Child Play Therapy and Early Adolescence Counselling Service
At Little Lights, we are passionate about supporting and empowering children to let their little lights shine. Our goal is to see little lives healed and empowered through play. ⭐️
About Play Therapy as a modality:
Play Therapy is an evidence-based, developmentally appropriate form of counselling for children which provid
es them with the opportunity to 'play out' their feelings and problems just as, in certain types of adult therapy, an individual 'talks out' their difficulties. Play Therapy enables children to explore difficult experiences in a safe environment and can help them:
- Make sense of confusing or painful experiences
- Feel more confident in expressing their thoughts and feelings
- Develop their emotional vocabulary
- Develop more socially appropriate behaviour
- Improve their self-image and self-esteem
- Improve concentration and organisation
- Become more confident and creative in their play
5 QUICK FACTS ABOUT PLAY THERAPY:
1. Play therapy is a structured, evidence-based and developmentally appropriate approach to therapy for children that builds on and utilises their natural communicative and learning processes.
2. Registered Play Therapists strategically implement Play Therapy to help children express their thoughts and feelings and work through the things that are troubling them when they do not have the verbal language to do so.
3. Through Play Therapy, Registered Play Therapists can support children to learn more adaptive behaviours and coping strategies when there are social or emotional skill deficiencies or challenges.
4. Play therapy allows children to change the way they think, feel toward and resolve their worries and concerns. When addressing their problems in the clinical Play Therapy setting, children are able to find healthier solutions and develop more positive coping strategies.
5. Research has proven the effectiveness of Play Therapy for children experiencing a wide variety of social, emotional, behavioural, and learning problems, including those related to: emotion regulation, social skills & peer relationships, bullying, low self-esteem & confidence, school difficulties, trauma, domestic violence, abuse, attachment, anxiety & phobias, selective mutism, grief & loss, family separation & divorce, sibling rivalry, chronic illness, developmental delays. sleeping, eating or toileting issues and natural disaster recovery. For more information, resources and regular updates, please follow us on Instagram .
