About Lauren Mirabai
I am a drama therapist with a Master’s in clinical mental health counseling. I deeply believe in the healing power of creativity, embodiment, story, and play. My work is grounded in the understanding that people are more than their symptoms, diagnoses, or painful experiences. We are complex, creative, relational beings, often carrying many roles within us at once.
My clinical background includes facilitating both individual and group therapy, integrating drama therapy with approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), person-centered counseling, and trauma-informed care. I have worked with clients navigating anxiety, depression, substance use recovery, life transitions, emotional overwhelm, self-image, identity, and relationship patterns.
Before becoming a therapist, I came from the world of theatre, where I learned how powerful it can be to step into a role, tell a story, be witnessed, and imagine something new. Drama therapy brings these worlds together. It allows us to use creativity not as an escape from real life, but as a way to rehearse, explore, express, and transform it.
My approach is warm, collaborative, compassionate, and gently experiential. I believe therapy should offer enough structure to feel safe and enough freedom for something new to emerge.
At Threshold Studios, I offer individual drama therapy, creative wellness workshops, and drama therapy-informed groups for individuals, universities, clinical programs, and community organizations.
What I Offer
Individual Drama Therapy
One-on-one drama therapy sessions offer a creative, compassionate space to explore what you are feeling, carrying, and becoming. Sessions may include conversation, role exploration, story, metaphor, writing, drawing, or gentle creative reflection depending on your needs and comfort level.
Online & Local Sessions
Sessions are currently available online, with limited local availability in the Greenville, SC area. Together, we can discuss what kind of support you are looking for and whether online or in-person drama therapy feels like the best fit.
Creative, Experiential Support
Drama therapy can support people navigating anxiety, emotional overwhelm, burnout, life transitions, identity exploration, relationship patterns, self-expression, confidence, creativity, and feeling stuck. You do not need to be an actor or performer. The focus is not performance, but process, insight, and growth.
Workshops & Groups by Inquiry
I also offer creative workshops and drama therapy-informed groups for organizations, universities, theatre programs, wellness spaces, and clinical settings by inquiry. These offerings can be shaped around themes such as wellbeing, communication, self-expression, emotional regulation, identity, creativity, and connection.
Connect with Me
Please reach out if you are interested in booking a free 15-minute consultation. This is a chance for us to briefly connect, talk through what you are looking for, and explore whether Threshold Studios feels like the right fit for your needs.
Together, we can discuss your goals, what kind of support you are seeking, and what working together might look like.
For individual clients, please include a brief note about what you are looking for support with and whether you are interested in online or local services in the Greenville, SC area.
For organizations, please include the type of setting, the audience you serve, the approximate group size, and any themes or goals you would like a workshop, group, or creative therapeutic offering to address.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Frequently Asked Questions
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I currently offer individual drama therapy sessions for adults, available online with limited local availability in the Greenville, SC area. I also offer creative workshops and drama therapy-informed groups for organizations, universities, theatre programs, wellness spaces, and clinical settings by inquiry.
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You can start by reaching out to request a free 15-minute consultation. This gives us a chance to briefly connect, discuss what you are looking for, and explore whether Threshold Studios feels like the right fit for your needs.
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Drama therapy is defined by the North American Drama Therapy Association as “the intentional use of drama and/or theater processes to achieve therapeutic goals.” It is an active, embodied, and experiential approach that may include story, role, metaphor, movement, creative expression, reflection, and gentle enactment.
Rather than relying on conversation alone, drama therapy offers creative ways to explore emotions, relationships, patterns, goals, and inner experiences. You do not need to be an actor or performer to participate. The focus is not performance, but using creativity and imagination as pathways toward insight, expression, healing, and personal growth.
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Working with me means entering a warm, collaborative space where we can explore your experiences through both conversation and creative process. Drama therapy is described by the North American Drama Therapy Association as an active, embodied, and experiential approach that uses drama and theatre processes to support therapeutic goals. In practice, this means we do not only talk about what is happening in your life; when helpful, we may also explore it through story, role, metaphor, movement, writing, imagination, or gentle enactment.
A session might include talking through what you are carrying, naming the different “roles” or parts of yourself that feel present, exploring an inner conflict through metaphor, practicing a difficult conversation, creating a short scene or image, writing from the voice of a feeling, or using grounding and embodiment to notice what is happening in your body. The work is always paced with care, and we will decide together what feels useful, accessible, and safe.
You do not need to be an actor, performer, or especially outgoing to participate in drama therapy. You also do not have to “perform” your pain. The focus is not on being dramatic or doing something correctly. The focus is on using creativity as a pathway toward self-understanding, emotional expression, flexibility, and change.
My approach is gentle, relational, and collaborative. I bring clinical training, drama therapy tools, and a deep respect for your lived experience. You bring your story, your questions, your hopes, your hesitations, and your own pace. Together, we use the creative process to help you better understand where you are, what feels stuck, and what new ways of being might be possible.
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Individual drama therapy sessions are $100 per 50-minute session. A limited number of sliding scale spaces may be available. If cost is a barrier, you are welcome to ask about reduced-fee options during your free consultation. At this time, I do not accept insurance.
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What makes this work different is that we do not only talk about your experiences. We can also give them shape, voice, image, movement, distance, and possibility. An inner conflict might become a dialogue between parts of yourself. A feeling might become a character, image, or metaphor. A difficult conversation might be rehearsed safely before you try it in your life. A story you have carried for a long time might be explored from a new role, a new perspective, or a new ending.
At Threshold Studios, the creative process is held with clinical care, emotional safety, and therapeutic intention. The goal is not to perform, entertain, or be “good” at drama. The goal is to create a space where your inner experience can be explored more fully, where new roles and responses can be practiced, and where insight can move from something you understand in your mind into something you can feel, embody, and carry into your life.