Franci Dumar Email & Phone Number

Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States

Provides Expressive Therapy/Drama Therapy to clients who are living at home or in a community/facility. This therapy is intended to address symptoms such as anxiety and depression as well as provide meaningful engagement for clients who are experiencing memory loss and other cognitive conditions.Performs assessments and creates a treatment plan including which modalities will be used for each client. Coordinates with staff and other individuals related to the client and their treatment team.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

At Folklearn, Franci DuMar’s mission is to assist parents in using Story-Based Play methods to communicate with children with more success, ease, insight, and playfulness.

Arlington, Massachusetts, United States

Arlington, Massachusetts, United States

• Co-created and coordinated a month-long virtual Playback Conference for 200 Playback artists across North America• Developed, marketed, and facilitated paid programs for Bystander Intervention seminar trainings, along with virtual performances for children and adults• Assisted development of a ‘Playback in Schools’ publication for 2022• Co-created a virtual Playback Library outlining methods for delivering Playback Theatre to audiences virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic• Recruited donations to the nonprofit through creating engaging video media content shared on social media.

Greater Boston

Medway, Massachusetts, United States

1. Leading weekly individual therapy and SEL groups for special education high school students in the ACCEPT Academic Therapeutic Program. 2. Documenting students progress towards their IEP goals and objectives, along with reviewing and writing evaluations and reports.3. Collaborating with outside family and providers to support students well-rounded care.4. Working with other program staff to create and implement effective academic, therapeutic, and behavioral plans.5. Integrating intermodal expressive arts therapy directives into therapeutic practice in individual and group settings.6. Implementing safe and responsive crisis care for students experiencing emotional dysregulation at school.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Belmont, Massachusetts, United States

• Formulated and facilitated ten psychotherapeutic group therapy sessions weekly on topics including interpersonal skill, dialectical behavioral therapy and expressive arts/drama therapy• Met individually with patients to provide psychotherapy using drama therapy techniques• Assessed patients’ mental and emotional status and communicated clinical impressions in daily treatment rounds with case managers and physicians• Supported patient advancement towards treatment goals and documented progress in treatment notes

Natick, Massachusetts, United States

• TA in Elementary school classroom with students with speech related issues, and emotional, behavioral, and intellectual differences• Certified Safety Care Trained through QBS, Inc., and the state of Massachusetts in 2019• Independently deescalated threatening situations in which students are attempting harm of themselves, and/or others• Documented students’ behaviors, and implementing interventions in accordance with their academic and behavioral plans• Independently organized and taught lessons to students utilizing art and drama to express emotion and develop coping strategies for real life conflicts

Dorchester, Massachusetts, United States

• Facilitated social-emotional groups for Kindergarten through Second Grade students daily online• Conducted one-on-one weekly clinical sessions with a student to improve virtual engagement • Curated and produced bi-weekly social-emotional video lessons and activities for students

Manchester, New Hampshire, United States

● Assistant directed a psychodrama therapy group for college students and clients ● Actively helped clients who have trauma build coping skills and diminish dissociative behavior through psychodramatic and sociodramatic methods● Completed administrative duties such as answered phones, carrying out client intakes, and managing files and the patient database● Assisted in planning the Annual Psychodrama Conference for May 2019

Master'S Degree, Mental Health Counseling & Drama Therapy

Bachelor'S Degree, Expressive Arts Therapy & Holistic Psychology