Experience Change
Mandala Play Therapy
Supporting children & families as
'change makers'
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Play Therapy supports children's
SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL, BEHAVIOURAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL & DEVELOPMENTAL needs and concerns.
It allows a child to re-work previous trauma, make sense of current difficulties, or progress developmentally.
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Empowering children, Supporting families & Creating
Positive Change
Your local mental health & disability service provider
Registered Clinical
Child & Family Play Therapist & Counsellor
also providing: Expressive Therapies, Sensorimotor Art Therapy, Dyadic Therapy & Family Play Therapy. Supervision, Case Consultation & Professional Development.
Providing both Indoor & Outdoor Therapeutic play spaces
outreach to surrounding areas
M: 0476213787
Play Therapy
is an evidence based approach, that is developmentally sensitive and appropriate for working with children and their families.
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Play Therapy
When a child engages with a trained Play Therapist in a theraputic, safe and supportive space, change and healing can occur. Play becomes the child's language and toys their vehicle to explore feelings, process experiences and resolve issues. Express, Regulate, Communicate, Discover, Practice and Master new ways of doing, thinking and feeling. Play Therapy provides the opportuninty for children to reach their optimal mental health and wellbeing.
Why PLAY THERAPY?
Mandala Play Therapy
Supports children by:
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Increasing their PERSONAL STRENGTHS
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Enhancing their SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
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Improving their COMMUNICATION SKILLS
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Fostering EMOTIONAL WELLNESS
Supporting:
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Sensory procesing challenges
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Emotional & Behavioural regulation
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Social skills & emotional Literacy
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Pragmatic communication.
Who can play Therapy Help?
Emotions and emotional experiences are difficult for adults to talk about , they are even more challening for children! Child Play Therapy is an age appropriate form of counselling/theraputic support that is suited to children in a variety of circumstances:
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developmental delays, speech delays and learning disabilities.
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problem behaviors at home or school (school refusal, victim of bullying or bullying others)
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medical trauma & chronic illness (themself or member of their family).
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Relationship issues, stuggling to play with peers or understanding social ques
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aggressive or angry behaviors - hitting, kicking, bitting.
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emotional dysreguation
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family issues, like divorce, separation, or death.
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natural disasters ( such as bush fires) single traumatic events or sudden changes in their life.
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domestic violence, abuse, or neglect.
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anxiety,episodes of sadness, tearfulness or depression.
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grief n loss
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eating and toileting disorders, nightmares
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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) ,Attention deficit disorder (ADD)
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Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
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self esteem, identity issues
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foster care, kinship care, adoption and out of home care.
What is the importance of toys in Child PlayTherapy?
•In play therapy toys are like the child's words and play is the child language.
toys allow for exploration of real life experiences.
•toys maintain the child's interest and attention
toys are a safe and familar medium to use to express their wories & strengthen their developmental skills and abilities.
Toys allow for reality testing and limit setting
•toys provide the opportunity for development of self-control
toys Facilitate exploration of the self and others
•toys allow children to express their needs symbolically (without any need for verbalization)
toys provide for expression of a wide range of feelings
•toys also provide opportunities for insight and self-understanding
they allow for creative expression