Play & Fly - Play Therapy

06/07/2025

Thank you for such lovely words Thriving Young Minds! 🤗

It’s great to work alongside other professionals that share a passion for supporting children’s mental health and wellbeing 🙌

Play Therapy and Young People's Counselling Collaboration 💕

A few months ago, we decided to restructure our service so that Annette, one of our Play Therapists at the time, took over the management of the Play Therapy strand under the name Play and Fly 🦋

Annette is amazing at what she does; she has so much experience in many aspects of child development and mental health, including social care, safeguarding and education. It's an absolute joy to hear the children she works with running down the corridor on their way to the Play Therapy room or going back to their parents.

We still work closely together, whether it's sharing knowledge, working with families with children of different ages, discussing ideas, supporting each other's business etc.

If your child is experiencing any difficulties, please get in touch with Annette, the feedback is 👌🙌👏 Have a look in the comments for more info.

06/07/2025

Excited to share my new website for Play & Fly - Play Therapy! 😃

The website displays my expert play therapy in helping children grow, heal and thrive through creative, child-led therapeutic play.

https://www.playandfly.co.uk

24/06/2025

How are you feeling today? Love this illustration of what’s happening in our brains. Is your child’s alarm system ringing ! Are things getting too much ?
Play can create new neural pathways to help the damaged synapses recover and allows for healthy attunement (to self and others), neural integration (better whole brain functioning), development of healthy attachment
Here if you need advice or support

27/05/2025

Play therapy and the vagus nerve work in tandem to promote emotional regulation and healing in children, particularly those with trauma histories ❤️

27/05/2025

Some exciting news! My new sign is up at Ramsbottom 🤗

08/05/2025

17/04/2025

Feedback Friday,

Feeling the love today ❤️ look at these beautiful gifts from the clients I work with. I do this job to see children and young people thrive with a smile, never expecting wonderful gifts.

12/04/2025

With Thriving Young Minds – I just got recognised as one of their top fans! 🎉

03/04/2025

01/04/2025

Some pictures from my play therapy space,

“Toys are children’s words and play is their language”
Gary Landreth

01/04/2025

Exciting news, I will be taking over the running of the play therapy service at Thriving Young Thriving Young Minds.
Beautiful room at Ramsbottom.

✨️Exciting changes✨️

In our 7th year of service, from today we are changing how we work 👀

💕 Annette, one of our long-standing Play Therapists, will be running the Play Therapy service which will be known as Play and Fly. Everything will stay the same - same room, same cost, same high level of service - just a more streamlined referral and contact process. Annette has a huge amount of experience with primary and secondary education, safeguarding, social services, CAMHS, adoption and fostering agencies. She is AMAZING at what she does. Please follow the page Play & Fly - Play Therapy .

💕 Thriving Young Minds will still be offering Counselling and Psychotherapy sessions for young people aged 11-25. Our team of therapists are developing parent and whole-family support options and have changed our logo slightly to reflect this - can you spot the difference?! Keep your eyes peeled for what we have to offer - we are very excited to show you 😀. We also have a new website on the way soon with more details 💚

🗣 If there are any specific services you would like us to provide to support the mental health and wellbeing of your family, please send us a message or let us know in the comments. We are open to ideas while we're finalising our plans to meet the needs of the families we work with.

Thriving Young Minds and Play and Fly will still be working closely together, supporting families with children across the age ranges or with varying needs 🥰

Please get in touch with any enquiries, questions and suggestions.

Adele, Hayley, Becky and Annette 💚

31/03/2025

With 6 weeks left to work before I am out on my own 🫠😁 I thought it was time to share my new venture! As of the 1st May I will be working as a Freelance Virtual Assistant.

After working with Emma at The Busi Bee for the last 6 months around my full time job, I have chosen to take a leap of faith and see what self employment has to offer! I have enjoyed the work so much that I have decided it’s time to take on my own clients while I continue my work with Emma.

I am open to working with businesses in all industries, offering the following services but not limited too -

🌟 Administration based tasks
🌟 Personal/Executive Assistance
🌟 Social Media Coordination
🌟 Business Support
🌟 Research
🌟 Travel & Event Planning Assistance
🌟 Bespoke Requirements
🌟 Calendar Management

I would really appreciate anybody who wishes to share this post and help me spread the word to potential clients and business owners who may need some assistance. Thanks to everyone who has been so supportive my decision! Very excited for 2025! 🚀