Raquel Bent

If you had asked me in my youth, I would have said I was the typical teen. I was very creative, enjoying art and dance, with an obsession for ice skating. In reality, I wasn't so typical. I was raised in a single-parent household, the eldest of five, and a young carer to my mum and siblings due to my mum's mental health challenges. I didn't talk much, and suddenly I found myself catapulted into an unknown journey, speaking with various professionals. It was overwhelming, but I met some amazing care professionals, one of whom was a dramatherapist. She spoke my language, though no words were spoken at first. That's when I thought, I'm going to be a dramatherapist, but my life at that time made it impossible, so I returned to college to study performing arts, putting the dream on hold.