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Children's Therapy Centre, Ballymore, Mullingar (2025)

30/07/2025

Goodbye for now, my gorgeous Godmother. It is with great sadness that I share the news that Eileen’s dear sister, Yvonne, has left this wonderful world. My Mam and her siblings were continually with Yvonne during these last few weeks of her life. They shared special times and great joy, made wonderful memories, and made sure Yvonne was surrounded by love and kept as comfortable as possible.

Yvonne was an incredible lady, she lived a truly phenomenal life. When I was a child she always made me feel so very special and this continued throughout my teenage and adult years too. She always had a wide smile, a curious and open mind, a listening ear and many words of acknowledgment and encouragement for me and everyone she met. She was such an inspiration to me, and always will be. Rest easy Yvonne, I love you always and forever.

My heart is with my Mam and her siblings as they navigate memorials in America now before bringing Yvonne home to us in Ireland to say our final farewells.

Life is short, healthy relationships are worth their weight in gold. Thank you Yvonne for all you brought to me, and the world, during your time here. I know you will continue to live on in our hearts and shine bright from above. 💫🌟✨

28/07/2025

Final chance to book into Paris Goodyear-Brown’s upcoming training at the extra special Early Bird Rate!!

Paris is one of the most sought-after play therapy trainers in the world right now, she is amazing! This training is a must for anyone working with traumatized children and teenagers.

🤩TraumaPlay℠: A Flexibly Sequential Play Therapy Model for Treating Traumatized Children

🗓️30th November & 1st December 2025

📍 Castletroy Park Hotel, Limerick

Learn how to use this playful, components-based, evidence informed treatment with traumatized children and teens. On 30th Nov and 1st Dec 2025, Paris will share her flexibly sequential model, identifying specific treatment goals with corresponding interventions. TraumaPlay℠ views all change through an attachment focused, neurobiologically informed lens. The training will differentiate between trauma treatment goals that are best accomplished through non-directive methods and goals that are best served by integrating parents as partners, and utilizing somatic grounding interventions, cognitive-behavioral play therapy interventions, expressive therapy techniques and playful ways to complete trauma narrative work. Participants will leave with an overarching paradigm for trauma treatment, an expanded toolkit of interventions and a revived sense of excitement about the process. Come prepared to play!

⁉️This training is suitable for trainee and qualified play therapists, psychotherapists, counsellors, expressive and creative arts therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals working within the range of psychotherapeutic modalities providing therapy for children/adolescents and their parents.

🐦 Limited Early Bird places available and this rate must be booked by the end of July - the balance payment is due by 1st October. So don’t delay book today. The early bird really does catch the worm!

Standard Fee €335,
Early Bird Rate €300

Tea/coffee and hot lunch provided on both days

💻 Book in on www.childrenstherapycentre.ie

This is going to be AMAZING 🤩 🥳

22/07/2025

The world is a beautiful place, and life is indeed short and fragile. Special times and special memories are golden. I am savouring these summer days with my loves and also holding space in my heart for those who are currently moving through much more difficult times. With love in my heart, this evening I am sending a special wish into this beautiful world. Universe, please work your magic 💫

16/07/2025

After yet another intense yet extremely fulfilling academic year, I am now out of office, out of work, and definitely out of energy!! My whole self is exhausted and also full of immense gratitude and deep pride.

I am so grateful for all of the amazing successes and phenomenal opportunities this work year brought me and CTC. I am so grateful for the dedication, hard work and support of our CTC students and staff alike. I am grateful for the constant support and holding my own family gave me, as I worked what at times felt, and indeed many times was, round the clock. I am grateful for all those who have joined us on CTC courses this year and the support we continue to receive from so many people. Thank you to each and every person who has shown support in any way to me and CTC this year.

I am so proud of all of our CTC students, our CTC staff, and all that CTC is. And I am proud of myself too. I have poured my heart and soul into CTC this year, and now as academic year 24/25 has drawn to a close I am filling my cup back up with downtime and family time with my loves. I am so grateful for them and this time together.

