Clancy Williams

A highly experienced HCPC-registered Dramatherapist and Clinical Supervisor with over 20 years of practice spanning direct therapeutic work, consultancy, training, and issue-based performance. Clancy brings exceptional depth in trauma-informed, culturally affirming, and creative-expressive approaches, with a particular expertise in supporting individuals of African and Caribbean descent and other marginalised communities. She offers a rare combination of clinical rigour, lived cultural understanding, and innovative therapeutic programming – working confidently across individual, group, in-person, and online modalities.

Drama Psychotherapist & Integrative Clinical Supervisor - Power2 / Yoo-recruit (Wolverhampton LA) - Wolverhampton

(2020-09)

• Deliver trauma-informed Drama Psychotherapy for vulnerable children, young people, and adults with complex needs including neurodivergence, ACEs, and family trauma.
• Provide clinical guidance, ARC framework-based supervision, and safeguarding workshops for staff and partner agencies.
• Conduct clinical assessments, therapeutic plans, risk assessments, and clinical report writing; contribute to multi-agency partnership meetings.
• Design creative resources to support understanding of trauma, thought, feeling, and behaviour in complex ACE presentations.

Clinical Integrative Supervisor - Private Practice - Online & In-Person

(2020-09)

• Offer individual and group clinical supervision to therapists and public-facing professionals across a range of modalities.
• Specialist focus on cultural supervision, intersectionality, and supervising practitioners working with marginalised communities.

Professional Psychotherapy – Public Facing Professionals - Private Agency

(2018-07)

• Provide psychotherapy and creative-expressive practices tailored to the occupational identity and wellbeing needs of public-facing professionals.

Drama Psychotherapy Consultant & In-Patient Supervisor - St Mary's Hospice, Birmingham - Birmingham

(2017-05 - 2019-07)

• Designed and delivered a full Hospice Therapy Programme with robust assessment and evaluation tools.
• Provided monthly creative work-based supervision for nursing staff in the In-Patient Unit.

Consultant Drama Psychotherapist - HMP Hewell, Redditch - Redditch

(2016-09 - 2018-07)

• Devised, delivered and evaluated a modular Dramatherapy programme for male prisoners.
• Lead Trainer on Race Discrimination; Clinical Supervision Lead for senior staff on emotional resilience.
• Therapeutic adviser to the Governor on prison reform initiatives.

Drama Psychotherapist & Supervisor (Post-Adoption) - Chroma Arts Psychotherapy Service

(2016-11 - 2019-07)

• Worked with adopted children and families using creative-expressive attachment practices; delivered family systemic parenting support.

Drama Psychotherapist - Pattigift African-Centred Psychotherapy Service, Birmingham - Birmingham

(2015-03)

• Deliver culturally centred Dramatherapy for clients with clinical depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety; specialist focus on African/African-Caribbean adults over 50.
• Lead for the Healing Circles UK programme.

Lead Drama Psychotherapist & Consultant - Westminster School, Rowley Regis - Rowley Regis

(2012-09 - 2016-07)

• Advised on SEND therapeutic interventions; supervised Dramatherapy placement students.
• Delivered group therapy for primary-to-secondary and secondary-to-college transition cohorts.

Director & Consultant Dramatherapist - Angels Without Wings Ltd, Birmingham - Birmingham

(2011-07 - 2017-07)

• Led consultancy and issue-based workshops for NHS, local authority, hospice, and community organisations.
• Programmes included trauma transitions for domestic abuse survivors, attachment and intersectionality workshops, and Creative Cultural Development.

Master Trainer, Assessor & Facilitator - Stanford University Self-Management Programme, USA/UK - USA/UK

(2007-09 - 2009-07)

• Delivered and assessed evidence-based Self-Management Programmes across the UK; co-wrote and evaluated formal training materials to Stanford/UK standards.
• Lead Trainer for anti-racist practice.

Training & Quality Lead - Department of Health – Expert Patients Programme, Central Region - North West and West Midlands

(2003-02 - 2011-03)

• Managed budget and training for the Expert Patients Programme across the North West and West Midlands.
• Led trainer/assessor training and quality-assured manuals in line with Stanford University standards.

MA - Dramatherapy

Diploma - Integrative Supervision

Diploma - Black Psychology & African Centred Counselling

Diploma - Person-Centred Counselling

Certificate - Cultural Supervision

Teacher Trainer - Mindfulness

Master Trainer & Assessor - Expert Patient Programme - Stanford University

BA - Media Studies (Race & Culture)

BSL Levels 1 & 2