About Play Therapy
Play Therapy is a child-centred therapy that helps children and young people explore and express feelings and make sense of life experiences. Rather than having to explain what is troubling them, as adult therapy usually expects, it is predominantly play that is used to communicate. Therapy is led by the child or young person and goes at their own pace.
As Garry Landreth explains in “Play Therapy, The Art of the Relationship” (2012)
“For children, toys are like words and play is their language”
and
“for children to play out their experiences and feelings is
the most natural, dynamic and self-healing process in which they can engage”
Play Therapy sessions then take place once a week at the same time and in the same place (playroom, school or possibly at home). I have a large selection of play materials from which the child or young person can choose. These include art and craft materials, sand, water, small figures, animals and vehicles, puppets, dressing up props, baby dolls and musical instruments.
Play Therapy offers a confidential space in which personal issues can safely be explored. I help the child or young person to make sense of their life experiences and to express difficult feelings through play. I work in a child-centred way so sessions are led by the child or young person. 
Through Play Therapy, children and young people receive emotional support and can learn to understand more about their own thoughts and feelings. Sometimes children and young people play out difficult life experiences in order to make sense of their past and cope better with their future.