Play therapy offers many benefits including:

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• Allows a child to use their “natural language”, which is PLAY, to work through the challenges they are facing

• Uses a non-threatening approach to allow children to work through issues

• Helps a child to identify, communicate and manage their emotions

• Give children the skills to express strong feelings (e.g. anger & anxiety) in more healthy and positive ways

• Promotes self-esteem, self-control, self-respect and self-acceptance

• Helps improve relational skills by promoting trust and encouraging communication

• Reduces stress & anxiety levels

• Promotes problem solving & helps child develop a sense of mastery

• Helps a child to assume greater self-responsibility & promotes self-reliance/independence

• Helps a child to gain a clearer sense of self, to feel better about him/her self and to feel stronger inside

• Helps child to feel happier and more peaceful in life

• To give parents a sense of hope in their role as a parent and to give them guidance and tools they can implement at home to assist their child.