Carol Cumberbatch is an artist, Creative Clinical Supervisor and self-defined Creative Solutions Designer/Facilitator, influencing communities consistently and creatively since 1989 in the UK, Netherlands and USA with bespoke projects that promote wellbeing, education, learning and reflection through creative mediums. Training includes Post Graduate Diploma Dramatherapy, MA Creative Models of Education and PGCE Psychology.

She is experienced in introducing innovative educational experiences to individuals and groups in education, NHS and the creative industries.

She has designed and delivered several creative projects and programmes to respond to identified needs, including Time Line Jewels in 2004, a film resource for inclusive education, intersectionality awareness and wellbeing. It was adapted for Lewisham schools in 2021.

As Artist Wellbeing Practitioner recent work includes Ingemeng for 20 Storeys High; Once on the Island at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre; Word Play at the Royal Court, and Forge with Rachel Mars.

Private practice includes dramatherapy, cultural humility workshop facilitation/consultation and work as Experiential Group Leader at Anglia Ruskin University.

Carol Cumberbatch self-published a book of her art and poetry, Gezellig Heart, in 2023, and wrote the short film, OTHER, which won the 2005 RIMA Award.