Play Therapy

All work and no play?

Growing up is challenging at any age, stage, or developmental level.

Coping with life at home, school, with parent relationships, with peers, and everything in between, we may struggle to find the words to process what we are encountering.

Play therapy is to children while talk therapy is to adults.

That doesn’t mean play therapy doesn’t work for adults too! We see ages 2 through 92 for play therapy, however we find many have come to this section to learn about play therapy for their children.

Often you feel your child needs some extra help.

But, sometimes the gentle push from a teacher or pediatrician has you unsure what to look for.

Emotions are BIG for children, as they don’t understand them and find it even more difficult to safely express them.

Play, being our natural language, provides a non-threatening way for a child to express themselves.

We fully believe in the power of play.

Our team has gone through extensive training in play therapy, with two registered Play Therapist-Supervisors at the lead to guide our clinicians and clients through play therapy.

Each play room has selected, not collected, toys, games, and activities that help the “words” flow. The dolls, puppets, crafts, sand trays, and dress-up clothes assist our clients in working toward healing by processing through the difficult times in their lives.

In between sessions it is not uncommon to find one of our therapists “cleaning” up the play room while also utilizing the play materials on their own for some gentle processing and debriefing.

Give us a call today at (239) 540-1155 to learn more.

Still not convinced play works? Check out the association for Play Therapy’s Parent’s corner.