Child Therapy Institute
Play therapy is a specialized therapeutic approach that helps children express emotions, process difficult experiences, and develop healthy coping skills.
Guided by a therapist, play therapy creates a safe space where kids can use toys, art, and imagination to explore their feelings and navigate life’s challenges.
In this increasingly complex, dynamic, and fast-moving time, children continue to need places to play and explore their imaginations to develop essential skills as they grow.
At Child Therapy Institute, we provide a variety of therapeutic experiences to support their emotional and developmental needs. Children meet in person with a therapist weekly, exploring challenges in a safe environment where they can find a voice to express and work toward resolution. Monthly parent meetings provide insight into their progress and ways to offer support to them at home. The work of each child and their caregivers can be highly individualized based on predicaments, capacities, circumstances, and history.
Play therapy, expressive arts, sandplay, and games are all used to further the capacities of the growing child. When needed, more directive, cognitive and behaviorally based practices can be utilized to increase containment and relaxation. As distress eases, new possibilities for a child’s potential frequently become manifest.
Some children experience emotions with a deeper tone and need extra support to process their inner and outer worlds, even if they don’t show serious symptoms.
Through expressive arts therapy, children can explore their emotions, build confidence, and develop nourishing ways to navigate social and home life, with parents receiving guidance on how to support their growth.
Sandplay therapy is a non-directive, non-verbal approach that allows children to create scenes in a sandbox using miniature figures, giving shape to their inner experiences and allowing their unconscious thoughts and emotions to emerge naturally.
Through this process, they can explore and resolve inner conflicts, process emotions, and gain a sense of agency and self-discovery, all within a safe and supportive therapeutic space.
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