Catharsis Theater: A Healing Space for Mental Health Professionals

Catharsis Theater: A Healing Space for Mental Health Professionals

📅 Sunday, January 11, 2026
🕐 1:00–4:00 PM (Doors open at 12:30 PM)
📍 Blue Door Theater | Culver City, CA

🎉 New Year’s Offering: Free attendance for this January gathering
🚗 Free parking available
☕ Light food and coffee provided
💬 Open to graduate students, associates, and licensed professionals

This event is offered as a gesture of care and community for those who hold space for others. Registration is required to receive location details and optional preparation materials.

For mental health professionals carrying what the work leaves behind.

Be witnessed. Find release. Feel less alone.

We hold space for others every day.
And still, we carry our own grief.

Clients we think about after hours.
Losses we never fully processed.
Burnout that lingers beneath competence.
Moral injury, system fatigue, and quiet despair.
Political, spiritual, and collective grief that seeps into the work.

You do not need a diagnosis to be affected by this work.
And not everything calls for therapy.
But clinicians, too, deserve a place to breathe, feel, and be witnessed.

What Is Catharsis Theater?

Catharsis Theater is a trauma-informed, psychodrama-inspired gathering that uses experiential group methods to help participants process emotions, restore connection, and find emotional release. It draws on psychodrama, sociometry, and experiential group methods that many clinicians first encountered in graduate school and training, and that shaped much of modern group practice in the 20th century.

Catharsis Theater brings this lineage into the present, offering an embodied, experiential space shaped in real time by the clinicians in the room.

Not therapy. Not a performance.
No diagnosis. No fixing.
Just presence, honesty, and release.

Who Is This For?

This space is for mental health professionals and trainees who are human and feeling. You are welcome if you are 21+ and navigating:

• Anxiety, stress, or emotional overload
• Burnout, compassion fatigue, or caregiver strain
• Grief, loss, or mourning (personal or professional)
• Life transitions or shifts in identity
• Emotional stuckness, silence, or longing
• A world that often feels like too much

What to Expect

• Structured, trauma-informed practices to safely explore stress, change, and emotional residue
• Voluntary sharing and experiential, creative exploration
• Group processes that foster connection and mutual support
• Body-based tools to reconnect with sensation, emotion, and regulation
• A respectful space to be seen without judgment or pressure

Important Notes

• Participation is always voluntary; you choose your level of engagement
• Please respect and protect the confidentiality of all participants
• Free to attend
• Registrants will receive directions, event details, and optional preparation materials