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.
Daniela is an experienced clinician working with children, adolescents, and families using individual, family, and group modalities. She seeks to gain an understanding of your family and child's unique needs and tailor treatment to best highlight your strengths. Daniela provides a safe, warm and playful environment that cultivates growth and will advance you on your therapy goals. She has...
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I have experience working with individual's and families dealing with trauma, depression, anxiety, life transitions, dual diagnosis, child and adolescent behavioral issues and health and lifestyle issues. I also provide parenting, anger management, decisions making skills and domestic violence recovery for victims group and individual therapy. I specialize in finding the appropriate modalities ...
I am a strengths perspective Clinical Social Worker, and Child Mental Health Specialist who has been working in the Wenatchee Valley since 1999, and in private practice at Listen To Kids Counseling in downtown Leavenworth since 2004. Helping children and their families to thrive through adverse experiences, and recover to their sense of well being is my number one goal in practice. It has been,...
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Lincoln Wachira Waitiki, MA.LMFT. is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (California license #LMFT109179) in an independent practice in Modesto, California. Since 2018, I offer therapy to families, individuals, couples and children facing a variety of relationship problems. Since 2005 I have provided therapeutic mental health specialty services to the underserved in San Joaquin County and...
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