Nicholas Bonacci, CP, PAT -
Certified Psychodramatist and Practitioner Applicant for Trainer
My life journey included sobriety and recovery beginning at age 20, along with deeper healing through 12-step work, codependency recovery, and family trauma work. With that came a dedication to being open to multiple healing paths. I felt as though I was spiritually encouraged to explore teachers, therapists, and mentors who helped me grow in freedom, self-understanding, and purpose, and that journey eventually led me into the work of psychodrama. The journey included time spent with trainers in Arizona, New York, New Jersey and Texas.
Psychodrama has become one of the most meaningful expressions of that work because it invites people to step into the reality of their own lives. It demands honest self awareness. Some call it 'soul drama,' and the main goals of psychodrama are to help one increase their experience of spontaneity and creativity. So with the goal of healing the burdens my soul, I fell right into the heart of the method. I saw others as I see myself and could connect with the glowing Higher Self we all have in the background of our physical bodies.
It is a powerful expressive healing arts method that helped me explore the past, present, and future while becoming more grounded, spontaneous, and free in daily life. My background includes advanced training in psychodrama, trauma therapies, addiction counseling, experiential work, and healing deliverance prayer, and I seek to bring those together in a way that honors each person’s healing journey. I try to follow a simple mission of growth that follows: I have to go after my shadow before it comes after me. If I pursue inner work grounded in the encounter with my unspoken truth, and a life rooted in the creative Healing energy that repairs meaningful connections, then repairs and improvements occur effortlessly in my family and work life. My hope is that all participants who come through CPTI get the benefit of solid and deep understandings on the spirituality of the method, and that they feel invited to heal and move towards a deeper life in serving their goals, their families and communities.
