Healing through Play
Therapy with children and adolescents creates lasting change and healing.
Have you noticed an increase in anxiety or depression with your child?
Is your child struggling with resistant and defiant behaviors at home, school, or in the community?
I work with kids to help them figure out the thoughts and emotions behind the behaviors.
Healing Through Play
Play is the natural language of children.
Play therapy is an easy way to communicate with and help children and teens achieve optimum mental health. This form of working through their feelings is often a more comfortable way for kids to engage. With purposeful toys, props, and activities, the child’s feelings come to the surface during play and they are able to work out their struggles with support from the therapist. Kids who are more comfortable with traditional “talk therapy” will naturally integrate it into the play therapy sessions.
I use healing through play because kids cannot communicate like adults.
It may look like all fun and game but play is serious work. I help children and adolescents.
Healing through play helps kids with:
trauma
clinginess
separation anxiety
disobedience
divorce
grief
abuse
blended family issues
transitions
nightmares
social issues
bullying
self-esteem
declining grades
aggression
Using play in therapy helps kids improve at their pace.
When kids get their needs met through play it impacts their family, their school life, and the way they interact with others.
Benefits are:
taking responsibility
confidence and resilience
improved mental, emotional, and physical connections
increased independence
Improved emotional maturity
improved empathy and connection with others
coping skills and a problem-solving process to apply to other situations
ability to deal with big emotions
Healing through play is neuroscience and evidenced-based. Learn more.
