Dramatherapy Relationships Expressive Arts Mindfulness
Relational, trauma-informed support for children, young people, families, and organisations.
A creative approach to life's serious stuff
We offer relational, trauma-informed support for children, young people, families, and organisations.
DREAM together believes that safe, secure, and trusting relationships matter. We help children, families, and organisations repair, transform, and cultivate safer, more conscious relationships with themselves and others.
We specialise in supporting children and young people who are in care, fostered, adopted, or care-experienced, as well as the systems around them. Every care-experienced child or young person deserves a safe, supportive space to explore, re-tell, frame, and reframe their story.
Children’s development is shaped by their key relationships, influencing their emotional and social growth. Teenagers with trusting relationships develop a stronger sense of safety, self-esteem, and confidence, helping them navigate new experiences and challenges.
Families with safe and secure relationships manage stress better, experience lower rates of anxiety and depression, and build healthier, more trusting, and cooperative relationships.
Workers who experience safe, trusting relationships in the workplace have lower stress, higher productivity, and reduced risk of burnout.
We recognise that even the strongest relationships can be affected by life’s challenges, including loss, bullying, abuse, illness, trauma, and other difficult experiences. These challenges can disrupt trust, emotional connection, and communication, and impact mental well-being.
We aim to help relationships heal, be repaired, or be transformed, supporting individuals and communities in rebuilding trust, connection, and fulfilment.
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.
My son and I have learnt how to have fun, laugh together, and trust each other.
Claire
Dramatherapy
Dramatherapy is an evidence-based creative psychotherapy that supports children, young people, families, and the systems around them. It uses play, role, metaphor, and storytelling to help people explore and reframe experiences that may be difficult to express in words. Through dramatherapy, individuals can uncover patterns, gain insight, and build new ways of relating to themselves and others. It helps children and young people process trauma, develop emotional understanding, strengthen relationships, and build confidence. Families and carers can use it to deepen connection, repair ruptures, and create safer, more supportive relationships. Dramatherapy is also a practical tool for teams, supervision, and organisational development, helping adults and professionals enhance communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and reflective practice.
Relationships
Unhealed childhood experiences and relational trauma can affect how we relate to ourselves and others. We aim to support children, young people, families, and carers in exploring themselves, their relationships, and their views of the world. We aim to facilitate relational healing, helping to build safer, trusting, and more satisfying connections, enabling growth, understanding, and healthier ways of relating.
Expressive Movement
Expressive movement supports the whole person, physically, emotionally, and mentally. Our bodies carry the memories of every fear, joy, and trauma, even when our minds cannot recall them. Through movement, children, young people, and families can reconnect with their bodies, notice sensations, and understand how these shape their experience of the world. Physical self-awareness is the first step to exploring, framing, and reframing personal stories, building resilience, and supporting relational healing in safe, trauma-informed spaces.
Arts
DREAM together believe in using creativity to support growth, insight, and stronger relationships. Through a relational, developmental, and trauma-informed lens, the arts help children, young people, families, couples, and organisations explore experiences, reflect on challenges, and discover new ways of understanding themselves and each other. Creative activities encourage self-expression, connection, and positive change.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness helps people feel calmer, more aware, and connected to their bodies. Using a trauma-informed approach, DREAM together provide simple grounding and self-regulation techniques that help children, young people, families, couples, and organisations manage stress, build resilience, and strengthen relationships
Online sessions
Since the pandemic and into 2026, DREAM together continues to offer flexible online support to improve accessibility and reduce barriers for individuals, children, young people and families. Sessions can be accessed from any private space with an internet connection and a suitable device, using secure platforms such as Zoom or Microsoft Teams. Online support offers flexibility, reduces travel time and allows people to access help in a way that fits their daily lives. It also enables us to achieve meaningful outcomes and use creative mediums in sessions to support engagement and expression. It works alongside in-person support to provide choice and meet different needs.
'I like the way the sessions run. Ciara is good at bringing me back to focus when I get stuck"
Nadine, London
Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we'll ever do.
Brene Brown
Get in touch
If you are working with or know someone who you feel could benefit from DREAM together's help, you can get in touch by clicking the button below.