Pete Holloway

Dramatherapy and Clinical Practice (Personality Disorders, Forensic)
Dramatherapy and Closure

Pete Holloway is a full-time Dramatherapist for East Kent Community NHS Trust and has been a senior, visiting lecturer, on the postgraduate Diploma in Dramatherapy formerly at The Institute of Dramatherapy Roehampton and currently at Roehampton University for the past nine years. He is currently a Year Tutor and lectures on psychology and psychopathology but has also taught the modules “Dramatherapy and Myth”, “Dramatherapy and the Art of Structure” and “Dramatherapy and Closure”. He has worked as a Dramatherapist in a wide variety of mental health settings over the last thirteen years. He currently offers specialist intervention in violence, offending and personality disorders to two community mental health teams, a consultancy role to a number of other in-patient and out-patient services, and is a member of two multi-disciplinary family therapy teams. Originally from a background of Community Theatre in South Wales mining communities, he has become increasingly interested in how the notions of oral history, narrative and metaphor can be applied to complex and troubling experiences within the clinical space. He has recently established, along with colleagues from a range of psychotherapy backgrounds, "Work in Process" - which offers training and supervision to voluntary sector organisations and to specialist counselling services across Kent.