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REASONS TO VISIT A PLAY THERAPIST

Very good explanation of some of the reasons why children are referred for Play Therapy .....at our base in Ladyburn Business Centre, Pottery Street, we have 5 highly experienced, fully qualified and skilled Play Therapists who see children in a confidential therapeutic space as we support them toward good outcomes and improved mental health and wellbeing

ANNA FREUD

THE CHILD'S WORK....

The child's work.....Virginia Axline - a trailblazer ahead of her time in the 1940s who recognised the therapeutic benefit of specialist play therapy intervention conducive to children's mental health that is supported by neuroscience today....She was also the author of Dibs In Search of the Self- the powerful true account of a young boy's emotional journey through play therapy that is still a classic essential read for student/ trainee therapists today

PLAY THERAPY

In Play Therapy children and young people affected by traumatic life circumstances, post traumatic stress and complex difficulty affecting their mental health and wellbeing, enter the therapy room where there is no expectation that they have the words or the language to even begin to make sense of what has happened to them. With the support of the university trained qualified Play Therapist the sessions may be non verbal for some time before they eventually gain trust, as the

PLAY ISN'T THE EASY ROUTE

...a BROKEN INNER WORLD

As Play Therapists we bear witness to instances where the child who cannot express himself in words finds his or her way back through a traumatic and broken inner world to become autonomous once more. The trained and skilled Play Therapist will help the child who communicates non verbally to articulate their emotions in a safe space with a trusted adult via the use of small figures, sand, drawings and clay... and they will stay with them consistently through good times.and ba