Marbles Play & Creative Arts Therapy

17/09/2025

15/08/2025

Your Role as a Parent in Play Therapy 💛

As a parent, your support is central to your child’s therapeutic journey. 🌱

🔹 Your child may choose to keep what happens in their sessions private – this is normal. They might not have the words to explain yet.
🔹 Play Therapists keep session details confidential but can share general themes, patterns, and topics so you can support your child at home.
🔹 There’s no need to expect ‘good’ behaviour in sessions – therapy is a safe space for free expression, without judgement.

When you choose a Play Therapist listed on the Play Therapy UK Accredited Register, you can be assured they meet the highest professional standards. Our register is the first of its kind – independently overseen and accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA), the body that protects the public by ensuring quality and safety across health and social care: https://zurl.co/lxqe4

This means your child’s therapist:
✅ Holds a Level 7 postgraduate qualification in Play Therapy (https://zurl.co/7G8zP)
✅ Has membership with PTUK – a professional body regulated by the PSA
✅ Receives mandatory monthly clinical supervision
✅ Completes ongoing safeguarding training and yearly CPD specific to play therapy
✅ Follows GDPR compliance standards

💬 Find out more or make a referral: https://zurl.co/3DzDL

29/07/2025

Yes… this… let’s make it more child-friendly and see how they thrive…..

Richard Cohen’s “Zen and the Art of Early Childhood" 💗

04/07/2025

So true ❤️

04/07/2025

Let’s all engage with play… we don’t do enough!

Mud & Bloom 💙

26/06/2025

❤️

The world needs more of that. 🌼🌼🌼

22/06/2025

They need more of it 💜

15/05/2025

"Play is really the work of childhood." 💚 This quote from Fred Rogers is everything.

When kids play, they’re learning in ways that books alone can’t teach. Outside, they explore, create, and grow with every stick, stone, and splash. 🌿

Let’s give them the freedom to make nature their classroom!

30/03/2025

Be like a toddler….. ❤️

29/03/2025

Play doesn’t need to teach anything to be worthy. A child spinning in circles, digging a hole for no reason, or talking to a stick isn’t wasting time—they’re claiming space in a world obsessed with outcomes. Play is not preparation for life. It is life.

Too often, play is tolerated only when it leads to something “productive.” But research tells a different story. Real play—freely chosen, self-directed, often nonsensical—is where children build their sense of self, explore emotional landscapes, and experience joy on their own terms (Hughes, 2011; Lester & Russell, 2008).

Peter Gray, research professor of psychology and leading voice in the field of play and self-directed education, warns that when adults hijack play to teach, we strip it of the very qualities that make it powerful. True play has no predetermined outcome. It doesn’t need to be educational, therapeutic, or efficient. Even when it looks frivolous, it’s doing deep work: protecting mental health, supporting autonomy, and resisting a culture that demands constant productivity from even the youngest among us.

Let kids dig holes. Let them be “unproductive.” That’s where the real work lives.