Creative, HCPC-registered dramatherapy for children, adults, families and schools across the West Midlands and South Staffordshire.
Welcome To Creative
Solutions Therapy
Creative Solutions Therapy is a dramatherapy service based in Wombourne, South Staffordshire, run by Dr Clive Holmwood. We work with adults, children, families, groups and schools across the West Midlands and South Staffordshire, offering interventions tailored to each person’s needs.
Dramatherapy uses play, storytelling, role, movement and imagination to help people explore difficult feelings and experiences safely. It can be especially helpful for people who find it hard to put things into words.
Sessions are based on need: there is no minimum or maximum number. All our dramatherapists are HCPC registered and fully insured.
Who we work with
Experienced, Registered And Here to Help
Dr Clive Holmwood has used drama to help people for over 35 years, in the NHS, fostering services, schools and private practice. He is HCPC registered, a full member of the British Association of Dramatherapists and a BADth approved supervisor and former Associate Professor in Therapeutic Arts from the University of Derby.
Qualified as a dramatherapist
Years in drama and dramatherapy
Training topics for professionals and carers
Books written and edited
Our services
Dramatherapy For Individuals, Families And Groups
One-to-one, family and group dramatherapy for children and adults, in clinic, at school or in your setting. Each piece of work is planned around the person’s needs, with regular reviews. CST dramatherapy service covers Wolverhampton, Dudley, Birmingham, Stafford and surrounding areas.
Training For Professionals And Foster Carers
Full and half-day courses on mental health, attachment, trauma, play, Neuro-Dramatic-Play, autism and ADHD, self-harm and dementia. Every course combines direct teaching with creative, practical activities and draws on recent research.
Supervision And Reflective Practice
Reflective practice sessions, clinical supervision and support groups for professionals and foster carers, from a British Association of Dramatherapists approved supervisor.
Latest book
The Handbook of Neuro-Dramatic-Play
Edited by Dr Clive Holmwood and Dr Sue Jennings (Routledge, 2026). A practical guide to Neuro-Dramatic-Play, the cross-cultural, attachment-based approach originated by Sue Jennings, for clinicians, therapists, teachers and parents.
With contributors from around the world, the book covers the science behind NDP, work with neurodivergent and traumatised children, NDP in arts and play therapy, and case studies from settings including Malaysia, Greece, India, Africa, forensic services and young onset dementia.
Recent book
Games For Building Secure Relationships In The Early Years
Dr Clive Holmwood (2023). A practical guide to play for children from birth to 7, for carers, professionals and therapists. Over 70 playful games and activities to help adults and children build a secure relationship based on trust and attachment.
Available at a discount alongside training: please ask.