ABOUT
About
Stage & Stance Co.
Stage & Stance Co. brings together psychological expertise, creative expression and embodied practice to create different ways of experiencing mental health care.
Our work sits across mental health, creativity, performance and everyday life — creating spaces where people can pause, explore, express and reconnect with themselves and with each other.
OUR CONVICTION
"Creativity, in our work, is not expressive for its own sake. It is a way of understanding, regulating, and relating."
PHILOSOPHY
Every stance matters.
We believe every person holds stories worth expressing, and every space can become a place to explore, reflect, and begin again.
Every way of being matters.
Our work creates space for people to show up as they are, experiment safely, and discover new ways of being — with care, reflection, and presence.
Creativity is a language of care.
It is not a luxury or an end in itself. It can be a way of understanding, regulating, expressing and relating.
FOUNDER
Subiksha Raman
FOUNDER · HCPC-REGISTERED DRAMATHERAPIST
Subiksha Raman is an HCPC-registered Dramatherapist and Counselling Psychologist, and the founder and lead practitioner of Stage & Stance Co. Her work sits at the intersection of mental health, creativity and embodied practice, supporting individuals, teams and organisations navigating pressure, change, relationships and transitions.
Her approach brings together dramatherapy, counselling psychology, creative practice and embodied ways of working, informed by her background in Bharatanatyam and theatre. She is particularly interested in how people experience and express themselves through their bodies, relationships, roles and environments.
Subiksha is currently pursuing her PhD at Anglia Ruskin University (UK), researching the use of dramatherapy as an intervention for emotional literacy and emotional regulation in athletes. Her professional and research interests include sport and performance environments, particularly the ways people navigate pressure, identity and change within them.
She is also Secretary & Treasurer of Drama Therapy India, contributing to the development of dramatherapy as a profession in India.
Through Stage & Stance Co., she brings these strands together to create mental health-informed, creative and embodied work shaped around people, context and what they need.