Play Matters Creative Therapy

09/09/2025

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01/09/2025

If your child is anxious about going back to school, here are some things you can do to support them and encourage them to talk about how they’re feeling.

29/08/2025

Dive into the neuroscience behind anxiety and its associated behaviours. This session will provide you with tools, top tips, and tried-and-tested Thrive strategies for responding in ways that promote brain integration and emotional regulation.

28/08/2025

A teacher colleague providing tutoring

14/08/2025

In play therapy, we don’t see children as something to be “fixed.”
We listen to their stories, spoken and unspoken.

We witness their feelings, even the big and messy ones.

We walk alongside them, offering safety and support, as they heal in their own time.

Every step is theirs, we are simply there to hold the space.

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28/06/2025

22/06/2025

21/06/2025

You can’t test what play teaches.
The most important things children learn through play can’t be captured on a test.

You can’t score a child’s ability to navigate uncertainty.
You can’t quantify curiosity, or creativity, or courage.
There’s no standardized measure for how they solve a conflict on their own, negotiate a tricky structure, or recover from a failure.

Play builds the stuff life actually demands—flexibility, resilience, communication, imagination, emotional strength. The very things that fuel learning, relationships, and growth.

And that’s why protecting play matters so much. Because the richest learning is too deep, too complex, too human to be boxed up, graded, or compared.

07/06/2025

Next week is the international day of play, how will you be celebrating? 🛝

26/05/2025

10/05/2025

Next week is Mental Health Awareness Week and this year we’re highlighting that mental health is connected to everything. That means any way you choose to spread the word this Mental Health Awareness Week will make a difference. Mental health is part of everyone, that’s why we’re so determined that no mind gets left behind.⁠
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How you can get involved:⁠
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📍Head down to the annual London Southend Airport vs Run Free charity football match at Southend United Football Club ⚽️ Fancy volunteering? Drop us a message or email fundraising@secemind.org.uk!⁠
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📍Take part in our research workshop at Neurodivergent Safe Space exploring neurodivergence and mental health (free event link!: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exploring-community-resilience-research-workshop-for-neurodiverse-adults-tickets-1345307283299) 📋⁠

📍 You can visit us at The MegaCentre Rayleigh 2-7pm on Thursday for their Community Cares event, or find us at Clements Hall Leisure Centre for their Positive Mental Health and Awareness Event 11-2pm

📍 Hold your own South East and Central Essex Mind fundraiser or get together at work or with friends - 'Go Blue' and dress up, hold a raffle or a bake sale, or just host a coffee morning to give everyone the chance to really talk ☕️⁠
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📍Finish off the week by stopping by our stand at this year's Hamlet Court Road in Harmony Festival in Westcliff 🎊⁠
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How will you be spending the week? There is no right or wrong way to mark MHAW - Mental Health is important every week, and connected to everything! 💙