Play Therapy Promotes Better Relationships and Happy Homes

Play Therapy is a method of helping a child understand complex or upsetting feelings and can be a welcomed way of giving the child strategies to cope with these confusing challenges. It is particularly beneficial in assisting children with high levels of anxiety and stress.

Anyone can benefit from play therapy and it helps when situations or events, that may be out of the child’s control, causes them to engage in patterns of inappropriate behaviour. 

Play Therapy is highly effective for children with anger issues, sleep disturbances, seperation fears, refusal to attend school and high anxiety levels.

Some parents decide to learn how to apply play therapy techniques themselves with their children. Research has found this to be a highly effective way of supporting children to manage their fears, anger and highly charged emotional outbursts. Parents, in many cases, have been known to get positive results far quicker than sending a child to a play therapist outside of the home.

This is a very empowering strategy for parents because, together with my support and their own innate wisdom, a parent quickly applies ‘play work’ to create that natrual filial connection. 

Trust and loyalty between parent and child are the secrets in these success stories. Most families see positive change immediately after the parent and child begin the play sessions together.

Some parents think that professionals are the ones equipped to use play therapy tools fearing that they are too familiar with their own child to be effective. On the contrary, this deep understanding between parent and child cannot be replaced very easily by a person outside of the immediate family. The supportive presence of the parent enhances the symbolic work of play, thereby allowing the child to process their fears and anxieties safely.