Play Therapy is an approach to counseling utilized for children. Children learn to understand the world through play. Play Therapy embraces play to facilitate therapeutic interventions. Play can include games, dolls, art activities, sports, make-believe, or any other activity that fits a child developmentally and emotionally.
Play Therapy can be beneficial for children with behavioral issues. Because these children might not have the words to communicate their feelings or might not want to, this allows them a space to express themselves and share their feelings through play.
Play therapists get to know the child’s specific interests and can tailor their counseling space to make it unique for each child. As the counselor observes and interacts with the child, they can understand the emotions that lead to their behaviors. Over time, therapists can encourage children to use play to express feelings instead of expressing them through inappropriate or harmful behaviors.
Play Therapy can also be used for adults to help them connect with their inner creativity and facilitate child-like joy.
I enjoy working with families, and individuals seeking help with regulating their emotions and shifting destructive patterns that effect either their relationships with others or their own internal relationship with the Self. I include parents in the process of supporting children and teens, offering strategies and new perspectives. I specialize in the treatment of Complex Trauma. I support...
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Collaborative Health Center is a group practice with 13 clinicians with diverse backgrounds, specialties, training, and interests. We believe in offering an environment that most effectively nurtures growth and healing in our clients. We treat children, adolescents, families, and adults. While our practitioners' trainings are generalized, we have specialties in the areas of anxiety, depression,...
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Se Habla Español. Llame para una consulta gratis. Are you finding yourself questioning what is your life's purpose? Wondering if this is where you need to be in life. Asking if you are making the right decision/choice? Are you experiencing periods of sadness, worry, frustration or sleepless nights? Are recent changes in life difficult to manage? Are you a new parent, a newlywed, are you going...
Hello, I am Marvin Hughley, LMHC, MCAP, SAP, and owner of Hughley's Mental Health Services. I have over 15 years experience in the Counseling Profession. I am a Military Veteran who graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelors Degree in Criminology and I have a Masters Degree in Counseling and Psychology from Troy University. I am a State of Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor,...
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