Play Therapy at Perth Children’s Counselling: Counselling for Children 3-10

Play Therapy is a powerful way of counselling for children (see video).

Perth Children’s Counselling provides counselling for children through Play Therapy.  Play Therapy can produce change in a child that is deep, stable and enduring.  This forms good foundations for a child’s future growth and development, through into adolescence.

When children find things difficult, they may develop behaviour which is unhelpful.  Your child may be angry, sad or anxious a lot of the time.  Or maybe they are OK a lot of the time, but then get intensely angry, sad or anxious at other times, in a way that worries you.  Or maybe you just have a sense that things are not quite right.  If this is so, maybe Play Therapy can help.

• Play Therapy is an effective way of counselling children because it is developmentally appropriate: it works through playing with children, rather than talking.
• Play Therapy is a systematic and evidence-based approach to counselling children.  It is so much more than “just play” (see here).

Help your child flourish through Play Therapy

Counselling your child through Play Therapy can assist your child to be:

• Able to develop more harmonious and enjoyable relationships with family and friends
• More settled, self-aware and able to make appropriate choices
• Able to self-regulate thoughts, feelings and behaviour (age appropriately)
• Able to access their creativity to solve problems in a positive way

Perth Children’s Counselling specialises in Play Therapy.  Childrens Counsellor and Play Therapist, Pek Yen Lee, provides Play Therapy, Counselling and parenting support.  Click here for more information.

Some Issues That Can Be Helped Through Play Therapy

Behavioural, emotional and social issues, moods e.g. depression, anxiety, worry, fear; undue anger/aggression; trauma, family changes, adjusting to school, migration, grief and loss. These and more may be helped through counselling with Play Therapy. See “What Play Therapy can help” for further information.

Some Goals Of Play Therapy

Play Therapy aims for children to:

• Become self-accepting (sometimes called self esteem)
• Become confident and self-reliant (self-efficacy)
• Become aware of their feelings and able to self-regulate their emotions.
• Have the capacity to make appropriate choices and decisions
• Have capacity for self-control and self-responsibility
• Have empathy for others

In Play Therapy, children have the opportunity to:

• Explore and express feelings and thoughts,
• Have opportunities to explore power, control and responsibility,
• Learn and practice problem-solving and relationship skills,
• Increase their vocabulary around feelings, thoughts and actions.