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Play Therapy = Therapeutic play, (including play therapy) , is a well established discipline based upon a number of psychological theories. Research, both qualitative and quantitative shows that it is highly effective in many cases. Recent research by PTUK suggests that 75% of the children referred will show a positive change. = A safe, confidential and caring environment is created which allows the child to play with as few limits as possible but as many as necessary (for safety). This allows healing to occur on many levels following our natural inner trend towards health. Play and creativity operate on impulses from outside our awareness - the unconscious.

Satir Family Enrichment Therapy and Family Reunions = In Family Enrichment Therapy, several family members take part. Both parents are involved, together with one of the children whose problems brought the family to treatment in the first place. At times they are joined by the other children in the family, or even grandparents. = The aim of Family Enrichment Therapy is to alleviate the problems that led to the disorder in the identified member, rather than to achieve some ideal state of a perfect family. Its principal use is in the treatment of childhood and adolescent difficulties which affect the other members of the family. Family Reunions are devised to allow members of a family or other social group who have been in conflict, to reunite with each other with peace and love. = We also offer Family of Origin exploration through photographic analysis and action methods, and family reunions, in two or more intensive sessions lasting several hours each, to renew strained connections. Sand Play Therapy = Sandplay therapy uses the symbolism of three-dimensional figures in a hands-on, non-verbal process. The sand itself, water and the therapist’s collection of miniatures provide natural and cultural symbols. Adult and child clients working with sandplay therapists may or may not create a sand scene in every session, but sometimes work with talking therapy, play objects, art, or other techniques. = But the trays of wet and dry sand and the powerfully symbolic miniatures remain available, stimulating whatever form of therapy occurs. Clients may complete a few, or as many as 50, sandplay scenes to fulfill their process of allowing the unconscious to communicate its meaning. The process can help heal psychic wounds that have divided the individual from the deep source of their being by allowing the psyche to express itself through their heart and hands. = Sandplay therapists do not interpret sandplay images during the sandplay therapy session but observe them with the adult or child client and listen and respond to their comments. Throughout the work, the therapist facilitates the process by holding the sacred space, or temenos. This is the “free and protected place” that Dora Kalff said was critical for the client to connect with and express the deep psyche. Each sandplay scene is left intact until the client leaves, at which time the therapist photographs the tray and makes sketches and notes. = Clients as well as the therapist tend to know when a process is complete, but, in order to allow the work to integrate fully in the psyche without critical analysis, photographs are not released nor is the process interpreted with the client until several years later.