What is Play Therapy?

Through training and working as a Social Worker and as a Teacher, I have seen many young children and infants who desperately needed help, but couldn't get it.  In many of the places that I worked, there weren't any mental health services locally for children who hadn't developed speech yet.  Then I discovered Play Therapy.  Since completing my Masters in Childhood Play Therapy at Deakin University, (the first university in Australia to provide a Masters in Play Therapy course), so much of what I previously found confusing about children and their behaviour, now makes sense.  

I hope to spread seeds of thought and share my growing understanding, with all who will listen and open their hearts and minds, to the language of the child.  There is no child too young and no adult too old to benefit from play.  So what are you waiting for?  Let's get playing!