Play Therapy is an effective form of therapy for children with a wide range of emotional and behavioural difficulties including depression, anxiety, aggression and issues relating to difficult life experiences such as abuse, bereavement and loss, family breakdown / separation, domestic violence and trauma.
Children use play as a form of communication in everyday life. In Play Therapy children use play to express themselves. Children enter into a dynamic relationship with the play therapist, which enables them to express, explore and make sense of their difficult and painful life experiences.

• It provides your child with emotional support.

• It can help them make sense of life experiences by playing them out at their own pace.

• By allowing your child to make sense and understand their feelings it will in turn help them cope with the future.

• It can help your child to deal with conflict/angry feelings in more appropriate ways.

• Play therapy can help you the carer to understand your child’s world.