A Creative Approach To Life’s Serious Stuff
Relational, creative, and trauma-informed support for children, young people, families, and organisations.
A creative approach to life's serious stuff
Relational, creative, and trauma-informed support for children, young people, families, and organisations.
DREAM together supports children, families, and organisations in repairing, transforming, and cultivating safer, more conscious relationships with themselves and others.
We work with relationships at the centre. We support people and systems to build safer, more connected, and more conscious ways of relating to themselves, to each other, and to the environments they are part of.
Our work is grounded in relational and trauma-informed practice, creating space for experience to be explored safely, understood more deeply, and gently transformed over time.
What we believe
Safe, trusting relationships matter. They shape emotional wellbeing, development, and how we move through the world. When relationships are impacted by trauma, adversity, or life experience, communication and connection can become difficult.
With the right support, relationships can be understood, strengthened, and repaired. We believe meaningful change happens in relationships, through safety, curiosity, connection, care, and compassion.
Who we support
We work with children and young people, families and carers, care experienced children and young people, professionals, teams, and organisations.
We have particular experience supporting care experienced young people, including those who are fostered or adopted, offering spaces where their stories can be held, explored, and understood in new ways.
How we work
Our approach is relational, creative, and trauma-informed. We draw on Dramatherapy, embodiment and somatic approaches, including body awareness and processing, alongside mindfulness and nervous system regulation. Psychoeducation is offered through a “head, heart, body” lens, supporting understanding, emotional meaning making, and embodied awareness of experience.
We use reflective, attachment informed approaches, including Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) and PACE (Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, and Empathy) to help people feel safe, understood, and emotionally connected in relationships, supporting emotional attunement, responsiveness, and secure attachment
This means prioritising safety, connection, and curiosity, and working with people rather than doing things to them. We focus on creating the conditions where understanding, regulation, and meaningful change can emerge.
What we offer
Creative therapy, workshops and training, consultancy and organisational support, keynote speaking, and reflective spaces.
At the heart of our work
At the centre of DREAM together is a belief in repair, growth, and reconnection. We offer space to pause, reflect, and begin to relate differently to yourself, to others, and to the environments you are part of.
About me
Ciara is passionate about supporting others to gain insight, growth, healing & transformation through being playful, accepting, curious and empathetic towards themselves and others.
I would describe Ciara as conscientious, dedicated and dependable, with a clear commitment to safe and ethical practice. I would have no hesitation in recommending her". - Dr Lisa Cherry
Dramatherapy
Dramatherapy is an evidence based creative psychotherapy that uses story, play, role, movement, metaphor, and imagination to support expression, healing, and growth. It offers a way of working that goes beyond words, engaging both body and mind to support understanding, connection, and change.
Rooted in relational and trauma informed practice, and informed by Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) and the principles of PACE, Dramatherapy places safety, curiosity, and connection at the centre of the therapeutic relationship.
PACE, developed by Dan Hughes, stands for Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity, and Empathy and provides a consistent relational stance that fosters emotional safety, non judgement, and attuned connection, helping people feel secure enough to explore and make sense of their experiences.
Dramatherapy can be particularly helpful in working with complex developmental trauma and relational trauma, including for care experienced children, young people, adults, and their support networks. It is also valuable for those whose experiences feel fragmented, overwhelming, or difficult to express in words alone.
Much of this experience is pre verbal or held outside of language, formed early in life or within relationships where safety and regulation were not consistently available. Talking alone may not always reach these experiences, which can instead be communicated through emotions, behaviour, body responses, and relationships.
Dramatherapy offers a structured, creative, and relational space where these experiences can be safely contained and explored through symbolic and embodied processes. It supports expression at a tolerable pace, allowing what feels overwhelming or disconnected to be approached with care and creativity.
Through this process, fragmented or overwhelming experiences can begin to be explored, understood, and gradually integrated. Over time, this can support emotional regulation, a stronger sense of identity, improved communication, and more secure and meaningful relationships with self and others.
How Dramatherapy supports teams and organisations
Dramatherapy is also highly effective in supporting teams, services, and organisations working in emotionally demanding contexts such as education, social care, health, and the charity sector.
It provides a reflective and experiential space for teams to explore the emotional impact of their work, including stress, burnout, vicarious trauma, and relational dynamics within systems. By using creative and embodied approaches, teams can access experiences that are often difficult to name in traditional supervision or meetings.
This work supports improved communication, trust, and psychological safety within teams. It helps staff understand relational patterns, strengthen collaboration, and develop shared language around complex emotional and relational work.
Dramatherapy can also support leadership and organisational culture by creating space to reflect on roles, boundaries, decision making, and the wider system. This can lead to more connected, reflective, and resilient ways of working, where staff feel more supported and better able to sustain compassionate practice.
Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we'll ever do.
Brene Brown
Get in touch
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