Play therapy can be such a good intervention for children and teens because it reaches their unconscious and allows them to express themselves authentically without the pressure to talk. 

Play therapy uses a range of creative arts therapy techniques as well as actual playing. As a play therapist I build a relationship with the child or teen and achieve the therapeutic goals through play/art. You can learn a lot about a child or teen through their play and they can have autonomy over their own healing. 

Play therapy is an effective intervention for fostered or adopted children because it is easier to build a relationship with them through play or art than it is by talking. It also helps to repair neural pathways damaged by their trauma. In play therapy children and teens have the opportunity to regress, when a child has suffered a trauma at an early age this can leave gaps in their development. Play therapy helps to repair those gaps through attachment with the therapist and through regressive play. 

I started my career as a therapist by studying play therapy with APAC and PTUK and still cannot believe how magical and healing it is! 

Rainbird Parent-Child Therapy

31, Castle street, Reading, RG1 7SB