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Play Therapy

Child-focused play therapy provides a nurturing environment where your child can freely express their emotions, navigate big feelings and develop healthy coping skills. 

Within the playroom, toys serve as the child’s language, allowing them to explore and make sense of their inner world. This therapeutic approach empowers children to utilise selfexpression as a means of healing.

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About Play Therapy

Engaging in play therapy enhances your child’s emotional well-being, enriches their interactions with others and cultivates a more harmonious home environment. Challenging behaviours can be safely processed within the playroom, reducing their occurrence outside therapy sessions and fostering healthier relationships within the family.

Throughout your child’s play therapy sessions, parents are also supported, gaining valuable insights and tools to facilitate their child’s growth. This collaborative approach creates enduring positive changes for the entire family. 

Play Therapy supports:

 
  • Safe expression and exploration of their inner and real world experiences. 
  • Non-directive form of counseling where the therapist follows the child’s lead, allowing the therapist to enter the child’s world. 
  • Validation and empathy, acceptance and authenticity, reflection and regulation.
  • Understanding and integration of complex experiences. 
  • Development of sense of self, problem solving, communication, and confidence. 
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Play at OKAY

Join our evidence-based playgroup program for 3 to 5-year-olds led by an experienced Group Theraplay® Specialist and Occupational Therapist.

This playgroup is perfect for parents and
caregivers who value play-based learning for lifelong skills for their little ones, seek highly skilled therapists to support their child’s unique needs and want their child to form genuine connections with other children.

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