Play Therapy

Tantrums, meltdowns, and tears describe your child’s behavior.

In your home, those behaviors have become as predictable as the tides.

No matter what you’ve tried, nothing seems to work. Your child is getting increasingly frustrated, and their behavior is bleeding over into every area of your life – school, church, daycare, sports, and home.

Sometimes, it feels as if you’re both speaking two different languages.

Dealing with these outbursts has you at the end of your rope, and it’s hard to know what causes these negative patterns displayed by your child.

Play therapy helps your child express how they feel.

Through play therapy, your child will discover a new way to express their emotions and feelings bottled up inside. They may come home and tell you that “all we did was play,” but that’s precisely the point!

Children communicate through play. Unfortunately, this fact is something often dismissed as unnecessary by parents. However, play is vital for children’s growth and development.

The toys become their words, and they find ways to work through problems without melting down. They finally feel heard, which calms that emotional storm brewing inside them.

Your child will learn how to solve problems, use their strengths, calm down their body, and express their feelings.

Play therapy helps address several issues.

Some behavioral problems result from a lack of anger management, grief and loss, divorce and abandonment, crisis, and trauma. Through play, your child expresses their feelings, allowing the therapist to help resolve the underlying problem.

Play therapy can also help with behavioral disorders, such as anxiety, depression, attention deficit hyperactivity (ADHD), autism or pervasive developmental, academic and social developmental, physical and learning disabilities, and conduct disorders.

As a therapist experienced with using play therapy to help children, I have seen how children learn to develop communication skills, express what’s troubling them, and learn skills that help them control their emotions. Through play therapy, I can help evaluate and identify the cause of your child’s behavior and eventually help them find ways of coping with their problems.

Parents, play therapy can help minimize those outbursts and provide more positive avenues for communication. Please get in touch with me today for more information on how I can help you and your child.