So you want my arts job: Drama Therapist

Drama therapist Anne Gollan creates safe environments for play and storytelling with both children and adults.
Drama therapist Anne Gollan.

Drama therapist Anne Gollan is passionate about the use of play and storytelling to explore and make sense of difficult emotions, for both children and young adults.

Skilled at creating safe environments and facilitating role play, Gollan uses a background as an actor and drama teacher, together with a recently completed Masters in Drama Therapy, to respond to different individuals and groups. She says she’s excited by the increasing mainstream acceptance of “somatic knowledge” – the idea that the body has a way of holding onto emotions and trauma, and that it needs to be listened to.

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Rochelle Siemienowicz is a Melbourne writer and editor. Her first book Fallen, a memoir was published in 2014 and her second, Double Happiness, a novel, in 2024. She has a PhD in Australian cinema and was previously a journalist at ScreenHub and ArtsHub. ou can find her on Instagram: @Rochelle_Rochelle or at Substack where she writes a fortnightly newsletter, The Fool and the Queen.