Drawing and Talking is an attachment based therapeutic intervention, using a non-directive, gentle approach to enable clients to explore their inner thoughts and feelings in a creative and safe way. Children are invited to create imagery through drawing or sometimes sandplay and are supported by myself, the practitioner, as I create and hold a safe space for them through attachment based practice. Their creations are stored and kept safe by me each week until the end of their twelve week programme when they are able to take them away and do with them as they wish.

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The Listening Stone programme (LSP) is an eight-session group programme aimed for primary school aged children who may have experienced trauma, loss, or bereavement. The aims of the LSP are to help children improve their emotional, mental, and spiritual health and their well-being. Additionally, the program supports their ability to build their own resilience and sense of hope. The programme explores the themes in the story, The Listening Stone. The eight sessions focus on issues and themes such as loss, friendship, identity, fear, anxiety, depression, resilience, hope, destiny, and purpose. The sessions are designed to help the children with the development of social and life skills as well as helping children with self-awareness and self-expression through playful, creative means in a safe and therapeutic space.

Play therapy is a fantastic way of giving someone a way of exploring their feelings and emotions if they don’t have the vocabulary to understand or explain these feelings. It can give them the tools they need to develop relationships in the future and to believe in themselves.

Children naturally learn and develop through play. Play therapy builds on this with the support and expertise of a trained therapist. We work with children to help them access important thoughts and feelings they don’t realise they have.