Most people assume that the dramatherapist participates in the ongoing drama with the client Yet often the dramatherapist is not wholly within the drama, serving instead as a witness, director, or sidecoach to the action. In private practice settings, it is not uncommon for creative arts therapists of all types to participate less and less with their clients. The pressures for objectivity, for distance from sexual or intimate transferences, and for verbal processing, lead many a dramat.herapist to remain outside their own medium, and leave the drama to the client. The verbal therapist enters the client's world through empathy, an internal operation. The therapist remains seated, receptive, wise.