Just like talking is for an adult in counselling, play is for a child in Play Therapy.

Children often have difficulty expressing in words how they feel and how experiences have affected them.

Because play is the natural world for a child, in Child Centered Play Therapy a child can express their thoughts and feelings at their own developmental level and at their own pace and come to an understanding of their world.

Child Centered Play Therapy:

• Counselling for children.
• A specialised way of working alongside children in a deeply respectful and safe environment.
• Adult-facilitated but child led.
• The child chooses their own toys and activities, sets the pace and content of their sessions and is not directed by questions or asked to do things.
• The therapist enters the child’s world and follows the child’s lead, participating in their play at the child’s invitation or direction.
• Parents/caregivers are an essential part of their child’s therapeutic process and are kept up-to-date with their child's overall progress in regular scheduled meetings. Support is given in parenting and in strengthening their parent/child relationship.