Practitioners at Lightwell Studio
Lightwell Studio opened in February 2026. We’re currently building our community of regular practitioners. If you’re looking to rent the space, you can find details on Hire the Studio.
Lightwell Studio is home to a small number of independent practitioners offering different approaches to therapy and therapeutic support. Each practitioner works in their own way and manages their own bookings, policies, and client work.
Lightwell Studio provides the physical space. Each practitioner is responsible for their own clinical practice, safeguarding, confidentiality, record-keeping, and insurance.
Below are the practitioners currently working from Lightwell Studio. Each person brings their own approach and manages their own practice independently.
Hannah Darby — Dramatherapist
Works with: children, adolescents and adults (including post-adoption contexts)
Approach: Dramatherapy (psychotherapy) with a trauma-informed, attachment-aware, relational style. Creative and symbolic ways of working—play, metaphor, story, movement and image-making—offered collaboratively and consent-led.
You might come for:
- adoption / post-adoption experiences, identity and belonging
- attachment and relationship difficulties
- anxiety, overwhelm, or feeling “stuck”
- loss, transitions, and complicated family feelings
- experiences that are hard to put into words
- Contact: hannahdarby.co.uk / hannahdarbydramatherapy@gmail.com
Bio:
Hannah Darby is an HCPC-registered dramatherapist and the founder of Lightwell Studio. She offers 1:1 dramatherapy (psychotherapy) for children, adolescents and adults, with a particular interest in post-adoption experiences, attachment and identity. Hannah’s work is warm, reflective and collaborative, grounded in trauma-informed, attachment-aware practice. Sessions may include play, creativity, metaphor, story, movement and image-making alongside talking—without performance and without needing to be “creative”. Lightwell Studio was created to make room for therapy that needs imagination, materials, movement and play.
This page will be updated as our community grows If you’re a practitioner interested in joining the studio, you can find details on the Hire the Studio page.
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