Why Choose Play Therapy
Play therapy supports developmental growth and provides the most effective basis for working with children when helping them to:
- Become more responsible for their behaviors and develop more successful strategies to manage them
- Discover new, creative solutions to their problems
- Develop respect and acceptance of self and others
- Learn to experience and express their emotions
- Learn new social and relational skills
- Develop self-efficacy
Play therapy can aid children in managing a number of social, emotional, behavioral and developmental challenges, including:
- Life transitions, such as parental divorce or separation, death, illness, relocation, new baby, etc.
- Depression, anxiety, and stress
- Fears and phobias
- Anger, impulsivity, and tantrums
- Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD & ADHD)
- Relationship difficulties
- Self-esteem
- Foster care and adoption
- Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- School issues and bullying
- Neglect / Abuse (physical, emotional and sexual)