BW Play Therapy Student

 

Play Therapy

We are delighted to inform you that we have student Play Therapist in our Ballywaltrim Centre this year. She will join our team for the next few months where she will be able to take children on a one-to-one basis for Play Therapy. We have been lucky for the past few years to have a Play Therapist in our Greenpark Rd Centre and it has really benefited and supported the children and the families.

What is Play Therapy

Children may experience problems with feelings or behaviours, Play therapy provides a child with an opportunity to ‘play out’ their thoughts, feelings and problems.

Play permits the child to communicate with adults nonverbally, symbolically, and in an action-oriented manner. Play Therapists use approaches, interventions, media, and activities that are appropriate to the age and developmental stage of the client.

Children enter into a dynamic therapeutic relationship with the therapist that enables them to express themselves, explore and make sense of the world in which they live, and resolve any difficult or painful experiences through the medium of play.

Any child can benefit from play therapy. It promotes self-confidence, imagination, creativity, concentration, communication, problem-solving skills, self-esteem and most importantly happiness in the child. Play Therapy is suitable for children as young as two to three years old and there is no upper age limit.

Play therapy is relationship based – the power of the therapy comes from the strength of the relationship between the Play Therapist and the child.

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Our Team Leaders Joan Quinn and Tracie O’Toole will be in contact with families over the next week to offer out the first sessions for children who they feel may benefit from this service.

As parents you meet with Aoife, Play Therapist and she will go more into depth on what Play Therapy is and how it works. These sessions will be take place during your child’s time with us in the centre in our After-School room downstairs.

If you are offered sessions but do not want to avail of them that is no problem, you can just let Tracie or Joan know and they can move to the next child on the list.

We are hoping for the parents to meet with Aoife next week and for the sessions with the children to begin after our Halloween Break.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to link in with one of the Team Leaders or you can call me on the number above.

 

Kind Regards

Lisa Kearns

Manager