Psychodrama Therapy
Maria Zemlinskaya
Psychodrama Therapy
Maria Zemlinskaya
When experiences from the past — including trauma or abuse — that still influence the present; struggles with confidence or self-worth; anxiety, low mood, stress, or burnout; relationship and family challenges; periods of change or transition; and grief and loss or if life just feels as too much.
Psychodrama is a therapeutic method that sees mental health difficulties as blocked creativity. We work not only with words, but also with the body, role-play, and spontaneity. By bringing the inner world into outer space, feelings, behaviours, and beliefs can be explored in the here and now, helping you understand yourself more fully and find practical ways to respond to life’s challenges.
Services and Prices
One to one consultation
(in person)
(in person)
from £70
50-minute sessions offering focused time and space for personal work.
Free first session.
Sessions take place in Islington or Hackney.
Free first session.
Sessions take place in Islington or Hackney.
One to one consultation
(Online)
(Online)
from £50
Free first session.
Each session will take 50 minutes.
Each session will take 50 minutes.
Experiential Weekends
£ 180
(Early Bird £150)
(Early Bird £150)
Two-day workshops with a specific focus for deeper exploration.
Click here to book tickets for Echoes Through Generations on 27 & 28 September 2025
Click here to book tickets for Echoes Through Generations on 27 & 28 September 2025
Long-term Psychodrama Group
£ 40
Weekly 3-hour meetings with up to 6 participants, creating an intimate and supportive space to share, explore, and grow together.
No places currently available.
No places currently available.
If you are on a low income, unemployed, or experiencing financial hardship, please let me know. I am happy to discuss options for offering therapy at a reduced rate.
Experiential Weekends
Upcoming Weekend
Echoes Through Generations:
A Therapeutic Exploration of Stories We Inherit
Sat. 27 & Sun. 28 September 2025 | 10am-5pm | Islington
A Therapeutic Exploration of Stories We Inherit
Sat. 27 & Sun. 28 September 2025 | 10am-5pm | Islington
Unearth family history, inherited messages, unspoken rules, and shushed feelings. Reshape your story with tenderness and curiosity.
In this 2-day psychodrama workshop, we’ll explore the unseen threads that connect us to previous generations — the beliefs, emotions, and roles we’ve inherited, often without realising it.
Through role-play and group sharing, you’ll have the opportunity to:
- Discover how cultural and historic contexts relate to your current lived experiences
- Explore complex family relationships in a safe environment
- Learn to let go of some limiting past beliefs and experiences
- Find internalised figures of support and acceptance that can help you in the future
- Create new worldviews and connections for yourself and others
This weekend is open to anyone curious about personal development, family systems, or experiential therapeutic work.
Upcoming Weekend
Echoes Through Generations:
A Therapeutic Exploration of Stories We Inherit
Sat. 27 & Sun. 28 September 2025
10am-5pm
Islington
Unearth family history, inherited messages, unspoken rules, and shushed feelings. Reshape your story with tenderness and curiosity.
Echoes Through Generations:
A Therapeutic Exploration of Stories We Inherit
Sat. 27 & Sun. 28 September 2025
10am-5pm
Islington
Unearth family history, inherited messages, unspoken rules, and shushed feelings. Reshape your story with tenderness and curiosity.
In this 2-day psychodrama workshop, we’ll explore the unseen threads that connect us to previous generations — the beliefs, emotions, and roles we’ve inherited, often without realising it.
Through role-play and group sharing, you’ll have the opportunity to:
- Discover how cultural and historic contexts relate to your current lived experiences
- Explore complex family relationships in a safe environment
- Learn to let go of some limiting past beliefs and experiences
- Find internalised figures of support and acceptance that can help you in the future
- Create new worldviews and connections for yourself and others
This weekend is open to anyone curious about personal development, family systems, or experiential therapeutic work.
Maria Zemlinskaya
Psychodrama Therapist
We all want to feel more at ease in ourselves — more grounded, more whole.
I offer an integrative approach to therapy, with psychodrama at its core — a dynamic, creative method that uses action and role-play to explore emotions, relationships, and inner experiences. Each session is shaped by your unique needs, guided by both structure and spontaneity to support insight and real change.
I offer an integrative approach to therapy, with psychodrama at its core — a dynamic, creative method that uses action and role-play to explore emotions, relationships, and inner experiences. Each session is shaped by your unique needs, guided by both structure and spontaneity to support insight and real change.
- Qualifications
- BPA (British Psychodrama Association) trainee member
- Certified in Psychodrama by the Institute of Group and Family Therapy (Moscow)
- Two years of post-graduate study in Humanistic Person-Centred Understanding Therapy at MGPPU (Moscow)
- MA Applied Theatre Goldsmith
- MFA Theatre Directing (Birkbeck/RADA)
- Currently studying for Postgraduate Diploma in Psychodrama Group and Individual Psychotherapy (London Psychodrama Centre)
- Experience
- Over 15 years of experience facilitating group workshops in education, therapy and theatre
- Worked internationally - United Kingdom, Russia, Israel, China, Georgia
- Led therapeutic and theatre groups in educational institutions, theatres, psychiatric clinics, and charitable organisations
- Past clients have included professionals such as doctors and teachers, bilingual teenagers and their parents, as well as vulnerable communities, among others.
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Contact
+44 7796 088228
maria.zemlinskaya@gmail.com
maria.zemlinskaya@gmail.com
