With a trained play therapist play can become therapeutic. There are many different ways to do play therapy. I use the Ecosystemic Play Therapy model. I look at where your child is developmentally in all areas of her life like; at home, with peers, with extended family, socially and academically.

Often children come into treatment because they somehow have fallen off the normal growth pattern; play therapy returns them to healthy coping and growth.

I use puppets, role playing, drawing, storytelling and Sandtray to help facilitate growth and change. Sandtray therapy involves the use of a large sandtray and many miniatures that represent all aspects of life. Using the miniatures in the sandtray leads to expression of feelings, attitudes and beliefs that may be blocking the client. Sandtray and play therapy techniques are used with children and teens as well as individual adults, couples and families. Communication is not always verbal and the child’s use of toy figures can often reveal issues that they are not able to discuss with words.