What is counselling using Play the Arts?

I am an integrative counsellor who uses play and the arts as my medium in practice, I use techniques from different models, such as drawing from John Bowlby and Donald Winnicott’s theories, Transitional Analysis, Gestalt and more, which I use depends on the individual child/ young person, because one size does not fit all. I also use Play and the Arts, such as: painting, drawing, movement, sand play, movement and music to support children and Young people to explore and express their feelings with.

How Play and Arts Therapeutic Counselling helps?

• Helps us to bring out the unexpressed and repressed emotions.
• Unexpressed emotions leads to a build up of stress hormone chemicals.
• Engages the right brain (the creative brain), then engages the left brain (the thinking brain) to make sense of feelings and sensations.
• Develop ability to see situations from different perspectives.
• It can be easier to communicate how you are feeling to express big feelings using Play or the Arts.
• Taps in to creativity and imagination.
• Discharges energy.
• Building of trusting relationship.
• Develop ability to reflect.

Themes I work with:

• Bullying
• Working with relationships
• Discriminations
• Racism
• Academic, exam and school challenges
• Low mood/ Depression
• Domestic abuse
• Physical abuse
• Neglect
• Beravement/Loss
• Self confidance
• Truma
• anger
• anxiety
• Friendships
• communication with parents
• Emotional abuse
• Family relationship
• Identity
• Isolated
• Panic
• Parental mental health
• Sleep difficulty
• Social Media