Play2change
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Therapeutic Support for
Children and Families
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"Our mission is to empower children and families to succeed through the most difficult times in their lives."
About
Play2change
At Play2change, our aim is to provide a much needed resource for children and families experiencing a variety of emotional, behavioural and/or social needs. We are passionate about people receiving timely, effective and affordable support.
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Here at Play2change, we strive for a more client and family defined therapy approach. Spending time understanding the family as a whole and thinking together about what support best suits the needs.
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Play2change has a child-centered approach to improve emotional and social health and well-being. To promote a natural way for children and young people to express their feelings and experiences through a self-healing process.
Play2change provides therapeutic support to children and families, by building on relationships and promoting stability.
This includes a variety of services to meet the needs of clients.
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All therapists hold a current DBS Check and Level 3 Child Safeguarding.
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Using play in therapy helps children and young people to express themselves in their own way; especially if they are struggling to understand how they are feeling, or are finding it hard to put their experiences into words.
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Using play means that the child can explore their thoughts and feelings in creative and dynamic ways, without having to use words to articulate themselves. In Play Therapy sessions, children explore their own creativity and express themselves using media such as: drawing and painting, water and clay, sand tray and miniatures, guided imagery and relaxation techniques, drama and puppetry, poetry, movement and music.
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Family and systemic psychotherapy – also known as family therapy – can help those in close relationships to better understand and support each other. It enables family members to express and explore difficult thoughts and emotions safely, understand each other’s experiences and views, appreciate each other’s needs, build on family strengths, and work together to make useful changes in their relationships and their lives.
Family therapy is to help provide a space where families can express and explore difficult thoughts and emotions safely, to understand each other’s experiences and views, and appreciate each other’s needs, while building on strengths and resources to make useful changes (AFT 2014).
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Child Consultation
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A variety of situations can often arise and a child's voice can not be heard. At Play2change, our ethos is placing the child in the centre and ensuring their voice is heard.
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Using a variety of therapeutic approaches, an impartial safe space is created to listen to the child's.
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Play2change works closely with Children1stmediation.
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https://children1stmediation.co.uk
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