Kolas Space

28/08/2025

22/08/2025

via Let Grow

20/08/2025

Taken from The Sensory Spectrum

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

04/08/2025

Oh boy, isn't this the truth.

13/07/2025

Yes! There are 8 senses!

06/07/2025

29/06/2025

Try these calm down tools with older kids:

>>> https://www.andnextcomesl.com/2016/12/calm-down-kit-for-older-kids.html?ref=7041593

08/06/2025

Our expectations of our kids can be so incredibly unfair. They are learning everything. It is our job to teach and guide. Emotions are hard to negotiate. Adults often find it hard, so why do we expect kids to know?

More information in my book

Guidance from The Therapist Parent
Available on my website www.thetherapistparent.com and Amazon

31/05/2025

You’re doing just fine!👽🤷‍♀️

07/05/2025

Ever tried reasoning with your child mid-meltdown—and got nowhere?

Here’s why:
When a child is dysregulated, it’s like there’s a traffic jam in their brain. Emotions have blocked the road, and nothing—not rewards, not consequences, not even your calmest logic—can get through.

What they need first isn’t correction.
It’s connection.

Help them clear the jam by offering co-regulation: a steady presence, deep breaths, or even just sitting quietly together. Once their “road” is clear again, then you can talk, teach, and guide.

Save this as a reminder: Calm first, teach later.

Want more?
You’ll find deeper insights and practical tools in my book Guidance from The Therapist Parent, available on my website www.thetherapistparent.com and Amazon.