Play Therapy

Children do not always have the words to explain what they are feeling or experiencing. Through play, stories, creativity, imagination, and symbolic expression, children can safely communicate aspects of their inner world that may otherwise remain unspoken.

Play Therapy supports children to explore feelings, relationships, experiences, and challenges within the safety of a therapeutic relationship. As meaning is made through play, children can develop greater emotional understanding, flexibility, confidence, and wellbeing, allowing them to engage more fully with themselves and the world around them.

 Play Therapy may be helpful for children who have experienced challenges, transitions, or adversity, and would benefit from developing resilience, emotional understanding, self-confidence, a sense of safety, and trust in themselves and others.

Presenting concerns:

• Relationship and attachment difficulties
• Anxiety and excessive worries
• Emotional regulation difficulties
• Behavioural concerns
• Low self-esteem and self-confidence
• Social and friendship difficulties
• Grief and loss
• Family separation or significant life changes
• School-related difficulties, including school reluctance
• Adjustment to illness, diagnosis, or changes in circumstances
• Difficulties expressing thoughts, feelings, or needs
• Neurodivergent experiences
• Selective mutism or limited verbal expression