Children’s counselling can help when something is making your child or young person unhappy and addresses issues that are negatively impacting a child’s growth, development, mental health, and well-being.
Our children’s counsellors are highly experienced and work creatively to help children make sense of what is going on in their minds, bodies, and lives – in a way that they can understand.
Play Therapy helps children understand muddled feelings and upsetting events that they haven’t had the chance to sort out properly. Rather than having to explain what is troubling them, as adult therapy usually expects, children use play to communicate at their own level and at their own pace, without feeling interrogated or threatened.
Play is vital to every child’s social, emotional, cognitive, physical, creative and language development. It helps make learning concrete for all children and young people including those for whom verbal communication may be difficult.
Play Therapy helps children in a variety of ways. Children receive emotional support and can learn to understand more about their own feelings and thoughts. Sometimes they may re-enact or play out traumatic or difficult life experiences in order to make sense of their past and cope better with their future. Children may also learn to manage relationships and conflicts in more appropriate ways.
The outcomes of Play Therapy may be general e.g. a reduction in anxiety and raised self-esteem, or more specific such as a change in behaviour and improved relations with family and friends.
Contact4th August 2020
On the 30th November 2019, Isabella and Lucia organised a charity night for over 350 people at Teesside University hub…
3rd December 2019
Three friends of Russ’ have completed the New York City Marathon in November raising funds for the Headlight Project! Jay…
29th November 2019
Huge congratulations to Hutton Rudby Primary School, who have are winners of the “Community Fundraisers Award” at the 2019 Gazette…
28th November 2019
An annual wine tasting event hosted by Cafe Lilli in Norton has helped raise an amazing £1100 for the Headlight…