WTF is comedy therapy?
Your story is funnier than you think. And sharing it might be the most healing thing you ever do.
Most of us were never taught to talk about the hard stuff. The embarrassing stuff. The chaotic, painful, deeply human stuff that actually makes us who we are. Instead we learned to package ourselves — present the highlights, bury the rest, and hope nobody notices the gap between who we appear to be and who we actually are.
Comedy Therapy tears that gap wide open. In the most enjoyable way possible.
What is it?
Comedy Therapy is a personal development experience built on a simple but powerful insight: the moments in your life you're most reluctant to talk about are almost always the ones with the most comedy gold hiding inside them.
Using a series of presence-based exercises and guided storytelling processes, Comedy Therapy gets you out of your head, opens your heart, and helps you share your real story — authentically, vulnerably, and with a lot of laughter.
The result isn't just that you get funnier. It's that you get freer.
How did it start?
Comedy Therapy was born in 2015, somewhat by accident.
I was participating in a workshop and offered to teach the group how to find the comedy in their own life stories. One by one, people started sharing — tentatively at first, then with increasing honesty and openness. By the end of the night everyone had shared something real. Everyone was funny. And everyone felt noticeably lighter.
The healing that happened in that room was completely unexpected — and completely undeniable. I knew I was onto something.
Since then I've run Comedy Therapy workshops in London, Vancouver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Sedona, and online — with people from all walks of life, all backgrounds, all levels of "funny."
Who is it for?
Comedy Therapy works for anyone who wants to:
— Get more comfortable in their own skin
— Stop taking life (and themselves) so seriously
— Connect more authentically with the people around them
— Process the harder chapters of their story in a way that actually feels good
— Overcome fear of public speaking or social anxiety
— Or just have a genuinely great time while doing something that matters
You don't need to be funny. You don't need to be particularly open or outgoing. You just need to be willing to show up honestly — and let the process do the rest.
What happens in a session?
First we get present. Then we get open. Then we get honest.
The exercises are designed to bypass the part of your brain that wants to edit and perform, and access the part that just wants to tell the truth. Once that happens — and it always does — the stories come naturally. And so does the laughter.
Participants consistently describe Comedy Therapy as one of the most cathartic and genuinely fun experiences they've ever had. Many say it shifted something in them that years of conventional approaches hadn't touched.
What's available?
Comedy Therapy will soon launch as an online course you can work through at your own pace - bringing the full experience to wherever you are in the world. Live intensive programmes are also planned. Follow along for updates on dates and locations.
"Everyone has some shit. Comedy Therapy just helps you see the funny side of yours."
— Alex
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