Dandelion Play Therapy

Dandelion Play Therapy Dandelion Play Therapy offers child-centred, non-directive play therapy by a BAPT Registered Play Th

You cannot assume that you know a child’s traumatic experience just because you know their history.Two children can live...
06/02/2026

You cannot assume that you know a child’s traumatic experience just because you know their history.

Two children can live through the same events and experience them in very different ways. What matters is not only what happened, but how the child experienced it.

In play therapy, the child’s self-directed play reveals their inner world. Through symbols, stories, repetition and themes, children show us their perceptions of distressing experiences in ways words often cannot.

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Play Therapy is counselling for children, using this developmentally appropriate language of play to help them explore d...
05/02/2026

Play Therapy is counselling for children, using this developmentally appropriate language of play to help them explore difficult experiences safely.

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Children do not always have the words to explain what they are feeling or what they have been through. Instead, they com...
04/02/2026

Children do not always have the words to explain what they are feeling or what they have been through. Instead, they communicate through play, using toys, movement, stories and imagination to make sense of their world.

Play therapy offers a safe, accepting space where children can express, explore and process their experiences at their own pace. When play is met with empathy rather than direction, children are able to integrate emotions, build resilience and move towards healing in ways that feel natural to them.

In play therapy, play is not “just play” — it is meaningful, powerful and deeply therapeutic.

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Play is children’s first and most natural form of communication. Long before children can put experiences into words, th...
03/02/2026

Play is children’s first and most natural form of communication. Long before children can put experiences into words, they show us their inner world through PLAY.

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“When trauma gets triggered, you don’t act your age, you act the age the wound was created.”This is why a child may sudd...
02/02/2026

“When trauma gets triggered, you don’t act your age, you act the age the wound was created.”

This is why a child may suddenly seem much younger when they are overwhelmed. Trauma pulls the nervous system back to an earlier time when safety was missing and protection was needed.

Play therapy helps by meeting the child at the age and stage where the wound lives. Through play, children revisit experiences safely, express unmet needs and rebuild a sense of control and security.

Healing happens when children are met with understanding and when their inner world is given space to be seen and held.

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Play Therapy is a dynamic therapeutic process between a child and a Play Therapist. Through play, the child explores at ...
01/02/2026

Play Therapy is a dynamic therapeutic process between a child and a Play Therapist. Through play, the child explores at their own pace and with their own agenda issues from their past and present, both conscious and unconscious, that are affecting their life today.

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Play has the power to connect us…to bring us closer to ourselves…Because in order to play, we must use ourselves, our b...
30/01/2026

Play has the power to connect us…
to bring us closer to ourselves…

Because in order to play, we must use ourselves, our bodies, emotions, imagination and inner world.

In play therapy, children are invited to use all of themselves. Through play, they express what cannot yet be spoken, explore their experiences safely and reconnect with parts of themselves that may feel overwhelmed or unseen.

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Children’s behaviours are often their body’s way of staying safe. What can look like withdrawal, anger, control or shutd...
28/01/2026

Children’s behaviours are often their body’s way of staying safe. What can look like withdrawal, anger, control or shutdown is often protection, not choice.

Play therapy helps by offering a safe, accepting space where a child’s nervous system can settle without being pushed to explain or change. Through play, children express how their bodies have learned to protect them and slowly discover new ways of feeling safe in relationship.

When protection is understood, healing can begin.

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Anger in children is often misunderstood as defiance or bad behaviour. But very often, it’s a sign of trust. A child who...
26/01/2026

Anger in children is often misunderstood as defiance or bad behaviour. But very often, it’s a sign of trust. A child who shows anger is saying, “I believe this relationship can hold my big feelings.”

In play therapy, anger is welcomed as communication. Through play, children express feelings that are too big, confusing or unsafe to put into words.

When a play therapist stays present, calm and accepting the child learns that even strong emotions can be held within a safe relationship.

Play therapy offers children a space where anger does not push connection away, but becomes part of a process of understanding, regulation and healing.

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Many children hold it together all day. They follow rules, meet expectations and manage feelings that feel too big to sh...
23/01/2026

Many children hold it together all day. They follow rules, meet expectations and manage feelings that feel too big to show. By the time they reach home their safest place that pressure can spill out as tears, anger, withdrawal or exhaustion.

Play therapy helps by giving children a safe, accepting space to express what they cannot yet put into words. Through play, children release built-up tension, explore emotions at their own pace and make sense of their experiences without being judged or corrected.

When a child is met with understanding rather than demands their nervous system can settle not because they are holding everything in, but because they are finally being heard.

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In child-centred play therapy, the child leads and we follow with curiosity, respect and trust in their process. It’s n...
14/10/2025

In child-centred play therapy, the child leads and we follow with curiosity, respect and trust in their process.

It’s not always easy to slow down, but when we do, we give space for the child’s inner world to unfold at their own pace. That’s where healing happens — in the moments we listen, not direct. 💚

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Play is nature’s design for growth.It’s through play that the brain learns, organises and creates itself. In Play Therap...
05/09/2025

Play is nature’s design for growth.
It’s through play that the brain learns, organises and creates itself.
In Play Therapy, this natural process is nurtured, helping children heal, develop and thrive.

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Milton Keynes

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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+447385907405

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