Comprehensive Play Therapy Service
At A Safe Space Counseling, LLC, we specialize in both non-directive and directive play therapy to support the emotional and psychological well-being of children and families.
Non-Directive Play Therapy: In non-directive play therapy, the child leads the play, allowing their issues to emerge naturally. I am trained to interpret the meaning behind their play and work closely with parents to uncover the root causes of their child's behavior, developing strategies to resolve these issues.
Directive Play Therapy: Directive play therapy involves specific activities selected to teach children essential skills or help them understand necessary concepts. This approach may involve the entire family to foster understanding and support the child's healing process.
Enhancing Family Connections
We utilize play-based activities to strengthen the bond between parents and children, providing a variety of expressive arts therapies, including play, sand tray, art, music, and movement.
Benefits of Play Therapy
Play therapy is beneficial for children experiencing a range of issues, such as:
Through play therapy, children can explore their personal world in a safe and therapeutic relationship, allowing for dynamic growth and healing.
Sand Tray Therapy
We offer sand tray therapy for children, teens, and adults. This approach allows individuals to express themselves creatively and face inner fears and emotions in a safe space. Our sand trays include both dry and moist sand, along with various small figures to represent internal worlds.
Sand tray therapy is effective for addressing:
Play Therapy Rooms
Our facility features two unique play therapy rooms, each equipped with a sand tray. These rooms provide a safe environment for clients to engage in therapeutic play and explore their emotions.
Meet Clammy, Sandi, and Pearly—our customized puppets for play therapy. These puppets are available for purchase in resin sets for sand play therapy and fabric versions, helping to heal and connect families through play.
Explore our play therapy services and discover how we can support you and your family on the path to emotional wellness.
Non-Directive Play Therapy: In non-directive play therapy, the child leads the play, allowing their issues to emerge naturally. I am trained to interpret the meaning behind their play and work closely with parents to uncover the root causes of their child's behavior, developing strategies to resolve these issues.
Directive Play Therapy: Directive play therapy involves specific activities selected to teach children essential skills or help them understand necessary concepts. This approach may involve the entire family to foster understanding and support the child's healing process.
Enhancing Family Connections
We utilize play-based activities to strengthen the bond between parents and children, providing a variety of expressive arts therapies, including play, sand tray, art, music, and movement.
Benefits of Play Therapy
Play therapy is beneficial for children experiencing a range of issues, such as:
- Anger
- ADHD
- Grief and loss
- Transitions (e.g., moving, starting school)
- Body image concerns
- Family changes (e.g., birth of a sibling, divorce)
- Self-esteem issues
- Potty-training challenges
- Trauma and abuse
Through play therapy, children can explore their personal world in a safe and therapeutic relationship, allowing for dynamic growth and healing.
Sand Tray Therapy
We offer sand tray therapy for children, teens, and adults. This approach allows individuals to express themselves creatively and face inner fears and emotions in a safe space. Our sand trays include both dry and moist sand, along with various small figures to represent internal worlds.
Sand tray therapy is effective for addressing:
- ADHD
- Aggression
- Anger management
- Anxiety disorders
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Depression
- School-related problems
- Trauma and crisis
Play Therapy Rooms
Our facility features two unique play therapy rooms, each equipped with a sand tray. These rooms provide a safe environment for clients to engage in therapeutic play and explore their emotions.
Meet Clammy, Sandi, and Pearly—our customized puppets for play therapy. These puppets are available for purchase in resin sets for sand play therapy and fabric versions, helping to heal and connect families through play.
Explore our play therapy services and discover how we can support you and your family on the path to emotional wellness.
“By acting out through play a frightening or traumatic experience or situation symbolically, and perhaps changing or reversing the outcome in the play activity, children move toward an inner resolution, and then they are better able to cope with or adjust to problems.” (Landreth & Bratton, 2001)"
Customized Puppets
I am trained in both non-directive and directive play therapy. In non-directive play therapy, I allow the child to lead the play, trusting that the child’s issues will naturally arise in their play. I am trained to interpret the meaning of children’s play and discuss with parents what is at the root of their child’s behavior. I work closely with parents to generate strategies that will help bring resolution to the child’s problems. In directive play therapy, specific activities are selected to teach a child skills or to better understand necessary concepts. I may work with the whole family to engage in activities that will bring understanding to the child’s issues and increase support in the child’s healing.
