Our Team

tHALIA CHAPPELL

Thalia (she/her) has a background in youth work, amassing 8 years of experience in group facilitation and wellbeing support prior to her training in dramatherapy.

Her interest in creative spaces geared towards the promotion of emotional growth was sparked by work with children and young people. However, Thalia has experience working with adults therapeutically too.

Thalia’s playful and collaborative approach is rooted in storytelling and metaphor, and aims to honour your unique way of expressing yourself.

She is also a puppet artist and researcher. In her research, Thalia has found that she is interested in the following themes as they relate to dramatherapy practice:

  • Personal narrative and its relationship to truth

  • Autism and “masking”

  • LGBT “flagging” and other identity-based performance practices

  • Emotional dysregulation and personality disorder

  • Neurodivergence in women and girls

  • Preserving dignity in the therapeutic alliance

  • Honouring client spirituality in secular therapeutic spaces

Thalia is a fully-qualified, HCPC-accredited, and insured dramatherapist based in Glasgow. As a registered member of The British Association of Dramatherapists, Thalia works in accordance with their code of ethics.

Liane gallagher

Liane (she/her) has always had a keen interest in hearing people’s stories, and in exploring the stories we tell ourselves.

After beginning her career working in theatre, Liane moved into healthcare, in administrative and support worker roles. In these settings, she encountered and cared for (among others) people experiencing homelessness, asylum seekers, and people with eating disorders. Across different experiences of marginalisation, she was fascinated to see common threads in the stories that were shared.

Liane’s work seeks to hold space for those whose stories go untold or unheard, creating an opportunity to give voice to important life experiences. The relationship between client and therapist is central to her practice, inviting curiosity and play to see what stories emerge.

Liane’s approach is free-flowing, instinctive, and uses a variety of somatic and sensory approaches to empower embodied creativity. Centring love, compassion, and care as the nurturing conditions for your positive growth, her greatest priority is ensuring that you have agency, so that your therapeutic relationship can be a place for you to be truly heard.

Liane is equipped to work with clients of all ages experiencing emotional dysregulation, and has a particular interest in working with women who are navigating transition into new stages of life.

Liane is a fully-qualified, HCPC-accredited, and insured dramatherapist based in Glasgow. As a registered member of The British Association of Dramatherapists, Liane works in accordance with their code of ethics.

Thalia and Liane are a warm and friendly cofacilitation partnership. They met as classmates on their MSc training course, which they completed to become HCPC-accredited dramatherapists. During their time as trainees, they found that their respective approaches to facilitation, storytelling, and listening were complementary, and they each benefitted greatly from observing the other at work. Their shared experience of this powerful time of learning has enabled a fluency in their communication, meaning that they can work together with care to hold a safe, exploratory space for your creative expression. Thalia and Liane cofacilitate dramatherapy groups and creative-expressive (non-therapy) workshops for groups of 4 or more clients, and both individually facilitate 1:1 dramatherapy.