DRAMA, MUSIC, & WRITING THERAPY
Your Story Deserves to Be Told
Your voice matters. Let's help you find it.
AT START CREATIVE ARTS THERAPY SERVICES, WE MEET YOU WHERE YOU ARE.
Whether you're navigating loss, seeking clarity, working through relational challenges, or searching for a deeper connection to yourself, these modalities offer a path forward.
Drama, music, and writing therapy are powerful expressive modalities that use performance, sound, rhythm, and language to support emotional healing, personal growth, and self-discovery.
These approaches recognize that healing happens through the act of creation, through telling your story in new ways, and through finding your voice when words have felt impossible.
→ Drama Therapy
Drama Therapy invites you to step into different roles, explore perspectives, and embody experiences in a safe, contained space. Through improvisation, role-play, and storytelling, you can process trauma, practice new behaviors, and rehearse difficult conversations before they happen in real life.
→ Music Therapy
Music Therapy uses rhythm, melody, songwriting, and listening to access emotions, regulate your nervous system, and create moments of connection and release. Whether you're playing an instrument, writing lyrics, or simply letting sound move through you, music becomes a language for what words can't hold.
→ Writing Therapy
Writing Therapy offers a space to externalize thoughts, explore memories, and rewrite the narratives that shape your life. Through journaling, poetry, letter writing, or storytelling, you can process grief, trauma, and complex emotions while reclaiming agency over your own story.
OUR APPROACH TO DRAMA, MUSIC, & WRITING THERAPY
We believe your story is still being written.
The scripts you've been handed, the roles you've been asked to play, the songs that have been stuck on repeat. None of it is permanent. Through drama, music, and writing, we help you rewrite, reimagine, and reclaim.
✔ Trauma-Informed
We create safety and trust before diving into difficult material. You set the pace. We hold the space.
✔ Strengths-Based
You already have what you need. We help you access it, amplify it, and trust it.
✔ Person-Centered
Your experiences, your voice, your truth. We don't impose our agenda. We follow yours.
✔ Holistic
We integrate creative arts therapy with evidence-based modalities like CBT, DBT, EMDR, and IFS to support your whole self.
Your voice deserves to be heard.
Let's make space for it together.
How Drama, Music, & Writing Therapy Benefits You
These creative modalities offer unique pathways to healing that traditional talk therapy alone may not provide:
Safe Exploration of Emotions
Drama allows you to try on different perspectives and practice vulnerability in a contained, supportive environment. You can explore anger, grief, or fear without the risk of real-world consequences.
Rewriting Narratives
The stories you tell yourself shape your reality. Through writing and drama therapy, you can challenge old beliefs, reframe experiences, and author a new chapter.
Nervous System Regulation
Music activates your body's natural calming responses. Rhythm, breath, and melody work together to ground you, reduce anxiety, and bring you back into the present moment.
Connection & Expression
Music and drama foster connection, whether it's with yourself, your therapist, or others in a group setting. They create moments of shared humanity and vulnerability.
Processing & Release
Writing externalizes what feels too big to hold inside. Getting it out of your body and onto the page creates distance, clarity, and relief.
Empowerment & Agency
These modalities remind you that you are the author, the composer, the director of your own life. You have the power to change the script.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Common Questions About Drama, Music, & Writing Therapy
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Absolutely not. This isn't about performance or perfection. It's about process. You don't need to be talented or experienced. You just need to be willing to show up and explore. Our therapists will guide you every step of the way, meeting you exactly where you are.
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Sessions are tailored to you. We might start with a check-in, then move into an activity that fits what you're working through. That could be improvisation, role-play, songwriting, free writing, guided visualization, or simply listening to music that resonates. There's no one-size-fits-all approach. We follow your needs and your pace.
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Only if you want to. These sessions are about your healing, not an audience. You decide what feels safe and comfortable. Some people find it powerful to share. Others prefer to keep their work private. Both are valid, and we honor whatever choice you make.
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Yes. Virtual sessions work beautifully for these modalities. Writing therapy translates seamlessly online. Music therapy can involve singing, rhythm work, or listening together. Drama therapy can include role-play, improvisation, and storytelling through video. Distance doesn't diminish the power of the work.
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If you've ever felt like talk therapy isn't quite enough, if you're searching for new ways to express yourself, if you love storytelling, music, or words, or if you simply feel drawn to something different, these modalities might be exactly what you need. The best way to find out? Try it. Schedule a consultation and see what resonates.