I want to see you RADIENT
About The Method
Costume Therapy is an emergent, interdisciplinary modality of expressive arts therapy that integrates performative identity reconstruction, ritual reenactment, and embodied narrative play.
It’s a method for psycho-emotional healing, individuation, and self-actualization.
This work invites humans to bravely explore various identities, past experiences & personal struggles in a shamanistic & ritualistic way. We work in a 1-0-1 setting or in groups to harness the power of adrenaline.
The therapeutic framework emphasizes radical transparency, emotional witnessing, and collective mirroring.
Dress up as therapy?
Become who you’ve always wanted to be.
By stepping into imaginary characters & roles through intentional dress-up, theatre & ritual performance, we can create sacred space to become who we’ve always wanted to be.
Taking notes from parts work, inner family systems, somatic psychology & drama therapy: the Costume Therapy Method is a unique & progressive self-development modality, designed especially for those who like to do things creatively.
It’s a highly imaginative yet grounded approach to personal transformation work, in which you embody your therapeutic process through intentional embodiment work & performative exploration.
Danielle. I. Diamond, a professional actor/costume designer who transmuted her own traumas through experimental performing arts, founded this method for self-investigation, healing & growth.
She finds that people can express things in a way, through dramatic arts, that clinical offices aren’t designed to hold space for.
Meet Your Costume Therapist
D. I. Diamond is a professional multi-modality artist, philosopher, and student of alternative healing modalities. She is the creator & founder of the Costume Therapy Method, C.T.M, and first began doing this work under the name Costume Therapy in 2021.
Having trained in pre-professional dance & theatre since childhood, her early started in the professional arts field was as a model, a fashion stylist & a drag performer.
Her work was highly original and lead to many positions in the costume department & as costume designer in the busy Vancouver film industry.
Her work has been featured in fashion editorial publications, productions, films and fashion shows where she is featured as a performance artist, a model, a fine art photographer & fashion stylist.
Where she comes from…
Danielle’s current work & research is shaped by a unique lived experience: Having been born with a profound hearing loss.
Growing up and operating through life with an invisible difference has immense challenges yet profoundly attuned her to the subtleties of human expression.
Her personal healing journey included navigating the long-term impacts of growing up with addiction in the family system, depression, anxiety and profound identity loss that followed her exit from a high-control religious community.
Healing My Own Heart First…
“Before I shared this method with others, I tested its potency on myself. —I spent over a decade moving through profound grief, mental health challenges and identity dysphoria, developing the very tools I now teach….”
-D.I.Diamond
Healing for a selfie culture
My Office Is A Stage.
I use many creative tools as mechanisms for dissolving shame, shifting internalized narratives, and restoring a felt sense of agency.
Photography, drag performance, theatre, dance, non-verbal communication, fashion styling, costumes & ceremony.
In doing so, Costume Therapy not only addresses the personal — including dysphoria, grief, and chronic self-negation —
But also operates as a tool of cultural and spiritual reanimation, inviting participants into the ancestral act of visual storytelling as medicine.
I can help.
Personal Empowerment & Confidence
Want to walk into a room like you own it? How about meeting new people feeling grounded in who you ARE. I’ll help you square your shoulders & land in YOU.
Life Transitions & New Chapters
Leaving a long term relationship, job or religion? Maybe your kids have flown the nest & you wonder who you are now? Let’s write a new & exciting narrative.
Gender Exploration & Sexuality
These are HUGE topics that deserve care & opportunity. From exploring new gender expression or address curiosity/shame/fear around your sexuality, this is a safe & supportive space.
Explore personal transformation pathways.
Want to See some of MY Costume Therapy Moments?
My 20’s were a very raw & intense time of both loosing myself & finding myself through performance art, underground night clubs, drag culture & the world of indy fashion design.
The interesting part is…I had NO idea all this would lead me to the therapist chair. I was just trying to find ways to cope with & process the pain inside.
You can READ MORE ABOUT MY STORY here or just jump right to the gallery below to see some of the moments that have greatly informed the creation and implementation of The Costume Therapy Method.
