Toys are children’s words, and play is their language,” Dr. Garry Landreth

Play Therapy

Play Therapy is to kids what talk therapy is to adults. Children use play because it is their natural language, and the toys become their words. Play therapy allows a child to change the way they think about, feel toward, and resolve their concerns.  

 Play Therapy can help manage:

  • ADHD

  • Anxiety

  • Behavioral issues

  • Depression

  • Divorce

  • Fears/Phobias

  • Fighting

  • Life transitions

  • School issues

  • Self-esteem

  • Sibling conflicts

  • Sleep challenges

Play Therapy is the preferred intervention for working with children because they often do not have the verbal ability to express their thoughts or feelings. The positive relationship between the therapist and child during Play Therapy can provides a consistent experience that promotes well-being, empowerment and can lead to healing for the entire family.

Why Play Therapy?

Play therapy is an evidenced-based intervention which was specifically created to help children use play to understand their world and the world around them. Play Therapy is performed in a therapeutic space called a playroom. which is designed to look and feel like a standard playroom, but contains toys that have been specially chosen to encourage the safe expression of feelings and streamline the learning of healthy behaviors. This is a safe place for children to comfortably confront and address their struggles and is the ideal clinical approach for children.

Play therapy has been successful in addressing a variety of common challenges including: 

o   Behavioral Difficulties Parent-Child Relationship Struggles including Attachment

o   Issues related to Grief & Loss such as Death, Divorce or Incarceration 

o   Social and Emotional Challenges

o   Trauma 

Who Provides Play Therapy?

Play Therapy should only be provided by licensed clinical mental health professionals with a graduate mental health degree and extensive specialized play therapy education, training and supervised experience, known as a Registered Play Therapist.

Rising Lotus offers services by a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor (RPT-S) and a Registered Play Therapist in Training. Learn more about our therapists here.

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