As I pour myself into family time, and me time, CTC is still running away! Audrey is in the office over the summer, her email is ctccourseinfo@gmail.com and our website is up and running too. You can visit www.childrenstherapycentre.ie at any time and find course information, book courses and apply for our courses there too.

With deep gratitude, I say goodbye to academic year 2024/2025 and hello to summer fun with my family.

Siobhán 💫

12/07/2025

Happy Sunny Saturday!! I am almost ready to fully switch off for summer break but just before I do I am delighted to announce that world famous trauma and play therapy expert, Paris Goodyear-Brown, is coming back to Ireland! Paris is one of the most sought-after play therapy trainers in the world right now, she is amazing! This training is a must for anyone working with traumatized children and teenagers.

🤩TraumaPlay℠: A Flexibly Sequential Play Therapy Model for Treating Traumatized Children

🗓️30th November & 1st December 2025

📍 Castletroy Park Hotel, Limerick

Learn how to use this playful, components-based, evidence informed treatment with traumatized children and teens. On 30th Nov and 1st Dec 2025, Paris will share her flexibly sequential model, identifying specific treatment goals with corresponding interventions. TraumaPlay℠ views all change through an attachment focused, neurobiologically informed lens. The training will differentiate between trauma treatment goals that are best accomplished through non-directive methods and goals that are best served by integrating parents as partners, and utilizing somatic grounding interventions, cognitive-behavioral play therapy interventions, expressive therapy techniques and playful ways to complete trauma narrative work. Participants will leave with an overarching paradigm for trauma treatment, an expanded toolkit of interventions and a revived sense of excitement about the process. Come prepared to play!

⁉️This training is suitable for trainee and qualified play therapists, psychotherapists, counsellors, expressive and creative arts therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals working within the range of psychotherapeutic modalities providing therapy for children/adolescents and their parents.

🐦 Limited Early Bird places available and this rate must be booked by the end of July - the balance payment is due by 1st October. So don’t delay book today. The early bird really does catch the worm!

Standard Fee €335,
Early Bird Rate €300

Tea/coffee and hot lunch provided on both days

💻 Book in on www.childrenstherapycentre.ie

This is going to be AMAZING 🤩 🥳

09/07/2025

Happy Wednesday!! I am excited to let you know that we are currently filling the final places on our August intake of our Level 6, 15 Credit Award, Certificate in Nature-Based Therapeutic Play. This is an innovative and exciting training for any professionals working with children and/or teenagers. Please see some details below.

🌳 Certificate in Nature-Based Therapeutic Play: Exploring the Therapeutic Powers of Nature-Based Play

🗓️ Course Dates: 30th August, 13th September, 4th October, 18th October, 8th November, 29th November and 13th December

🙋‍♀️ Trainer: Aideen Flynn

💶 Course Fee: €700. €110 discount available for anyone who has previously completed CTC’s Therapeutic Play Skills Certificate

ℹ️ A blended-learning course comprising online sessions containing demonstration and theory of best practice, and experiential directed study tasks, leading to the QQI Level 6, 15 credit, Certificate in Nature-Based Therapeutic Play (PG25605).

🧭 This experiential course is designed to equip healthcare, social care, or education professionals with knowledge, confidence and skills to use nature-based therapeutic play in their current role and current practice with individuals, small nurture groups and families. This includes teachers, therapists, project workers, social workers, childcare workers and others whose professional life brings them into regular contact with children, adolescents, and/or adults, including those considered to be vulnerable and at risk/in crisis.

❓ It is suitable for professionals who wish to gain a recognised award in the area of therapeutic play with the emphasis on both indoor and outdoor nature-based play. The NBTP Course addresses many forms of nature-based play for use both outdoors and indoors, play to support emotion regulation, and a variety of models and frameworks to both conceptualise and aid in the planning of therapeutic play for both groups and individuals. It also addresses professional practice and scope of practice to ensure ethical implementation in various settings.

💻 Full details and online application available on our website www.childrenstherapycentre.ie

07/07/2025

The start of a whole new adventure!!! Welcome aboard Y1G1 2025, I definitely think you have found your way to the right place for you!

