Services
Supporting your child’s emotional, behavioural, and developmental growth
As an Integrative Play Therapist, I draw on a range of evidence-based approaches to meet your child where they are. Rather than working from a single model, I use my training and clinical experience to respond to your child’s developmental stage, emotional needs, and family context. Therapy is shaped through both careful thinking and relational attunement.
Directive 'Learn to Play' Therapy
Directive Play Therapy is a structured, goal-focused form of Play Therapy. It is often used when a child needs support developing foundational skills such as flexible thinking, play skills, emotional regulation, or social understanding, including children with neurodevelopmental differences such as autism and ADHD. Sessions are intentionally guided while remaining engaging and developmentally appropriate. This approach strengthens the cognitive and emotional capacities that support confident learning, peer relationships, and adaptive behaviour.
Child-Centered Humanistic Play Therapy
Humanistic Play Therapy is a child-led, evidence-based mental health approach grounded in strong therapeutic relationships. In this model, the child guides the play while the therapist provides consistent emotional attunement, reflection, and safety. Research supports this approach for a range of mental health concerns, including anxiety, emotional dysregulation, behavioural challenges, trauma, grief, attachment difficulties, and adjustment concerns. It can also support children who are experiencing the world in ways that feel intense or hard to organise, including those with neurodevelopmental differences such as autism and ADHD. Through the therapeutic relationship, children are able to express and process emotions, build self-regulation, and develop greater emotional insight. The relationship itself becomes a secure base from which growth can occur.
Family Play Therapy
Family Play Therapy is a research-supported, relationship-based approach that involves parents directly in the therapeutic process. Parents are guided to use structured Play Therapy skills with their child at home, strengthening connection, emotional safety, and confidence within the parent-child relationship. The therapist supports and coaches the parent, ensuring the work remains grounded in evidence-informed practice. This approach embeds therapeutic change within everyday family life, often leading to sustainable improvements in emotional regulation, behaviour, and relational patterns.
