Play and creative arts therapy is...
Person centred
Non-directive and directive work
Non-directive and directive work
We focus care on the needs of the individual child, young person or adult in a supportive and non-judgmental environment where you can explore your thoughts and feelings, gain insights into your behaviour, and develop strategies for positive change.
Non-directive and directive work
Non-directive and directive work
Non-directive and directive work
Our therapeutic services can help you in a non directive and directive integrative modality. This means we have a toolkit including sandtray, arts, small world, music, sensory and puppets to help you work through your experiences and difficulties. Our clients lead the pace and content of their sessions with a deep respect that they have all they need within themselves to solve their own problems and create change.
Sessions
Non-directive and directive work
Children and Young People
Most sessions are 45minutes, at the same time and day each week. This consistency and repetition helps create a feeling of safety and anchoring. A minimum of 12 sessions is recommended and reviewed with clients and parents and carers as appropriate. Most of our therapy work is long term. Please do not hesitate to ask any questions in your initial meeting.
Children and Young People
Therapeutic Life Story Work
Children and Young People
Our child and young person therapy services are designed to help children and young people overcome a range of challenges, including anxiety, low mood, behavioral issues neurodiversity, trauma, attachment difficulties, and more. We use evidence-based techniques to help children and young people develop coping skills, improve self-esteem, and emotional regulation. Play and metaphor light up more brain connections than any other form of communication.
Therapeutic Life Story Work
Therapeutic Life Story Work
Therapeutic Life Story Work
Our therapeutic life story work helps clients process their life story through play and creative arts therapy. We map out a time line together and then use play and creative arts to process and integrate, supporting clients to make sense of their identity and life story. Our life story work is based on Richard Rose's approach.
Story Stem Assessments
Therapeutic Life Story Work
Therapeutic Life Story Work
The Story Stem Assessment profile is used to assess children’s mental representations of family relationships and attachments, in a non-intrusive way which does not ask them direct questions about their own experience. Children are given the beginnings of a series of narratives, spoken and enacted with dolls and asked to complete the story in whatever way they want to help us understand their basic internal script for human relationships
and mental representations.