ABOUT

Larry is a registered dramatherapist (RDT, NADTA) and a certified hypnotherapist (IMDHA). He is also a certified Jeremy Krauss Approach Therapist for children with developmental disabilities and a internationally certified Feldenkrais Method practitioner. For other therapeutic training, he has also completed a professional diploma in Satir Model family therapy and Psychodrama. He is also now in training of Therapeutic Spiral Model of Psychodrama, and is studying Neuro-Dramatic-Play under Sue Jennings.

 

He has worked for years as therapist to serve teenagers with SEN (special educational needs) in school settings and youth in crisis in shelter house settings, besides emotionally disturbed adults and highly stressed parents with challenging children in NGO settings as well as private practice setting. He serves also mental health rehabilitants, people suffering from a variety of mental health issues (anxiety disorders, depression, schizophrenia, addictions, etc.) and other minority groups. He has more than 1500 hours of clinical practice experience up till now.

 

As an artist he completed his full-time professional training in Physical and Devising Theatre (Lecoq approach) and Corporeal Mime (Decroux system), and is specialized in using mask, designing mask and making mask; he was invited by the international mime festival to perform and to give masterclass. 

 

He is also a playback theatre practitioner who has completed all four levels of the internationally recognized training, including the Playback Theater Leadership program, and has more than 10 years of on-going experience. He was a member of the education reformation committee of the Center of Playback Theater, US. He has also been providing different kinds of applied theatre workshops to a wide range of population, and, based on field researches and interviews, developed different performances and interactive theatre works for housewives, youth and specific regions in the city, etc., via devising method.

 

He was also academically trained in philosophy (BA, 1st hon.; MPhil), Drama Education (Master) and had passed the PhD candidacy of Sociology before he decided to quit and shift his career path to theatre and therapy. 

 

 

He has been teaching in universities for more than 10 years. Since 2016, Larry has been invited as a guest lecturer in Hong Kong University for the lecture about "Psychological Assessment through Drama". For many years, he has been invited to teach physical theatre, mask theater and playback theatre in different countries in Europe (Germany, Poland, Belgium, Italy, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Russia, Palestine, India, Mainland China, Macau and Taiwan.)