Living Arts Counseling Center

A Drama Therapy

Group for Women

A group for women interested in using the arts for personal growth and transformation

Facilitated by
       Andrea Thring, MFT Trainee   

This group invites women to explore challenging issues in a safe environment. Participants will receive support to examine challenges such as, isolation, difficult transitions, depression, disempowerment, lost confidence, or feeling ‘stuck’.

Drama Therapy provides a way to discover inner strengths and connect with others through action. Drama therapy helps stimulate new creative and resourceful responses to real-life dilemmas. Drama therapy uses role-play, improvisation, playfulness, ritual, and other action methods. Participants are given the opportunity to process emotions, develop insight and experiment with new roles and ways of being. No acting or theatre experience is necessary.

About the facilitator: Andrea Thring is a drama therapist and has six years of experience facilitating groups. She has used theater as a tool for therapeutic and social change in Montreal, India, and Korea. Andrea has worked with clients diverse in age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status. She integrates drama therapy, psychodrama, psychotherapy, and art therapy techniques in her sessions. Andrea Thring is a MA Candidate at the California Institute of Integral Studies (Counseling Psychology, with an emphasis in Drama Therapy) and Marriage and Family Therapist trainee at the Living Arts  Counseling Center. She holds a degree in Fine Arts with a specialization in Theater and Development at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.

Andrea Thring is an MFT trainee and is supervised by Armand Volkas, MFT, RDT/BCT, MFC#28789.

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