Dandycaps Play Therapy

24/09/2025

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13/08/2025

Such an amazing opportunity to support our local community raise vital and much needed funds for mental health support 🤩💙

26/06/2025

15/05/2025

Such a simplified and easy to understand explanation of PDA…originally known as ‘Pathological Demand Avoidance’ although more recently and more respectfully known as ‘Persistent Drive for Autonomy’ 💛
By appreciating the very REAL challenges of PDA you can completely change your understanding of behaviours! 💫

28/04/2025

COMPETITION TIME!

Follow and share this post to be for a chance to win our creative Psycho-education toolkit which helps children to learn about their survival modes and how they can learn to regulate them.

Find out more about the toolkit here: https://beaconhouse.org.uk/training/psycho-education-tool-kit-for-children-young-people/

A winner will be selected at random and announced on 28th April.

27/02/2025

This looks like it will be a fab parenting workshop for those of you who are more local, being run by a lovely local play therapist and her colleague. Get in touch to book as spaces are limited! 💛

📢 📢 Workshop Announcement 📢📢

Exciting news at Dot's Playroom as I share our first (of hopefully many) Parenting Matters Workshops.

Are there things you'd like to change as a parent, but don't know how, or where to start? This workshop is for you! It focuses primarily on us as parents and understanding ourselves and how this can have a huge impact on the relationships with our children. Created and delivered by two passionate parents & accredited counsellors.

If you would like any further information, please send me a message or email the address above. Remaining spaces are limited and must be pre-booked.

Please share with any parents you think would be interested ✨

22/02/2025

💫 Explore Sandtray Therapy with me! 👇🫶💫

I don’t think I’ll ever get bored from witnessing the power that sand has in therapy! ✨
It truly is amazing at supporting children process at a much deeper level, creating a bridge from conscious to subconscious where memories are stored within our nervous system and words are difficult to find 💛
But, just like every other media used within Play & Creative Arts Therapy words are not needed to create long lasting and effective change! ✨

05/02/2025

Happy International Play Therapy Week! 🫶
I’m back in my lovely school doing the privelege that I get to call my job! 💕
There are so many amazing supports in place for the children here including Play Therapy. They are so passionate about the children getting the best opportunities and recognise that a child’s brain must be able to answer both ‘am i safe?’ and ‘am I loved?’ in the affirmative, and only then can learning take place! 💫

04/02/2025

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In light of Children’s Mental Health Week I would like to share a story about Hope, Healing and Resilience, which provides a beautiful metaphor for children and adults also.

I don’t know how I could do my job without metaphors! Using metaphor within the therapeutic space enables the child to project their experiences onto another object whilst protecting the self!
It provides as a form of communication which reaches the unconscious, creating opportunities for the child to experience their situation in a less threatening environment, explore and create different outcomes for themselves and work towards healing.

Adapted by Joyce Mills founder of from an ancient Hawaiian Story called ‘The Perfect Bowl of Light,’
‘Every child is born with a perfect bowl of light,
And with that bowl of light the child can swim with the fishes, ride on the backs of sharks, fly with the birds and be perfectly all right. But as it is in life, there are negativities that can happen.
There are hurts, pains, jealousies and anger. These hurts and pains become like stones and they get placed in the bowl. Pretty soon the child becomes like a stone. He or she cannot grow. But what is wonderful is that all the child needs to learn to do is turn the bowl upside down and empty the stones, because the light is always there!’ 💛

My favourite part is ‘the light is always there!’ So powerful 💫

02/02/2025

I’ve been very quiet on my pages recently, not quite being able to find or make the time to post.
As I continue to support lots of children and their families and try to be the best partner and mummy I can, the global overwhelm is real and it feels heavy. 💔
This 👇 resonates so deeply for me and feels comforting to know that I am not alone.
Sharing for all you fellow empaths…we can not carry all of the burdens of the world and we especially can’t help others without taking good care of ourselves first! 🫶

It’s hard to be an empath right now.

So many people are hurting so very deeply and suffering so very much.

And what do empaths do? We absorb it all. We take the heartache and the sadness and the pain and the weight of the world, and we put it on our own shoulders. We wear it like a cloak, and it is heavy.

It is SO heavy.

We are at emotional capacity, and quickly nearing a breaking point.

Lately I’ve found myself short-circuiting. I’ve been going through the motions, but I’m not really there. I’ve been so deeply entrenched in the heaviness. The weight feels all-consuming and too much to carry.

Empaths, we need to put it down sometimes.

I know that’s incredibly difficult to do. It almost feels like cutting off a limb. Because our empathy may be a curse at times, but it is also what makes us so powerful.

It makes us tender and relatable and kind and understanding. It makes us such good listeners and friends and helpers. It’s an extension of our love, and it’s both a burden and a gift.

But we also have to protect our hearts and souls and minds.

So that we have room to absorb the good. And so that we can keep using our empathy for doing good.

In case you needed permission, or an invitation to do so:

It’s okay to put down the burdens of the world.

Because we can’t do anything to help anyone else if we don’t take care of ourselves.

It’s okay to take a deep breath, turn off your phone, and go for a walk.

It’s okay to cancel plans or take an unplanned day off.

It’s okay to rest.

We won’t ever be able to fix all the world’s problems.

But if we make sure to take care of ourselves, we can keep trying.

04/11/2024

This 👇🏼 is so powerful from ! Play Therapy can be so critical for children to ensure that they have the opportunities to make sense of difficult situations and heal from trauma before it is carried into adolescence and adulthood.
I am passionate about working with the child’s parents and carers to support the child as much as possible but to support the parents also because parenting is harrrrd! 😅💕

10/07/2024

🤩 One Space has become available for my upcoming Group Lego Therapy! 🤩
Message me if you would like more information! I would love to support you and your child with this fun, respectful, developmentally appropriate therapeutic intervention! 💛