“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in year of conversation”.
Plato
What is play therapy?
Play therapy is the use of a child's innate playfulness and language in the context of one-on-one care with a play therapist. Children are able to express their emotions and behaviors freely in a safe and respectful environment, while dealing with their own stress and difficulties. Through the process of play therapy, children can manage their thoughts and emotions, and learn to cope with stress and challenges such as restlessness, anxiety, fear, withdrawal, adaptation, and special learning needs. This enhances the development of self-esteem, confidence, resilience, and positive emotional well-being.
Who fits for Play Therapy?
Play therapy is particularly suitable for children, but can also be used for adolescents and adults.
Children with the following conditions can benefit from play therapy:
Low mood, sadness or depression, nightmares filled with anger and hostility, excessive fear and worry, self-harming behaviors, refusal to attend school, social difficulties, excessive reliance on caregivers, parental divorce, witnessing violence and traumatic events, adjustment problems, bullying, abuse, and special learning needs, among others.
Duration for each session
The required duration varies for each child, with each session typically lasting about 45 minutes. For specific issues, some children may only need four to six sessions, and their parents observed their children have great changes in attitudes and behaviours as a result. In general, it takes about eight to twelve sessions. More severe problems may require a greater number of sessions. Play therapy not only helps children eliminate and solve problems but also sets them on a path of healthy and abundant growth.
Parent workshop - Child Parent Relationship Therapy
Does your child exhibit these behaviors? Temper Tantrums, lying, withdrawal, difficulty getting along with others, lack of motivation in learning, and so on.
These behaviors often conceal underlying psychological distress. The focus of this workshop is on how to listen to the needs, emotions, and desires expressed by children through play. By providing appropriate responses, parent can convey a deep sense of care & understanding for their children, helping them overcome emotional obstacles, restore healthy emotions, and develop positive growth.
This course helps parents aware the important of child-parent relationship, attitudes, approaches, and techniques for communicating with their children, enabling them to understand their children's inner world through play. It promotes child-parent relationships and improves children's emotional and behavioral problems.
Facilitator: Sin Wai Chun, June, Play Therapist (MSC, PT)
June is a licensed play therapist dedicated to helping parents relearn how to assist their kids through child centered play therapy in a practical way. June has a Bachelor of Art (BA) in Social Work at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. June has also a Master’s degree of Science in Play Therapy from the University of South Wales. She was also a registered social worker in Hong Kong Social Workers Registration Board and a member in the British Association of Play Therapists.
June understands every client is unique, and treatment may vary. So, she continues to learn about emerging psychological trends and therapies to different social services organizations, universities, schools and kindergartens. June has worked various clients in Hong Kong and has a therapy success rate of 90%. (Connect with June to learn more about what is play therapy and check out her latest podcast episode of how to support parents in the video clips from our website at http.//www.embcounselling.ca)
Currently practicing play therapy in Embrace Counselling Services Centre, June looks forward to using her specialties; education and training, and skills set to touch more lives.