Every Cloud Play & Creative Arts Therapy

18/07/2025

Some great points here for children and young people starting therapy sessions. 😊☁️

Parents and carers who support their child through taking on board the points listed below on the image, often find children feel more at ease with the therapy process and engage.
During any therapeutic intervention behaviour may appear to get worse before it gets better – please tell your child’s Play Therapist if you have any concerns. Please also feel free to ask your child’s Play Therapist any questions throughout the process.

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17/07/2025

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Neuroscientists have identified 3 pivotal factors in the first 7 years of life:

Emotional nurture – the warm, attuned relationships that build trust in others.

Rich conversation – joyful back-and-forth with adults who genuinely enjoy a child’s company.

PLAY – and lots of it.

Play therapists understand this intuitively. In the playroom, we honour the child’s inner wisdom through connection, presence and the healing power of play — because this is how brains grow and how trust, resilience and self-worth take root.

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16/07/2025

If you are local and want to make a referral now is a good time, almost everyone on our waiting list has been offered a space. Spaces for creative arts therapy for teens have a shorter waiting list. Contact us on admin@everycloudtherapy.org.uk
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Finding the right type of therapy can be hard to decide upon for your child. Play therapy uses the medium of play and the therapeutic relationship to give children a safe space to explore their experiences and express emotions through different forms of play.

12/07/2025

This looks set to be a great conversation! 😊☁️

‼️ Children have been trying to tell you something important through their play

🪀We are often so focused on getting children to communicate in our adult ways…sit still, use words, follow our agenda…that we miss the rich, complex communication happening right in front of us

🧸 Children's play IS their language. Their choices, their movements, their repetitions, their creativity…it's all communication

🌏 And when we truly listen to that communication, we discover children have profound insights about connection, empathy, and caring for our world

🤔What has a child communicated to you through their play that surprised you?

🎧 Listen to our full conversation about children's natural global citizenship wisdom on the Dr Play podcast with Rachel Parker https://www.buzzsprout.com/2375677/episodes/17451691-from-sandboxes-to-sustainability-children-s-play-based-wisdom

12/07/2025

There are few of these to spot around Cheltenham en route to us 😊☁️

11/07/2025

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11/07/2025

Are you a parent or carer impacted by the cuts to the ASGSF? If so please complete this survey by the Action against ASGSF . We are completing the providers one. 😊☁️

PARENT/CARER SURVEY

https://forms.gle/sSKwqjeDEmVXQksv9

How have the delays, changes and cuts to the Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) impacted your children and your family? What does the future hold?

This is a chance to have your say.

Deadline is Monday 21st July but the sooner you complete it the better as it will inform ongoing discussions between our campaign and the sector.

We will be feeding these results back across the sector and of course to you all.

The more of you that complete it, the more meaningful the data. It should take you 5-10 minutes to complete and it could really inform the way forward.

Please do share with any parent/carer what’s app groups, Facebook and social media groups. Email it to those you know have been affected but don’t use social media etc etc.

PROVIDERS: It would also be great if you can share this with all of the families you see, via newsletters, websites, mailing lists and so on.

10/07/2025

It’s very nearly the end of the school year but for some that’s a really tricky time…. 😊☁️

Seeing end-of-term 'fever' in your classroom? Here's why:

👉 Transitions = anxiety.
👉 Change = scary.
👉 Endings = sadness.

That's why trips, parties and leavers' assemblies lead to over-excitement, worry and low-level behaviour.

The solution?

✅ Keep just enough routine to keep them anchored
✅ Talk openly about endings - what’s changing, what's staying the same (important, often forgotten!), how to process endings emotionally
✅ Give a clear structure to each day so they know what to expect

The thing is: Stability isn’t the opposite of fun. It's what protects it.

😀 Because when kids feel safe, they can actually enjoy the fun stuff - without getting overwhelmed by it.