Play Therapy
Play Therapy helps children understand muddled feelings and upsetting events that they haven’t had the chance to sort out properly. Rather than having to explain what is troubling them, as adult therapy usually expects, children use play to communicate at their own level and at their own pace.
Play Therapy uses a range of creative tools to engage with children including arts & crafts, puppets, sand tray, role play, musical instruments and clay.
Art Therapy
Art Therapy, like dramatherapy, can be completely non verbal. It is different from art teaching in that it is not concerned with ‘good’ art. It is also not art as a hobby, or to improve artistic skills.
By expressing yourself through art, an Art Therapist can help you see things about yourself that you otherwise may not have. They can also help you understand thoughts and feelings that you are struggling with.
Talking Therapy
Although it can be hard to build up the courage, telling someone you trust how you’re feeling can help in lots of different ways.
Talking out loud about what’s going on in your head and explaining it to someone else, even if you think it doesn’t make sense, can make the things you’re worrying about seem much clearer.
Saying things can make them feel less frightening whereas keeping them inside only lets them build up and get more confusing. Talking to a counsellor can help you to see things from a different perspective and help you cope with difficult feelings and situations.
Movement Therapy
Movement Psychotherapy uses everyday movements, creative methods and talking to work through difficult emotions and problems. Sessions may include game activities, artwork, music and using props.
Difficult thoughts and feelings will be felt through your body as well as through your emotions. Your mind and body are connected therefore any changes that happen in the mind will affect the body and vice versa. By moving in different ways or becoming more aware of your body you can learn new ways of coping with the difficult feelings.
Group Therapy
It is hoped that group work will allow young people to meet, and work with other young people with similar issues to themselves.
Hopefully this will lead to removing the isolation that is often felt by young people when they are experiencing some difficulties. It also allows them to share experiences and possibly help each other, which can lead to an increase in confidence and self-esteem.
The group is a non-judgemental space, and each person’s opinion and view are respected and upheld. Participants are invited to contribute as little or as much as they are comfortable with.
Equine Assisted Psychotherapy
Horses are social animals and like to live in herds like families. Horses can read human body language and have a unique sensitivity to ‘tap’ into our individual unconscious and states of being. Equine Assisted Psychotherapy builds on this ability of relationship between horses and humans to express and explore our emotional issues by mirroring our behaviours and feelings. This can be used to draw parallels with a client’s inner world and their relationships with others.
Equine Assisted Psychotherapy can help children & young people in:- feelings and developing emotional regulation; working through traumatic experiences; developing their own identity and sense of self; learning respect and health boundaries; developing compassion, empathy and self-responsibility; attachment & relationships.
Horses can provide an important attachment figure to children & adolescents who have experienced humans as unsafe.
Online Counselling
Online counselling takes place with you and your counsellor in different locations. it is done using your smartphone, tablet or computer and a choice of e-mails, instant messaging, voice and video calls. It can occur in real-time or in a delayed way.
Online counselling might be right for you if you are too anxious to be in our building or travel. Distance therapy also makes it possible to get the help you need if you are far away, or you may just prefer working this way.
You can choose to have some or all of your sessions online. If you decide to have a mixture of distance counselling and some in person you will still be able to work with the same therapist.
