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Play and creative Arts Therapist based Ringwood.

29/03/2026

This is the season for bank holidays and lots of school holidays, which means my working hours will be affected (due to having a very busy Monday).

Please bear with me during this time, I continue to ensure that all my clients receive the time and space needed and agreed to them while also balancing home life and sunshine. ☀️

28/03/2026

🌷Spring Equinox is here. Clocks go forward. Which means lighter evenings and for me that means the ability to try and chase some sunsets.

🌅 The first one of the year was achieved a week or so go and I loved every minute of it. 🌅

People talk about their calming activity. The one that regulates them….for me, sitting and watching the sun disappear on the horizon is something that I cannot explain but it calms my soul…add in the fresh air, the sound of nature around me and my ‘cup is filled up instantly’

22/03/2026

Bubbles provide so much joy for some many people of all ages but they also provide so much more therapeutically:

🫧reduce stress and anxiety by forcing you to take slow, controlled breaths which activate the parasympathetic nervous system.
🫧strengthen muscles - OT/speech therapists use bubbles to support improvement of the muscles for you mouth, tongue and lips.
🫧it supports motor skills and visual tracking without even realising it.
🫧regulation - both sensory or emotional as well as supporting social skills like turn-taking.

I’d say bubbles are magic 🪄 no matter the time, day, season or age. We can all enjoy their benefits.

15/03/2026

Mother day

To the mother that shows up.
To the mother that plays.
To the mother that struggles.
To the mother that cries.
To the mother who has sleepless nights.
To the mother who hold ‘mum guilt’.
To the mother that laughs.
To the mother that tries.

✨We see you. We hear you. We respect you. ✨

12/03/2026

I was asked at my supervision to build. Build something that represents either a client or my play therapy practice as it is right now.

And here’s what I built…🏰…a lovely looking fortress..but when I delved into this lovely building with my supervisor she asked questions like:

🧱what’s the strength of it? Is it to keep things in?
🚪is it an inviting place?
🪸 I see some brighter items…do they represent anything?

We discussed. She then asked me some further questions and as I said the word ‘patience’ one of tourette’s fell down…and this opened up a whole new way of looking at what I had created. What I might need. She asked me to look at all angles of the structure and see how I felt.

😮WOW😮 was I shocked.

Creative subconscious work is so powerful!
It highlights things you don’t expect. That you potentially have been avoiding or simply offers a new lens to look at something through.
This is me of the reasons why I am still amazed by my career choice. If I can experience so can all my clients.

09/03/2026

The younger the child the more adults simply see scribbles on a page. But as a play therapist I’ve learnt that there is more to those scribbles than meets the eye.

Children, no matter the age are drawing with intent. Whether it’s a specific picture or imagine they are creating or they are simply enjoying the strokes, the mark making with the item they are using; there is always a meaning behind those scribbles.

So next time a child brings you a picture. Be curious about what they have created…because you may be surprised by the answer they offer.

05/03/2026

📚HAPPY WORLD BOOK DAY 📚

Books are so important in life. They offer people an escape from reality. They offer possibilities that are almost unimaginable. They activate your imagination and make subconscious suggestions to our brains offering support and guidance on subjects we maybe struggle with.

They are also fun!

p.s (it’s my daughter in the photo, NOT a client)

01/03/2026

You can often find masks in a play therapist tool kit of all shapes and sizes. They can offer a client the opportunity to create ‘psychological distance’ from a situation/senecio they wish to explore.

A leading psychotherapist Carl Jung suggests that they also allowed a client to explore their ‘shadow self’ meaning the willingness to express and delve into strong emotions often suppressed or avoided.
With this is mind, clients can use masks to help rehearse and express in new ways with the protections of ‘not being themselves’.

They are a powerful tool that clients can use on themselves, a therapist or other toys/objects in the room to allow this expression to take place. Plus they don’t have to anything special - a simple scarf around the face can create the right mask for someone.

23/02/2026

Post half term blues and I’m smashing them away. 🥊
I took the week off from all work duty’s and simply enjoyed the break.

The weather may have been pants ☔️ but I enjoyed putting the rain gear on, celebrating birthdays and getting outside with out the rush to check emails or head out in the car with my work brain now.

Back to reality and I’m ok with it. ☀️ The sun is trying to shine and im looking ahead! ☀️

08/02/2026

Just pause. Sit there. Stand still. Breath.

Wasn’t that dreamy. I spotted these clouds at a recent beach walk (yes that’s real footage I took on my phone) and I was mesmerised. If I had not had my daughter with me I could gave sat there for ages just looking. Letting my mind wonder.

It made me think. How often do we just sit and let our minds clear? Allowing our bodies to regulate to that present moment? How good does it actually feel?

We should do it more! So I’m giving myself permission to try it more often! You should to!

22/07/2025

Happy summer holidays!

It’s the last few days of working before the summer holidays start and a few weeks of relaxing begins.

I have all fingers crossed for the weather to continue to shine for us all. Although I will be continuing to work on my own CPD, business paperwork and sorting out the play kit, client work is paused for the summer. This gives me the chance to reset and refocus for the next academic year ahead.

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Ringwood

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+447900909482

Website

http://www.wildflowersplaytherapy.co.uk/

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