Hear For You - Play Therapy

Confidential Play and Filial Therapy Service for Children aged 3-18 years .

Barnardos Link accredited Children's Adoption Counsellor and Attachment Focussed Therapist.

Children in Divorce and Separation Counsellor

Play Therapy helps children explore troubling, painful feelings. All children can communicate through play and activities using toys, musical instruments, art materials, and sand. Within the sessions a child can choose to revisit difficult and traumatic life experiences in order to make sense of the past and cope better with the future. Play Therapy can provide a child with time to express themselves in a safe and contained way. It can promote resilience and steady emotions to enable a child to cope with the future. The Play Therapist can also help a Parent or Carer understand their child's inner world. The outcome for the child can be general such as a reduction in anxiety and increased self- esteem, or more specifically  a change in behaviour and improved relationships with family and friends.

Hear for You helps children who :

. Have trouble eating or sleeping

. Have low self-esteem

. Have emotional and behavioural difficulties

. Have experienced loss, family breakdown, separation, divorce, or bereavement

. Have witnessed violence, parental conflict or substance abuse

. Have experienced neglect, abuse, or trauma

. Are ill, disabled or have carers or siblings with disabilities