Group Play Therapy
In group play therapy children benefit from the therapeutic relationship we develop and also from each other. During the sessions I therapeutically guide interactions, which improves children’s emotional awareness, boosts their confidence and develops their prosocial skills.
The group becomes a miniature version of the children’s real world and is a safer space to try things out and practise responses or behaviours with the support of a therapist and the group.
Group play therapy sessions are often more directive, using structured activities around themes that suit the group, such as managing anxiety, improving peer relationships, loss or bereavement, accept a new sibling into the family, coping with parental or sibling illness/ hospitalisation, dealing with divorce or parental separation and adjusting after relocation.
Group play therapy sessions usually take place in schools and work best with between 3 and 4 children. I would recommend a minimum of 6 sessions. Each sessions is approximately 50 minutes long.
