Drama Therapy Online

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

For Clients For Therapists

Training Mental Health Professionals To Take On The Online World Creatively

Monique offers a variety of Webinar style trainings, aimed at introducing online drama therapy techniques to mental health professionals. Each webinar includes a custom made resource pack to support your work online.

If you or your organisation wants to take your therapy online creatively, consider booking into one of the available live webinars. You can also contact Monique directly to book a private, custom webinar for your group.

Monique has recorded her most popular webinars so that you can access her training from a place and time that suits you.

Click through to the shop to order the webinar of your choice.

Currently available:

Intro to Online Drama Therapy (Ethics)

Intro to Online Drama Therapy (Video call tips and techniques)

Intro to Text-Based Drama Therapy (Ethics)

Intro to Text-Based Drama Therapy (Email and Instant Messaging techniques)

"The Online Drama Therapy Webinar was a professional, informative session and well worth the investment! Having to move to virtual working due to COVID-19 naturally came with some anxieties, however Monique instantly put these at ease. Her knowledge and experience has opened my eyes to new ways of working which I have put into practice since the course. Having space for discussion/questions was a real benefit.
I left feeling positive and energised - thank you!"

-Charlotte
Drama Therapist, UK

Individual Consulting and Supervision

Monique offers one-on-one consulting and supervision services for mental health professionals.

60 minute sessions can focus on a variety of topics, including:

Integrating creativity into online work

Online case consultation

Text-based drama therapy techniques

Video call drama therapy techniques

Running online groups

Technical support for online work

Ethical consultation

Online Drama Therapy

Therapy from the comfort of your own home. Choose from a variety of video and text-based options from your laptop, tablet, or smartphone.

Self Care

Learn valuable skills that will help you look after yourself no matter what life throws at you.

Help for Expats

Finding your feet in a new country can be incredibly stressful. Find out how drama therapy can help make your new country feel like home.

Anxious? Depressed?

Anxiety and depression affect every part of our daily lives. Drama therapy can help you better manage life's ups and downs.

Help for Couples

Communication can be tough. Whether you're together in one room, or halfway across the world, drama therapy can help strengthen your relationship.

Adolescent Therapy

Online therapy for handling stress, anxiety, or depression as a young adult (13 to 19 years). Use technology in innovative ways to help you tackle what's ahead.

Therapy Options

Choose from a variety of online therapy options. We offer video calls via Zoom, secure chat, email services, or a combination of these. We offer fees on a sliding scale to accommodate your needs. Click below to get more information.

Individual Sessions

What is Online Drama Therapy?

If you're worried you'll have to act, or that you're 'not creative enough' for drama therapy, you shouldn't be. Click the button below to get an idea of the things we might do in a session (no theatre experience required!)

What Are The Benefits of Drama Therapy?

Drama Therapy can help you to manage change, figure out behaviours that are holding you back, and create a way forward. There are endless benefits to this creative, oblique therapy.

'Drama therapy is the intentional use of healing aspects of drama and theatre as the therapeutic process. It is a method of working and playing that uses action methods to facilitate creativity, imagination, learning, insight and growth.'

The British Association of Dramatherapists

Click the button below to read through my Frequently Asked Questions, or send me an email directly.

Monique (she/her) is registered in South Africa through the HPCSA as a drama therapist. She is also a certified cyber therapist, trained by the UK based Online Therapy Institute.

Monique comes from a theatre and dance background, and prior to starting her practice she taught English in Korea and Vietnam with her husband.

She has a deep understanding of expat issues, and she is a passionate advocate of self-care. Monique enjoys using memes and technology in therapy.

She is a white, bisexual, cis-gender woman. She is committed to ongoing anti-racism learning and is an intersectional feminist.

Drama Therapy Online Interns

Lebogang Mokgatle is an HPCSA registered drama therapy intern and is one of three student representatives for SANATA.

He has a particular interest in incorporating innovative technologies in his therapeutic interventions in an attempt to create more access to therapy for the wider community. The various contexts that Lebogang has worked in include NGOs, school settings and a private psychiatric hospital setting.

Lebogang is inclined towards embodied work that allows clients to utilize their bodies as forms of expression where words cannot express enough.

Michela Nordmann has completed her MA in drama therapy (Wits) and is registered with the HPCSA as an intern drama therapist. She is also a member of the South African National Arts Therapy Association (SANATA) and the German Society of theatre therapy (DGFT). Michela has many years of experience with children in an educational environment, first as a speech and drama teacher, and most recently as a Social and Emotional Learning facilitator (SEL).

Michela supports individual clients and groups of clients. She has a special interest in trauma, disabilities, ASD, family therapy, behavioural disorders, child development and attachment. Her experience of having physical limitations makes her sensitive to the needs and limits of the clients she works with and brings a unique awareness of the mind-body connection.

Michela is inspired by life and those around her, her collection of children’s story books is as colourful as they are wise, after all one of her favourite quotes is from Peter Pan by JM Barrie “the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.”