Laurel Psychodrama Training Institute – Psychodrama Training in Laurel MD

Welcome to LPTI

Holistic. Experiential. Integrative.

ABOUT LPTI

"Don’t be satisfied with stories of how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” – Rumi

Psychodrama Training Rooted in Possibility and Protection

Experiential learning in psychodrama, sociometry, and group psychotherapy, guided by a recovery-oriented and trauma-informed framework.

At LPTI, our work reflects a commitment to balancing possibility and protection—supporting spontaneity, creativity, and role expansion while attending carefully to resourcing, choice, and the conditions that support meaningful change.

LPTI Brief 2026 Training

The LPTI Framework

Balancing Possibility and Protection is a brief introduction to LPTI’s approach to psychodrama practice and teaching, integrating classical psychodrama with contemporary recovery-oriented and trauma-informed perspectives in practice and teaching. Read the full brief.

What Distinguishes LPTI

Experiential Learning — engaging body, emotions, and imagination
Recovery-Oriented Perspective — emphasizing strengths, agency, and role expansion
Trauma-Informed Approach — attending to pacing, readiness, and integration
Integrated Training Model — linking theory, skills, personal growth, and application

At LPTI, our philosophy and methods are expressed through a holistic, integrative, and experiential approach to healing, growth, and learning:

Holistic

At LPTI, we believe in tending to the whole person. Psychodrama invites us to engage the body, mind, emotions, relationships, and spirit—not in isolation, but as interconnected aspects of experience. A holistic approach honors this complexity and supports healing, growth, and creativity across these dimensions.

Integrative

Contemporary neuroscience affirms what Moreno intuited: healing and growth emerge through integration. According to Dan Siegel, integration—linking differentiated parts into a coherent whole—is central to wellbeing. At LPTI, we integrate theory and practice, science and creativity, and the many dimensions of the self to support meaningful and lasting change.

Experiential

Real change comes not only from understanding, but from experience. Psychodrama is often considered the grandparent of experiential therapies, engaging participants in embodied, action-based learning. As adult learning expert David Kolb describes, learning is most powerful when it includes doing, reflecting, conceptualizing, and experimenting. At LPTI, we create opportunities for deep learning through meaningful, real-time experience.