By Pablee Wong, MC, RCC, RMFT, RPT-S
What is Play Therapy?
Parents often ask what play therapy is and how play therapy can help dealing with their children’s behavioral and emotional problems. Play Therapy differs from regular play as well as regular “talk therapy”. When it comes to counselling children, the method we use is play therapy instead of talk therapy. Children are too young to articulate the intensity of their struggles with words. Therefore, “Play” will be the words and the medium for children to communicate their feelings and struggles at hand. With the use of selected materials & toys, and in a safe environment with necessary limits; the trained play therapist supports children to work through their struggles with their inner potentials and resources.
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