Drama Therapy Institute of Los Angeles

Drama Therapy Institute of Los Angeles At the forefront of drama therapy, narrative and creative arts, DTILA offers CE's and training for m

The Drama Therapy Institute of Los Angeles is accredited by the North American Drama Therapy Association as a training program for students and clinicians interested in the clinical applications of drama in therapy. The DTILA is a recognized and well-respected program at the forefront of drama, narrative and creative arts therapy training, and offers a certificate in drama therapy. On-going classe

s and day intensives are available for graduate-level students and professionals.

• At the forefront of drama, narrative and creative arts therapy training
• Certificate Program in Drama Therapy
• Required and elective classes in drama therapy and psychology
• Approved Alternative Training Option for NADT
• CEUs offered (CE Provider # PCE- 3906)

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFT)
Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW)
Licensed Educational Psychologists (LEP)
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors (LPCC)
Associate Clinical Social Workers (ASW)
Marriage and Family Therapist Interns (IMF)

Check out this dual-instructor class taught by our wonderful instructors, Dr. Afary and Ms. Baker-Nauman, about how to e...
06/25/2025

Check out this dual-instructor class taught by our wonderful instructors, Dr. Afary and Ms. Baker-Nauman, about how to embody ethics to respond to uncertain times through drama therapy.
To learn more about and sign up for this class, click on the following link: https://www.dramatherapyinstitutela.com/fall-2025-semester-schedule/

Please join us for Clinical Uses of Narradrama: Narradrama Steps with Ksenia Ilinskaya, MA, NF, NTDates: April 27; May 4...
03/25/2025

Please join us for Clinical Uses of Narradrama: Narradrama Steps with Ksenia Ilinskaya, MA, NF, NT
Dates: April 27; May 4, 18 and 25
Time: 9 am (PST) to 12:30 pm (PST)
Cost: $338
All classes are virtual!

Please join us on April 6 and 13, 2025 for our new workshop on embodying safety through somatic pratices!
03/25/2025

Please join us on April 6 and 13, 2025 for our new workshop on embodying safety through somatic pratices!

Don't miss this SPECIAL POPULATIONS class with Cynthia Kelvin! Description below.SIGN UP HERE: https://form.jotform.com/...
12/14/2024

Don't miss this SPECIAL POPULATIONS class with Cynthia Kelvin! Description below.

SIGN UP HERE: https://form.jotform.com/240606677947166
VIEW FULL WINTER SCHEDULE: http://www.dramatherapyinstitutela.com/winter-2025-semester-schedule/

Drama Therapy with Adolescents
Date: January 12
Time: 10:30 am to 6:00 pm (PST)

TBA Time: 1 hour
Cost: $169
Facilitator: Cynthia Kelvin. PsyD, RDT

This course explores how drama therapy and other expressive arts therapy techniques can be utilized in the treatment of adolescents. Participants will be introduced to drama and expressive arts interventions for some common presenting issues among adolescents, such as anxiety, depression, exploration and formation of identity, and challenges associated with both peer and adult relationships. Relevant research findings, theoretical orientations, and case examples will be discussed.

Through experiential exercises using projective tools and embodied expressions, participants will explore practical and potential applications of drama and other expressive arts in assisting adolescent clients in developing emotion regulation skills, adaptive coping, and pro-social skills while cultivating a healthy self-image.

11/19/2024

Need Ethics credit? Don't miss Kamran Afary's Transformational Justice, Narradrama, & Ethics class on December 1st and 8th!

SIGN UP HERE: https://form.jotform.com/233017337264048

Transformational Justice, Narradrama, & Ethics
Dates: December 1 and 8
Time: 9:30 am to 12:30pm ( PST)
Cost: $169
Teacher: Kamran Afary. MA, MFT, RDT, NT
Additional: 1 hour arranged

This workshop delves into the intersections of abolitionist principles and drama therapy. Participants will explore how entrenched carceral logics pervade social institutions and professional practices, challenging drama therapists to envision, redefine, and enact new concepts of freedom and justice. The workshop will introduce participants to the wealth of existing literature, research, and multimedia resources, including the Drama Therapy in Prison Archives available for their educational and clinical practice. Attendees will engage in discussions and experiential exercises designed to foster critical consciousness, equipping them with the tools to advocate for community-based approaches and holistic well-being, thereby contributing to a more equitable and just society.

*This class is approved for CHED.

10/29/2024

Alternate Training Students: Don't miss the Core Class of CREATIVE DRAMA, taught by our very own Pamela Dunne!

SIGN UP HERE: https://form.jotform.com/233017337264048

Creative Drama
Dates:, Nov. 9 and 16, Dec. 7, Dec 14
Time: 9:30 to 3:30 pm ( PST) (30 minute lunch break)
Additional Hours: Self- Study, Lab, and Film hour-TBA ( 23)
Zoom, and possibility of Hybrid

Cost: $899 (PAYMENT PLANS AVAILABLE)
Instructor: Pam Dunne, Ph.D, RDT, BCT, NT

Participants will explore the theory and practice of creative drama in educational and therapeutic settings and discover creative methods of developing story dramatization, ongoing drama, pantomime and theatre games and apply learning to drama therapy. They will experiment with linear and process approaches to creative drama and create projects centered around social action, drama therapy and performance art. Class projects and exercises will be applied to educational, community, and clinical settings.

09/30/2024

Don't miss this NARRADRAMA CLASS focusing on relationships that is taught by our very own Ksenia Illinskaya!

