Jack is an enthusiastic, committed Dramatherapist with an ability to form high quality therapeutic relationships with often hard to reach clients. Jack originally worked with primary age children, using Dramatherapy alongside a broad range of problems including anxiety, self-confidence, school refusal and PTSD. He moved from this to working with college aged adolescents and gained experience managing risky behaviours and working with substance abuse, issues surrounding sexuality, gender identity and trauma.

Through his career at Beacon House Jack has built on these skills, continuing his work with ages from 6 -18 to develop a rich and varied skillset to connect to and support a very broad range of difficult emotional experiences for young people. Jack has learnt to adapt Dramatherapy to work alongside strategic interventions to support adolescents struggling with anxiety in the form of sleep issues, school-based trauma or phobias.

Jack can use Dramatherapy to work on an individual level with young people, or Dyadically with adults and children to create moments of shared joy in a creative, playful space.

Jack is a personable, warm, and compassionate therapist with a keen interest for the explorative process of therapy. He particularly values the act and experience of play, and endeavours to weave playfulness into the therapeutic process wherever it fits well and whatever the age of his client.

Jack came to Dramatherapy through a long-lasting passion for the creative arts especially the theatre and performance. Jack’s journey began working in SEN schools supporting children with complex needs and developmental trauma. Through this work Jack learnt the transformational power of play and how it can be used to support the formation of healthy attachments.

Jack uses creativity in many different ways. These include story making, drawing, sculpting, small world toys and improvised play. This makes Jack’s approach particularly suited to younger children, adolescents or those who struggle to communicate verbally. Jack’s focus with Dramatherapy is using the methods and means to build a safe, secure and trusting therapeutic relationship with a belief that this is the foundation of success in any piece of therapy work.

Jack is registered with HCPC as a Dramatherapist – his membership number is AS16938.

  • MA Dramatherapy – University of Roehampton
    2017-2019
  • BA Drama and Theatre Studies with English – University of Sussex
    2011-2014
  • DDP Level 1 Training
    Family Futures, 28 hours, October 2024
  • Developmental Trauma for Professionals
    Beacon House, 12 hours, November 2023
  • BADth Annual Conference
    BADth, 6.75 hours, September 2023
  • BHSCP Safeguarding Children 3
    Brighton & Hove Safeguarding Children’s partnership, 6 hours, February 2023
  • BHSCP Safeguarding Children 2
    Brighton & Hove Safeguarding Children’s partnership, 6 hours, January 2023
  • BHSCP Safeguarding Children 1
    Brighton & Hove Safeguarding Children’s partnership, 6 hours, January 2023
  • BADth Annual Conference
    BADth, 15 hours, September 2022
  • “A Matter of Life and Death” – Irvin Yalom
    Eventbrite, 1.5 hours, March 2021
  • MINDeD Safeguarding Young People and Vulnerable Young Adults
    MINDeD, 0.5 hours, November 2020
  • Attachment Based Therapeutic Play
    Dr Sue Jennings & NDP.org, 3 hours, October 2020
  • Intercultural good practice
    BADth, 12 hours, November 2019
  • Approach to group therapy with difficult to reach clients
    Roehampton University, 5 hours, September 2019
  • Working with survivors of sexual abuse
    Roehampton University – Christiane Sanderson, 3 hours, September 2019
  • Post Slavery Syndrome: Intergenerational PTSD in the Consulting Room today
    Confer, 2 days, March 2019