Child-Centered Play Therapy

Child Centered Play Therapy emphasis is on developmental response, play-based mental health intervention for young children ages 2-12 who are experiencing social, emotional, behavioral, relational disorders. Child Centered Play Therapy utilizes play, the natural language of children, and therapeutic relationship to provide a safe, consistent therapeutic environment in which a child can experience full acceptance, empathy, and understanding from the counselor and process inner experiences and feelings through play and symbols. In child centered play therapy, a child’s experience within the counseling relationship is the factor that is most healing and meaningful in creating lasting, positive changes. Based on person-centered principles, the overarching goal of Child Centered Play Therapy is to unleash the child’s potential to move toward integration and self-enhancing ways of being. Child outcomes following Child Centered Play Therapy include decreased symptomatic behaviors and improvement in overall functioning.

Prescriptive Play Therapy

The prescriptive approach to play therapy helps to weave together a variety of play interventions into one comprehensive, tailor-made treatment program for a particular child. With this model of play therapy I am able to use interventions to help your child in a variety of different ways.

Play Therapy is recommended for all ages from 2-99 years old experiencing a variety of symptoms including:

• Life Transitions (moves, divorce, blended families)

• Anxiety

• Autism (Trained in Autplay Therapy)

• Self-control/Impulsivity

• Social Skills/Boundaries

• Sadness, Depression

• Grief/Bereavement

• Trauma

• Sexual Reactivity

• Attachment concerns

• Abuse/Neglect

• Bullying/Struggling Peer Relationships

• Low self-esteem

• Focus/Attention