I also use play-based activities to foster and increase attachment between parents and children. I provide an array of expressive arts therapies including play, sand tray, art, music and movement.
Play therapy can be beneficial to a child who is experiencing problems related to anger, ADHD, death, transitions such as a new move, body image, starting school, birth of a sibling, abandonment, divorce, blended families, self-esteem, potty-training as well as trauma and abuse.
“The play therapy process can be viewed as a relationship between the therapist and the child in which the child utilizes play to explore his or her personal world and also to make contact with the therapist in a way that is safe for the child. Play therapy provides an opportunity for children to live out, during play, experiences and associated feelings. This process allows the therapist to experience, in a personal and interactive way, the inner dimensions of the child’s world. This therapeutic relationship is what provides dynamic growth and healing for the child.” (Landreth & Bratton, 2001).
Play therapy helps a child feel validated and understood, helping the child to grow in confidence, while feeling safe in the play environment.
Through the use of sand and miniatures an individual is able to creatively express themselves going to depths deeper than they may even be aware, it's not just for kids, adults too can find healing through the use of sand.
Sand Boxes of dry and moist sand are available. Client’s have at their disposal a number of small figures with which they can represent their internal worlds. “Sand Play” is a safe avenue to face inner fears and emotions. The therapist offers the client a “free and protected” space in which to work from.
I also use play-based activities to foster and increase attachment between parents and children. I provide an array of expressive arts therapies including play, sand tray, art, music and movement.
Play therapy can be beneficial to a child who is experiencing problems related to anger, ADHD, death, transitions such as a new move, body image, starting school, birth of a sibling, abandonment, divorce, blended families, self-esteem, potty-training as well as trauma and abuse.
“The play therapy process can be viewed as a relationship between the therapist and the child in which the child utilizes play to explore his or her personal world and also to make contact with the therapist in a way that is safe for the child. Play therapy provides an opportunity for children to live out, during play, experiences and associated feelings. This process allows the therapist to experience, in a personal and interactive way, the inner dimensions of the child’s world. This therapeutic relationship is what provides dynamic growth and healing for the child.” (Landreth & Bratton, 2001).
Play therapy helps a child feel validated and understood, helping the child to grow in confidence, while feeling safe in the play environment.
Through the use of sand and miniatures an individual is able to creatively express themselves going to depths deeper than they may even be aware, it's not just for kids, adults too can find healing through the use of sand.
Sand Boxes of dry and moist sand are available. Client’s have at their disposal a number of small figures with which they can represent their internal worlds. “Sand Play” is a safe avenue to face inner fears and emotions. The therapist offers the client a “free and protected” space in which to work from.
Play Therapy Rooms
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We have two unique Play Therapy Rooms at our location. Each Play Therapy room contains a Sand Tray.
Sand Tray therapy is a therapeutic approach used for people who have experienced a traumatic event. Although this type of therapy is used most often with children, it can also be helpful for teens and adults. Sand Therapy has been shown to benefit the following issues: ADHD Aggression Anger Management Anxiety Disorders Autism Spectrum Disorder Depression School-Related Problems Trauma and Crisis and much more. Puppets and toys offer a way to rebuild and restore positive relationships with children and adults, expression of emotions, exploration of real-life experiences. We have a variety of puppets and toys that are available that allow children and adults to project their thoughts and feelings. Our Play Therapy rooms also allow a parent and a child to connect and explore together. |
heal your family with Clammy, Sandi & Pearly!
At A Safe Space Counseling we also have our own personal and customized puppets for Play Therapy. Meet Clammy, Sandi and Pearly.
You may purchase these. We have the resin set for sand play therapy and the fabric puppets available. |
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