WHAT IS IT?

Play • Therapy

Play is a type of therapy that involves playing. In Play Therapy the therapists allow clients (children & adults) to play during sessions rather than simply sitting with clients and asking them questions about their problems.

We use play in its many different ways such as Attunement,  Symbolic, Creative, Fantasy, Social, Directive, & Non-directive.

We work closely with parents, guardians, and school and towards building and improving healthy interactions. Back and forth interaction between the child and the therapist, and objects and actions are employed to :

• create and try out ideas
• act out experiences
• interact and learn
• explore
• create ways of communication
• create ways of being
• create a make-believe world
• regulate emotion

Play is the foundation of learning, creativity, self-expression, and constructive problem-solving.