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Psychodrama Role Training
in Richmond, VA
Recovering from trauma requires the development of Resilience Roles. Role Training takes place over a 12 session curriculum to develop and strengthen the three Resilience Roles necessary for Trauma Recovery.
"The body remembers what the mind forgets."
- Zerka Moreno
Psychodrama Role Training is a powerful, experiential approach to understanding and embodying your internal roles. By engaging in Somatically-Informed Psychodramatic techniques, you'll gain insights into your psychological patterns and learn to shift limiting behaviors. Whether you're looking to improve relationships, enhance self-awareness, or heal emotional wounds, Psychodrama Role Training offers a transformative experience.
What is Psychodrama?
Why does Role Training matter?
What are Psychodrama Roles?
How does Psychodrama Role Training work?
How is Role Training different from Trauma Therapy?
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What is Psychodrama?
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Psychodrama is an action-based recovery model that uses a variety of techniques to explore and process emotions, behavior, and identity. During Psychodrama Role Training, participants take on various internal roles (e.g., the Observing Ego, the Playful Child, and the Good Enough Nurturer) to deepen their understanding of inner conflicts, strengths, and vulnerabilities.
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The process is guided by a trained facilitator who uses somatically-informed action methods to facilitate emotional expression and transformation.
Why does Role Training matter?
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Psychodrama Role Training offers deep insights into the roles you play in everyday life—whether it's at work, in relationships, or within yourself. Each of us plays multiple roles, often unconsciously, and these roles can either empower or limit us.
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Seeking Depth to Recovery uses our own proprietary Role Theory framework, inspired by TSM, IFS, and Somatic Experiencing. We believe that trauma cannot be safely processed without the development of internal resources. In our Psychodrama Role Training, these internal resources include the roles necessary for healthy personality development and adult functioning: Observing Ego, Good Enough Nurturer, and Spontaneous Child.
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By engaging with, developing, and strengthening these roles, you can:
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Unlock deeper emotional awareness and self-knowledge.
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Heal past wounds by developing the resources you didn’t have during the time of wounding.
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Strengthen your resilience by embodying empowering roles.
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Improve communication by understanding the different roles you and others play.
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Let go of lingering resentments by understanding the roles holding them.
What are Psychodrama Roles?
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Role Training starts with Role Taking, then Role Playing, and finally Role Creating. When we get to Role Creating, we have established fluidity and integration among our various Trauma Roles and Resilience Roles.
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Seeking Depth to Recovery has created a psychodrama journey to help acquaint you with your Roles and establish organization within your Role Repertoire. Starting with either with one-to-one Role Training or our Awakening Intuition group, we introduce you to your Observing Ego, Good Enough Nurturer, and your Spontaneous Child.
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OBSERVING EGO: This is the part of ourselves that observes our life's experience without judgment, shame, or blame. It's like the narrator to our story - it can describe our emotional experience without being hijacked by emotions. This allows us to respond rather than react, take things less personally, and produces more sense of choice in our lives.
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GOOD ENOUGH NURTURER: This is the hardest part to develop, as it's often intertwined with the Trauma Roles who tell us that we don't deserve to rest or to be loved. We often play this role well in the lives of others, but find it inaccessible to ourselves. This is why we call it "Good Enough." When we're connected to this role, we have self-compassion, self-forgiveness, and positive self-beliefs.
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SPONTANEOUS CHILD: This role is the part of ourselves that was kept safe during periods of trauma or chronic stress. It connects us safely to play, joy in life, and creativity. This role is instrumental in our ability to enjoy living.​
How does Psychodrama Role Training work?
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While we offer opportunities to Role Train through our weekly psychodrama groups and monthly psychodrama workshops, we've developed this specific curriculum to support folx newer to Role Theory so that they can better maximize the benefit of more advanced programming.​
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Our Psychodrama Role Training program takes place over 12 one-hour sessions. Each of these sessions infuses somatic modalities to amplify the embodiment of Resilience Roles. Relevant psychoeducation on neurobiology and Role Theory will be peppered throughout the experiential process.
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Participants can expect to engage in somatically-informed grounding exercises that activate neural networks of Resilience. They will learn how to Role and Role Reverse with their Observing Ego, Good Enough Nurturer, and Spontaneous Child. Though more likely to happen in a psychodrama group, it is common to witness what stimulates one's Trauma Roles and have the opportunity to gain insight into the relationship between Trauma Roles and Resilience Roles.
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Two of these 12 sessions will take place with a Somatic Movement Therapist to help discharge trauma energy that might have been stirred up, and strengthen resilience energy.
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These sessions typically take place weekly for the first 10 sessions, then titrate down to biweekly as the program wraps up. It's not uncommon for individuals to want to continue to receive Role support, and they may elect to enroll in ongoing Integration Sessions.
How is Psychodrama Role Training different from Trauma Therapy?
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Psychodrama Role Training draws specifically from Role Theory, uses Psychodrama Action Methods, and follows a curriculum. While Role Training within a psychodrama group explores one's entire Role Repertoire, this specific program hones in on the development of Resilience Roles and contains Trauma Roles for exploration in a therapy setting.
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Trauma Therapy draws from a plethora of clinical theories that inform a multitude of interventions in order to transform Trauma Roles by safely witnessing their pain. Trauma-sensitive Trauma Therapy should always focus on building Resilience first, which may look similar to Psychodrama Role Training. However, Trauma Therapists may go a bit out of order when there are really loud Trauma Roles that serve as a barrier to Resilience Role Development.
Get started with Psychodrama Role Training.
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If you think Psychodrama Role Training is a good fit for you, then request an appointment to schedule your first appointment.
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Review the investment options below, and pick whatever feels right to you. If you're not quite sure that this is the best fit, you can pay for your first appointment only to feel it out. If you decide after this appointment that you'd like to save money by choosing payment option 1 or 2, we will apply your credit to your payment.
