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.
We work with relationships at the centre: we support people and systems to build safer, more connected, and more conscious relationships with themselves, with each other, and within 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 well-being, 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, these relationships can be understood, strengthened, and repaired. We believe change happens in relationships through safety, curiosity, and connection
Who we support: Children and young people, families and carers, care-experienced children and young people, professionals, teams, and organisations. We specialise in 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, Mindfulness and regulation, Reflective relational practice, Dyadic Developmental Practice DDP including PACE.
This means prioritising safety, connection, and curiosity, 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 systems around you.
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.
Ciara brings a strong commitment to self-regulation and reflective practice, with clear awareness of boundaries, responsibility and ethical, safe practice. She is recognised as conscientious, dedicated and dependable in her approach. - 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.
Grounded in relational and trauma-informed practice, and informed by Dyadic Developmental Practice and the principles of PACE, dramatherapy places safety, curiosity, and connection at the centre of the therapeutic relationship.
It provides a creative space for children, young people, adults, families, couples, and organisations to explore experience, strengthen relationships, and work through challenges, including those linked to trauma and adversity.
Dramatherapy supports emotional regulation, attachment, identity, communication, behaviour, learning, and meaning making.
At its core, it offers space to be both witnessed and understood, supporting integration, connection, and renewed relationship with self and others.
Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we'll ever do.
Brene Brown
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