My heart is so very happy, and full of deep gratitude, after a truly phenomenal first module with our new MA students. What a privilege, and an honour, it is to be able to welcome so many incredible students to CTC. My smile is wide as I reflect back on the shared moments, the laughter, the play, the happy tears, and the connections we shared over the past four days. So many special moments shared and wonderful memories made.

This definitely feels like the start of something very special and incredibly exciting. Y1G1 2025, I am so glad you have joined us at CTC for this epic journey. Play on!

Siobhán 💫

06/07/2025

So proud of these amazing ladies! Last weekend we were truly delighted to welcome some recent CTC graduates to our International training event to share poster presentations based on their phenomenal research studies. At CTC Graduation 2024, Audrey Murphy, Caoimhe O’Sullivan, Jennie Casey, Sinéad Halligan and Trina O’Neill-Hayes were all awarded CTC Special Achievement Awards for the outstanding research they carried out during their final year at CTC. It was wonderful to have some of them back with us last weekend to share their work and raise awareness of their studies. Unfortunately Jennie and Caoimhe could not stay for the day but Audrey, Sinéad and Trina certainly had many visitors to view their posters and plenty of chats about their studies. Of course, there was plenty of laughter and hugs too. Massive congratulations again Audrey, Caoimhe, Sinéad, Trina and Jennie. We are all so proud of you.

💫Audrey Murphy
💫Caoimhe O’Sullivan
💫Jennie Casey
💫Sinéad Halligan .halligan
💫Trina O’Neill Hayes

Go team CTC 🥳👏🥰💛✨🥳

03/07/2025

Finally getting a chance to share some of the photos from last Saturday’s phenomenal training day with Dr. Heidi Kaduson!! What a delight, and an honour, it was to host Heidi here in Ireland. Thank you so much Heidi for travelling to be with us, and for sharing yourself and your work so generously with us.

Looking back at the photos is reminding me just how special the day was. Massive thank you to all who joined us for the training, it was wonderful to have you all with us for the day. The room was full of laughter and joy. I will circulate all the photos from the day to participants soon - I am still working my way through them!

In addition to all that wonderful Heidi shared on the day, we also had some incredible CTC graduates sharing their work. I am saving them for a separate post so keep your eyes peeled! They are pretty special!

Massive thanks, as always, to the team at the Castletroy Park Hotel for working so hard on the run up to the day and of course on the day itself. Plans are already in motion for our next events at this gorgeous hotel, I love working with them.

Now, time for me to get out of Instagram and gear myself up to welcome 1st years to Limerick tomorrow!!! I cannot wait to welcome a whole new cohort of students to CTC. Exciting times 🥳

01/07/2025

Emer and I are hosting a free live online MA information sessions next Tuesday, 8th July, at 4pm. This online session will provide participants with information on our MA Creative Psychotherapy & Play Therapy, so if you are thinking of applying for a place on our MA you may want to attend.

We are currently accepting applications for our 2026 MA intakes, our 2025 intakes are full. We process applications in November of each year so if you are considering applying for our MA it is necessary to submit your application early so now is a good time to start getting organised!!

The information sessions is a live, interactive session, participants will need a private space and their camera on to engage in the session. The session will not be recorded or repeated this year.

If you would like to attend this free information session please book your place via the link in my stories or on our website www.childrenstherapycentre.ie - it is free to attend but you do need to book in so you can get the zoom link! Looking forward to seeing lots of you online next Tuesday, Siobhán 💫

29/06/2025

Hugs and happy birthday!! A perfect end to a wonderful training day. Yesterday was a very special day. More photos to follow, for now I just want to share this little clip from the end of the day. Happy Birthday, Heidi!! 💖

26/06/2025

The absolute legend that is Heidi Kaduson has her birthday coming up very soon. So, of course, I took the opportunity to celebrate her wonderful self whilst she is staying with us. Today, was Heidi’s “early birthday”, we played bowling and mini golf and had a gorgeous meal out together. A game of uno was thrown in for good measure too! A fabulous way to celebrate one of the most amazing “OG” Play Therapists in the world. It was fantastic to be able to celebrate Heidi with my loves, and I cannot wait to share her with so many at her training this Saturday!! Today was a very good day. Much love to you wonderful Heidi, keep on being you. Xx

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