SIGN UP HERE: https://form.jotform.com/233017337264048

Transforming Connections: Navigating Relationship Challenges through Narradrama
Dates: Sundays, October 13 and 20
Time: 9 am to 12:00 pm ( PST)
Cost: $ 169
Additional Hour: (1) TBA
Teacher: Ksenia Illinskaya, (Narrative Therapy Professor, Psychologist, and Narradrama Trainer (NT))
Zoom

This workshop delves into the heart of relationships, not as consumer commodities or as means to an end, but as valuable in themself. Through the lens of Narradrama, we’ll externalize and breathe life into new possibilities in imaging different relationships (friends, parents, couples) using a fusion of creative exercises. Together, we’ll explore and co-create pathways toward the emergence of empowered, preferred roles for relationships.

08/30/2024

Alternative Training Students: don't miss the opportunity to take Developmental Psychology from Terhi Korkiakangas, a psychologist, author, and poet! Join this amazing, creative and comprehensive class!

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Developmental Psychology
Dates: September 7, 8, 14, 15, 22; October 27; November 3, 10, 17; December 15, 21
Time: 9 am to 12 pm (PST) – except for December 21, which is 9 am to 1 pm
Arranged Video Lab Hours (11)
Cost: $899
Instructor: Terhi Korkiakangas, Ph.D, CL.Hyp. Psychologist

This course will examine how people develop and change throughout the lifespan, from conception to old age. We will explore the development of human behavior, thought, emotion, and relationships, with a focus on the prenatal, childhood, and adolescent stages when most of these changes take place. The course will cover classic theories of child development and newer approaches based on neuroscience, gene-environment interactions, and contextual and sociocultural influences on development. We will also address important topics such as the nature-nurture debate, biological and social perspectives on psychopathology, and neurodiversity-based approaches to atypical development. Participants will learn about developmental psychology through a combination of theory, experiential exercises, relevant videos, assignments, and creative methods designed for self-reflection and discovery.

Tomorrow! Join us for Narradrama and Creative Arts Techniques with Anxiety Date: July 13th and August 3rdTime: 9:00am to...
07/12/2024

Tomorrow! Join us for Narradrama and Creative Arts Techniques with Anxiety

Date: July 13th and August 3rd
Time: 9:00am to 12:30pm (PST)
Cost: $169
Facilitator: Pam Paulson, MA, LMFT, RDT, NT
Location: Zoom/In Person
Click here to register: https://form.jotform.com/240606677947166
Narradrama and Creative Arts Techniques offer tools to help us honor our fears and anxieties as well as find our way back into our bodies, our hearts, calming and refocusing our minds, reframing our stories, and finding meaning, authenticity and connection.

Update on upcoming summer class!Ethics, Intersectionality and ResearchDate: July 14th and August 21stTime: 9:00am to 12:...
07/11/2024

Update on upcoming summer class!
Ethics, Intersectionality and Research
Date: July 14th and August 21st
Time: 9:00am to 12:30pm (PST)
Cost: $169
Facilitator: Kamran Afary (Ph.D, RDT)
Location: Zoom/In Person
Click here to register: https://form.jotform.com/240606677947166

Participants will learn about the history and current practices of drama therapy with vulnerable populations, focusing on research ethics. The workshop will cover ethical guidelines for research with vulnerable populations, requirements for conducting research with human subjects, necessary permissions, and the use of disclosure forms. Understanding procedures involving IRB’s as well as guidelines to attending to intersectional identities in therapeutic and educational encounters will be explored. APA and NADTA code of Ethics, will be reviewed. In connection with research, participants will learn about the uniqueness of narrative reauthoring, Narradrama research, and the use of narrative questions which will be useful in assessing new identities, and studying of other relevant variables.

Reminder! Join us for new summer classes!Narradrama and Creative Arts Techniques with Anxiety Date: July 13th and August...
06/21/2024

Reminder! Join us for new summer classes!
Narradrama and Creative Arts Techniques with Anxiety
Date: July 13th and August 3rd
Time: 9:00am to 12:30pm (PST)
Cost: $169
Facilitator: Pam Paulson, MA, LMFT, RDT, NT
Location: Zoom/In Person
Click here to register: https://form.jotform.com/240606677947166
Narradrama and Creative Arts Techniques offer tools to help us honor our fears and anxieties as well as find our way back into our bodies, our hearts, calming and refocusing our minds, reframing our stories, and finding meaning, authenticity and connection.

AT Drama Therapy Students! Core Research Class Begins in FIVE (5) Days!Research and Assessment in Drama Therapy (Core Cl...
05/06/2024

AT Drama Therapy Students! Core Research Class Begins in FIVE (5) Days!

Research and Assessment in Drama Therapy (Core Class) - 3 Units
Dates: May 11; June 9, 14, 21, 29, 30; July 6, 12, 20
Time: May 11; June 9, 29, 30; July 6, 20: 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM (PST); June 14; July 12: 11 AM to 1 PM (PST); June 21: 5 PM to 7 PM (PST); 10 TBA Hours
Cost: $899
Facilitator: Pamela Dunne, PhD, RDT-BCT, NT
Location: Hybrid, Zoom or In-Person
Click here to register: https://form.jotform.com/240606677947166

Participants will examine current research practices, both practice and evidence based. They will review selected drama therapy research papers and identify an area of interest to explore further. Participants will also explore relevant drama therapy and creative arts assessment measures such as Role Playing Test, Six Piece Story Making, Tell a Story, Role Profiles, EPR and Six Keys Model. The course will conclude with a research paper or proposed outline for a Pilot Study.

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