Calm Waves Play Therapy

28/03/2025

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Are you making time for unstructured play?

Kids need time to stretch their imaginations and creativity and spontaneity, and the outdoors is a perfect place to do so!

28/03/2025

Lovely description 😊

Play therapy offers children a safe, supportive space to explore their feelings, work through conflicts and develop self-understanding and emotional regulation. Through play, they learn how to navigate relationships, express themselves and build a stronger sense of connection and security.

When children feel seen and supported, they can heal and grow — discovering their inner strength along the way.

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25/03/2025

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25/03/2025

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25/03/2025

Love this 😍

25/03/2025

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✨ “And no matter what happens in the session, every kid gets the same message, which is: You’re important, you’re valuable, and you’re worthy.” – Lisa Dion ✨

24/03/2025

Yep! Self care ❤️

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24/03/2025

Love this image 😍

24/03/2025

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There is joy to be found every day
In every tiny and huge kind of way.
Sometimes we’re so busy
Our brains feel dizzy
But the magic is there
… everywhere 💫 -

11/03/2025

The playfulness of music in the room 🥰

Musical instruments can be incredibly powerful in play therapy for helping children modulate their internal emotional states. The act of creating sound and rhythm gives children a concrete, external outlet for expressing and organising their internal chaos.

Rhythm and regulation:
Steady, predictable rhythms can activate the brain's calming systems, helping children regulate their nervous systems. Drumming, for example, can mimic the rhythm of a heartbeat, providing a sense of safety and grounding.

Emotional expression:
Instruments offer a non-verbal way for children to express complex emotions. A loud crash on a cymbal might externalise frustration, while soft tapping on a xylophone might reflect sadness or vulnerability.

Control and empowerment:
Choosing how and when to make sound gives children a sense of agency. It allows them to feel in control of their environment in a safe and contained way.

Co-regulation: When a therapist joins in musically — perhaps mirroring a rhythm or responding with complementary sounds — it can create a sense of connection and attunement, supporting the child's ability to regulate.

Creative processing: Improvising and experimenting with sound can help children process experiences, giving shape and meaning to feelings that may otherwise feel overwhelming or disorganised.

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27/02/2025

Love this, finding our own flow through the shoulds!

27/02/2025

Love this, all behaviour is communication!

There is so much more to behaviour than most people think. Children don’t try to upset us, there is usually something behind it. They are communicating their need through behaviour. If we look behind the behaviour we can see a child who is doing the best they can

More information in my book

Guidance from The Therapist Parent

Available on my website www.thetherapistparent.com and Amazon

06/02/2025

Actions speak louder than words! 🥰

Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D. and Georgie Wisen-Vincent 💖

06/02/2025

Brainstem soothers from Beacon house, helping a child's brain and body to feel safe 🥰

Free Resource!

Brainstem Soothers - Helping a child’s brain and body to learn that they are safe.

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06/02/2025

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During International Play Therapy Week, we celebrate the incredible power of play in helping children navigate their emotions, process their experiences and build resilience.

For many children, words are not enough to express what they are feeling. But through play—their natural language—they can explore, communicate and heal in ways that feel safe and empowering. Play therapy provides that space, where every child is seen, heard and supported.

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06/02/2025

'Know Yourself, Grow Yourself' is the theme of this year's Children's Mental Health Week. Each day BAPT are sharing with you a quote about play or Play Therapy and how this supports the child to begin to know themselves better so they are able to grow in ways that subsequently support more positive Mental Health.

In the metaphor of play, children are able to explore feelings and emotions. They do this by projecting onto figures maintaining an element of safety and hopefully preventing overwhelm as the emotions are not happening directly to them.

It is during these explorations that the therapist makes observations and reflections about what the characters are doing and how this may make them feel.

Through these comments, the child is able to gain a greater self-awareness of how situations may make them feel and as a result are able to develop an acceptance of their emotions.

The therapist demonstrates empathy towards the characters and the state of overwhelm that some feelings can bring.

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03/02/2025

The magic of play therapy! 🥰

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