How to Use Play Therapy to Heal Trauma for Children

Children and adolescents who have experienced trauma have unique needs in the play therapy process.

Using a developmental lens to understand the impact of trauma can provide important information for identifying how to best help them heal.

Play therapy can access the therapeutic powers of play to facilitate healing because it allows child and adolescent therapists to explore and address the impact of trauma from a holistic approach.

This holistic approach using play therapy addresses the sensory aspects of trauma so you can bypass the cognitive challenges children often experience when working through trauma once their threat circuits are activated.

What are essential “ingredients” of the play therapy healing process regardless of your theoretical model?

I’ll share three essential tasks to include using play therapy with traumatized children and teens regardless of your theoretical model.

These three essential tasks will ensure you create a strong foundation of support for the healing process

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