Play Therapy
At Inner Mind Counseling, we play!
Play is not just part of the treatment or incorporated into it, PLAY IS THE TREATMENT (with a registered play therapist).
Children naturally use play as a way to process their feelings, and solve problems.
Registered play therapists know how to use that to our advantage and turn child led play into the most effective type of therapy for children.
Your child gets to decide what they talk about,
what toys they want to play with and
how they want to play with them.
Play allows your child to go deeper into their subconscious mind to work through difficult feelings and events.
Your child will instinctively play out what they're feeling in the playroom using symbolism and metaphor.
While your child is playing, the difficult feeling or event is brought to conscious awareness and activated in their body as though the feeling or event is happening in that moment.
The play therapist is there to help your child tolerate the feelings and make sense of events as they play through it.