Jennifer Richards

Drama Therapist

Jennifer T. Richards is the founder of It’s Yours. Creative Healing. She graduated from New York University in 2011 with a Master’s in Drama Therapy and is an NYS Licensed Creative arts therapist (LCAT).

She has worked in adult inpatient psychiatry and outpatient substance use disorder in hospitals/institutions for the past 11 years.

She uses drama therapy to teach coping skills and addresses trauma, anxiety, depression, adult children of alcoholics, feeling of abandonment, and people-pleasing.

As a result of the therapeutic interventions, the clients demonstrate increased self-esteem, expansion of coping skills, increased participation and retention, and movement through the stages of change. In addition to her work with clients, she has facilitated group programs for staff to engage in creativity and self-expression to reduce stress and compassion fatigue.

Jadea Harris

Drama Therapist

Jadae Harris, LCAT is a drama therapist working at NYC Health & Hospitals, on Child & Adolescent inpatient psychiatry unit. She specializes in patient centered care with an ambition to deconstruct the norms traditional therapy approach through her creative lens providing her clients with wholistic (mind, body & spiritual) care. She lives by the quote “tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn” (Benjamin Franklin). She believe in the co-creating process of therapy, with a desire to meet her clients where they are.

Linda Soria

Drama Therapist

Linda Soria, MA, LCAT is a psychotherapist and drama therapist based in NYC, providing psychotherapeutic treatment for English and Spanish-speaking individuals. 

In addition to her  drama therapy training, she is trained in the trauma treatment Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). Her main areas of focus are with individuals experiencing psychosis, racialized/complex/intergenerational trauma, cultural identity issues, and anxiety. 

In addition to her work as a therapist, Linda is also a professional musician and actor- two art forms she brings into her clinical practice; whether it be offering a ‘Hip Hop Drama Therapy’ approach in the clinical space or stage managing a therapeutic theatre show. She identifies as an Ecuadorian-American, light-skinned, brown, heterosexual, cisgendered, able-bodied, English & Spanish speaking female. Without dismissing her marginalization and oppressive experiences, she acknowledges her intersecting identities and positionalities to help confront her own biases and privileges in an effort to build an ethical and co-collaborative therapeutic alliance with the individuals she serves.

Javere Pinnock

Art Therapist

I’m an artist, art therapist and professor. I use art to help people redefine their narrative, and to release psychological stress. I’m Jamaican and passionate about culture and representation, and how story and art can be used story to redefine limiting narratives. There’s medicine in our ancestry and the culture we are building today. I strive to use all that to help promote mental health and growth.

Dominique Darrell

Drama Therapist - Vocational Lead Consultant

Dominique is a Black American Drama Therapist who is a NYC native and graduate of NYU Steinhardt and Hunter College. She currently works as a Clinical Creative Arts Therapist Supervisor at a hospital in the Metropolitan area. 

Dominique is also a credentialed Rehabilitation Counselor. She has over 13 years of clinical experience, having treated adolescent, adult, and the geriatric population with a wide range of mental health, substance abuse, cognitive and physical challenges. 

Dominique is passionate about utilizing expressive and creative techniques that improve personal and cognitive development as well as foster empowerment, community, connection, empathy and celebrates and explores identity and culture, especially in the Black and Brown communities in which she serves and comes from.

Erin Bryce Holmes

Dance Movement Therapist

Erin Bryce Holmes, MS, LCAT, BC-DMT, CASAC-T, apprenticed with Urban Bush Women, was a principal dancer with Kariamu & Company: Traditions, African American Dance Ensemble, Tania Isaac Dance, Dance Theatre X, Denovo, Ephrat Asherie Dance and with Bill T. Jones developing FELA! She guest lectures at various institutions such as Pratt Institute.

Erin co-led the plenary event for the ADTA/NDEO collaboration and the Expressive Therapies conference closing. She presents choreography throughout the east coast.

Erin is a performer for the following companies:

  • Ase Dance Theater Collective, Licensed Creative Arts Therapist
  • Interfaith Medical Center, certified Umfundalai instructor, co-facilitator
  • Black Batey and director
  • Bryce Entertainment, LLC

ADAM D-F. STEVENS

Registered Drama Therapist

They are a Registered Drama Therapist (RDT) who works at the Hetrick-Martin Institute, a non-profit organization that serves LGBTQAI+ youth in NYC. Their role includes supporting queer youth in transforming their loss and grief into unapologetic, abundant joy and empowerment. 

Previously, Adam worked at the Cooke School & Institute, NYC, guiding young people with developmental and intellectual differences. They are alumni of Marymount Manhattan College and New York University where their areas of study included Theatre Arts and Drama Therapy respectively. Adam serves as an adjunct faculty member in the Creative Arts Therapy Programs at Antioch University in Seattle, and New York University and Marymount Manhattan College in NYC. They have sat on the Board of Directors for the North American Drama Therapy Association (NADTA) as Chair of the Cultural Humility, Equity, and Diversity Committee. Adam is a political and social justice theatre practitioner who has performed, directed, and choreographed throughout North America. In 2020, they were named Artistic Director for the CollideOscope Repertory Theatre Company (CRTC) whose mission is to advance racial justice and healing through artful affinity and performance. 

Adam works as a diversity, equity, and inclusion specialist supporting organizations and schools worldwide. In 2021, they were invited to be Drama Therapist-in-Residence with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Adam has more recently connected with several Off-Broadway and university theatre companies as an actor’s advocate and emotional wellness consultant. Inspired by Dr. Robert Landy’s Role Method and Role Theory in drama therapy, Adam has presented on and is developing the Black American Role Taxonomy, or BART, offering space for Black clients to reclaim racialized roles and deconstruct stereotypes appropriated by privileged others. Adam’s superpowers are rooted in the fantastical forces of creativity and love.