I aim to create a safe space, using the healing aspects of drama and theatre as the therapeutic process to facilitate creativity, imagination, learning, insight and growth. Drama therapy can help, build confidence and self-esteem, promote a sense of self-worth and encourage involvement, expression and connection with others.
Iben Driffield
Drama Therapist
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Iben Driffield
Iben is the Drama Therapist at Priory Hospital Southampton, working on all three wards (eating disorder unit, acute adult unit and child and adolescent unit), running groups primarily.
She is HCPC registered and a member of Badth – British Association of Drama Therapists. I have worked at Priory since June 2017.
Training
Iben did her Masters in Drama Therapy at University of Roehampton, London
Languages
- Danish
- Swedish
- Norwegian
Research interests
- Third year placement at the eating disorder unit
- Master’s Dissertation on ‘An enquiry into Transference and Countertransference inspired by Gendlin’s Felt Sense, in the therapeutic Relationship in Dramatherapy with young women with Eating Disorders’
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Specialist Areas
Services Offered
Conditions Treated
- Addiction Treatment
- Anger Management
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Anxiety
- Asperger Syndrome
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD and ADD
- Autism
- Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Bereavement
- Binge Eating Disorder (BED)
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
- Bulimia Nervosa
- Depression
- Drug Induced Psychosis
- Eating Disorders
- Mental Health Treatment
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorders (OSFED)
- Personality Disorders
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Schizophrenia
- Self Harm
- Young People’s Services
Qualifications
- Master’s Degree in Drama Therapy