIEW AND MORE INFO
This group will be co-led by Cecilia Dintino, PsyD, RDT and Heidi Landis, LCAT, RDT/BCT, TEP
Join us for this 8-week, in-person group that uses the techniques of drama therapy and psychodrama to facilitate a playful, expansive and healing exploration of the roles we play and the stories we live. This group aims to foster self-awareness, aliveness and a deepening connection to ourselves and with each other.
Session 1: Connecting with self and the group
Session 2: Inviting spontaneity, aliveness in the moment
Session 3: Role Call: roles we play and roles we long to play
Session 4 Facing the OBSTACLE: What's in the way is the way
Session 5: Whose story lives deep within you? Our ancestral journey
Session 6:Our collective story
Session 7:Where the wise one lives
Session 8*Future Projection: What's next?
*no previous drama experience necessary
INTERVIEW REQUIRED.
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Psychodrama Groups
Fall 2022 Groups Forming Now: Dates TBA | Online and In-Person
These groups use the action technique of psychodrama to explore the your experience in a multi-dimensional way. Allowing for unprocessed experiences and unexpressed feelings to find a voice, these groups will help you challenge old patterns by practicing, in action, new ways of being.
Although it might seems scary to do this type of embodied work, the co-created process is powerful. Psychodrama uses various forms of enactment to expand and deepen the purely verbal method of therapy. Because psychodrama connects the body, mind, and emotions, it can be more powerful than traditional talk therapy alone.
More about Psychodrama Groups
A typical psychodrama session consists of three phases:
Warm-up: The director or therapist leads the group through a series of experiences to help members become comfortable with one another, explore their connections to each other, identify a theme to explore, and prepare themselves for an enactment. A protagonist (person whose story will be enacted) is chosen, or a decision is made to enact a group story (called a sociodrama).
Action: The director leads the protagonist through a series of scenes to enact his or her story. Group members are asked to play the role of significant others needed for the enactment. Members taking such roles are called “auxiliary egos” or “auxiliaries.”
Sharing: Participations are invited to share with the protagonist how the enactment touched them personally.
Benefits
Increase in Creativity and Spontaneity
Feeling of connection with others
Mind body connections.
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My Background
As a psychotherapist with an expertise in trauma informed work, I use the creative arts therapies to achieve the therapeutic goals of self-expression, personal empowerment, and emotional and physical integration.
“Having been a psycho-therapist for over 30 years, I am reluctant to commit to a group experience unless the facilitator is frankly excellent and an expert. Heidi paced us through a warming up process until the group was safe and capable of welcoming and holding whatever showed up. I gained a few new tools no doubt, but the real benefit is hard to put into language. For me personally, it was visceral, embodied, and emotional, allowing me to get out of my own way and make a shift I have been needing to make.”
Policies & FAQs
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FEES & INSURANCE
In my work with individuals and groups, the fee will be established during our initial consultation. Fees may vary depending on frequency of our sessions, time of day and length of session. If you determine that this fee exceeds what is reasonable for you to pay and have demonstrated financial need, I will work with you to come to a fee that is acceptable to both of us.
Generally, my pricing is as follows:
Psychotherapy Individual Session 45 min: $200/ sliding scale available
Groups: TBD on length/type of group
I do not participate directly with any insurance plans as an In-Network Provider, but when you receive a bill, you can submit the bill to your insurance company for possible out of network reimbursement. Please check with your insurance company to see what reimbursement options they offer.
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