About the Practice
When a child’s story feels too heavy to tell directly, dramatherapy can hold it through role, metaphor, movement and play. Emma Dawes Dramatherapy North West gives Manchester families a creative therapy route for children and young people who cannot always explain distress through words alone. The work is therapy, not an art class, music lesson or drama club: the creative medium is used to support emotional expression, regulation and repair.

Clinical Expertise
Dramatherapy and creative therapy

Feelings that need a creative, contained setting; children and young people referred by doctors, schools and parents

CPD includes autism awareness, Makaton basics, sand play, puppets, Foetal Alcohol Syndrome and challenging behaviour

Why Work With Us?
HCPC and BADth Dramatherapist: Parents can see the professional route behind the work, including protected-title or professional-body signals where available.

Children and Young People Focus: Creative arts therapy can help a child communicate through image, sound, story, movement, metaphor or making when direct questions create pressure.

Parent and Setting Awareness: The work gives children a contained creative setting where difficult feelings can be explored without demanding a formal sit-down conversation.