Every Kind of Mind

14/12/2025

🌿 Every Kind of Mind is Growing in 2026! 🌿

Are you an experienced Play Therapist who values a holistic, child-centred approach — one grounded in connection, curiosity, and supporting each child’s authentic self through play?

Every Kind of Mind is seeking a passionate and like-minded Play Therapist to join our team in a part-time role commencing in 2026. The position offers a balance of clinic-based and outreach sessions, providing opportunities to work collaboratively with families, schools, and other professionals in the Shepparton region.

This role would suit someone who brings depth of experience, professional curiosity, and a commitment to meaningful, relationship-based practice. We’re looking for someone who wants to make an impact and be part of a service that truly values the “whole child.”

💛 Above award pay is available for the right candidate.

If this sounds like you, I’d love to connect and have a chat to explore what joining Every Kind of Mind could look like for you in 2026.
📧 everykindofmind@outlook.com
📞 0488 144 340

26/11/2025

Dr. Kate's dictionary definition of Play Therapy!

Because sometimes the most powerful advocacy is simply stating the facts: what it is, who delivers it, and what the evidence shows

Effect sizes: 0.47-0.80. That's not opinion...that's data

14/11/2025

🌿 Sensory Processing, Body Awareness & Play Therapy
When a child understands their body — how it moves, feels, and responds — they feel safer, more grounded, and more ready to play. Sensory processing and body awareness help children regulate their emotions, organise their thoughts, and stay connected in the moment.

In play therapy, this regulation becomes the doorway to deeper connection, confidence, and healing. When a child’s body feels supported, their mind can explore, express, and grow. 🌱 needs

10/11/2025

We don’t need to use fear, threats, punishment, or “because I said so” to guide our children.

When a child is overwhelmed, “misbehaving,” defiant, or shutting down, what we’re actually seeing is a nervous system seeking safety.

Our children aren’t giving us a hard time they are having a hard time.

Connection shifts everything.

When a child:
• feels seen
• feels safe
• feels like their feelings make sense to us

Their body begins to settle.

And it’s through our regulation that their nervous system finds its way back to calm.
This is co-regulation, their emotional system borrowing ours.

When the body relaxes, the thinking brain (prefrontal cortex) comes back online.

That’s when:
• cooperation returns
• listening becomes possible
• repair and learning can happen

Not through fear.
Not through shame.
Not through threat.

But through relationship.

A regulated nervous system invites a calm nervous system.
Our connection becomes the container that helps their emotions integrate instead of overflow.

This is the heart of Trauma-Aware Parenting.
We lead with presence, not power.

If you want to learn how to actually do this in real moments, the meltdowns, the defiance, the tears, the overwhelm, join the Trauma-Aware Parenting course. We go deep into co-regulation, emotional attunement, repair, play connection, and nervous system safety.

Comment “course” and I’ll send you the link 🤍

30/10/2025

Have you ever wondered why children aren’t asked to clean up after a play therapy session?

In play therapy, play is their language and toys are their words. Asking a child to pack up at the end would be like asking an adult to tidy away the emotions they’ve just expressed in therapy.

Leaving the room as they’ve played allows children to fully process and release what’s come up in the session — their thoughts, feelings, and experiences — in a safe and supported way.

In the playroom, every choice has meaning… even the mess. 🌿

29/10/2025

When a child feels safe enough to fall apart in front of you, it’s not disrespect, it’s trust. You’ve become their safe place to land.

If you’d like to learn how to create that sense of safety and trust within your home, helping your child feel seen, supported, and emotionally secure

✨ Join The Trauma-Aware Parenting Course

🌿 Comment the word COURSE and I’ll send you the link

27/10/2025

🌿 Outreach Day 🌿
Today I had the privilege of visiting a local school — creating a space where play becomes the language children use to share their world.

Through play, children express emotions, explore challenges, and build a sense of safety and confidence. In play therapy, we meet each child exactly where they are — supporting them to feel seen, heard, and empowered to be their authentic self. 💚

Every moment of play tells a story — and it’s an honour to listen.

15/10/2025

Every child has their own way of making sense of the world — through play, movement, story, and imagination.

In the playroom, we meet them right where they are. There’s no rush, no pressure, just gentle space to explore what’s happening inside.

Sometimes healing looks like laughter, sometimes it looks like building the same tower over and over again — and both are okay.

At Every Kind of Mind, we hold space for it all — because every child’s story, and every kind of mind, matters. 🌿

15/10/2025

Yes 👏 Play & Filial Therapy

⚠️Policymakers: when you fund “multidisciplinary neurodevelopmental and mental health programs,” explicitly include play therapists

⚠️Health systems: add play therapy to your paediatric health and allied health teams

⚠️Schools: consider play therapists for on-site counselling, not just traditional talk therapy

‼️These children don’t need more assessments. They need accessible, developmentally appropriate mental health with integrated developmental support. Play therapists provide exactly that!

‼️The research is clear: overlooking mental health in neurodivergent children has lifelong consequences. Let’s ensure play therapy is part of the funded, integrated solution

Children with more than one developmental condition – such as ADHD, autism or others – are at risk of depression or anxiety too. Health systems need to adapt.

👉 Read the full story: https://theconversation.com/our-study-of-267-000-kids-reveals-the-hidden-burden-of-multiple-developmental-conditions-267114

14/10/2025

I’m so grateful for the families who trust me to walk alongside them. Every child teaches me something new.