Illustration of two drama masks, where the happy mask is embracing the sad one.

Healing Through Humor

My workshops use improv exercises and experiential learning to help people reconnect, practice new ways of communicating, and feel more human. Whether you have a team stuck in a routine or a community coping with burnout, I provide a space to be present, not perform.

Discover how improvisation offers a new way to process, removing the added pressure of having perfect language

Studies show that engaging in play helps reduce stress - tapping into biological, social and mental benefits. Through guided improv exercises and games, you’ll find that humor and play can also channel powerful, practical tools.

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Benefits

Reduce stress and build resilience

Spontaneity and anxiety act like a teeter totter, as one goes up the other goes down. Improv acts like a gym where you can work this spontaneity muscle, getting the experiential “reps” to mitigate stress in the outside world. Improv also trains you to embrace mistakes and re-frame them as opportunities rather than failures, a skill that reduces shame and self criticism.

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Foster connection

Because improv is collaborative, it creates shared laughter, mutual trust, and a strong sense of psychological safety. Supporting each other's ideas in real time builds bonds that are hard to create any other way.

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Practice safe risk-taking

This workshop creates a safe space to make bold choices or take a little leap of faith. We lean into discomfort and see what it can teach us. Here, we practice pivots through play.

Healing Through Humor is great for...

Teams who are overwhelmed or overstimulated

I offer a dynamic, on-your-feet reset that balances cognitive load with creative engagement that builds peer connection fast, without adding to the fatigue of a packed program calendar.

Leaders who want to reconnect across organizational silos

Grounded in psychology and led by a facilitator with a background spanning theater, therapy, and corporate work, I give people permission to be curious and to hear colleagues (and departments) in a new way.

Support program staff who serve people under psychological stress

I offer dynamic, barrier-free programming that is fully adaptable to virtual delivery. My trauma-informed approach is tailored to health case adjacent audience, focusing on helping the helpers.

People coping with illness who want nontraditional support

I go beyond the standard support-group format, using playful and accessible tools to deliver stress reduction, psycho-education, and human connection.

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Types of workshops

60–90 minute sessions

A focused, energized introduction to the principles of Healing Through Humor, with participants experiencing a handful of improvisation-based activities they can immediately apply to communication skills, forming connections and stress management.

6–8 week courses

The 6-8 week workshops go deeper. Participants have time to build trust, practice skills, and revisit core themes for further reflection. They explore how humor, play and improvisation can become sustainable tools for emotional resilience and wellbeing.

Client feedback

Caroline’s workshop has become a meaningful part of our new student orientation. Students who may be meeting for the first time are quickly laughing, taking risks together, and learning to rely on one another. It sets the tone for the kind of collaborative and relational learning community we want to foster at GSSWSR. Her partnership, preparation, and willingness to tailor the experience to our students have made this much more than a fun activity (because it is fun!)—it has become a valuable introduction to the skills and spirit of social work.

Marcy Nyachogo, LSW Assistant Dean, Student & Career Services, Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work & Social Research
"You have an incredible gift for connecting with those impacted by cancer. Your Healing Through Humor workshop resonated deeply with our participants, bringing laughter, connection, and hope when they needed it most."

Angela McCrum, Director of Operations, NM Cancer Center Geneva, NM Cancer Center DeKalb, Living Well Cancer Resources
“Caroline's course was innovative and illuminating. She shares an experiential technique for participants to explore both their inner critic and inner child. I enjoyed it on both a personal and professional level!”

Rachel Frome, LCSW, Psychotherapist, Workshop Participant
“Caroline did such a great job of bridging the gap between the many different professionals who were attending her training. She presented the training with space to practice that felt safe, joyful, and accessible for any level of comfortability with improv and comedy.”

Kathy Klein, LCSW, Psychotherapist, Workshop Participant
Working with Caroline during my medical training was a meaningful and delightful experience. As a co-facilitator at Jefferson, I had the opportunity to witness firsthand the joy participants experienced and the impact it had on their well-being. They consistently shared positive feedback, describing how the program helped them become more creative and effective, provided a welcome break from the challenges of everyday life, and equipped them with skills they could continue to use moving forward. I also came away from the program with valuable skills and was reminded of the power of laughter and its ability to foster connection, resilience, and well-being.

Jenna Wasserman, M.D., Third-Year Psychiatry Resident, University of North Carolina, M.D., Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

About Caroline

With over 15 years of experience as a teaching artist and a professional background that spans outpatient therapy, clinical social work, and corporate environments, I bring a unique perspective to this work. Improvisation, psychology, and lived experience are all braided into the lens that informs my practice. I have training in experiential therapy, psychodrama, and a post-graduate psychodynamic certificate. I believe that some of the most important things we want and need to communicate exist in a space that doesn’t use traditional language. I’ve built my work around helping people connect with others and reconnect with themselves through the magic of improvisation.

Shifting the Shame Narrative with Improv & Play

On Dr. Keren Sofer’s Shame Bites series, Caroline shares how the mindset and skills inherent in improv help us lean into openness and flexibility when shame takes hold in ourselves or others.

“There is a voice that doesn’t use words, listen.”

— Rumi