Play Therapy for Children (ages 4–10) 🎲

🧸 A child’s language is play, a child’s words are toys

(Ekman)

Play Therapy is a form of psychological support for a child, during which a specially trained professional plays with the child in a prepared environment, using carefully selected and adapted toys (although often the child chooses the toys and leads the play themselves). Through this process, the child can express themselves and the emotions they are experiencing in the most natural activity for children – play.

MY METHODS

In my work with children, I use the Violet Oaklander model of play therapy.
It is one of the most effective approaches in child counseling, because play is the natural language of children. When a child cannot yet put into words what is troubling them – they show it through play.

🎓 I am a certified play therapy practitioner, which means every game becomes an opportunity for the child to express themselves and to learn how to manage their inner world.

🧠 How does it work?

🧩 Therapeutic play looks no different from ordinary play – we play familiar games, draw, build, and create. Sometimes I simply follow the child in their play.
🪄 But these simple activities, if we know how to look at them, can reveal so much.

🎨 I use playful and projective tools:
– drawing
– unfinished sentences
– sand tray
– dolls
– thematic toys

👨‍👩‍👧 The role of parents – essential

🤝 Consultations usually take place together with parents or partially.
🎯 In my work, I show parents how to play with their child in a therapeutic way, so that this continues at home as well, helping the child feel safe everywhere, not only in the therapy room.
📆 One session per week is not enough – it is important that similar approaches and behavior models are applied at home too, so the child can grow in a consistent, supportive environment.

❓ When can play therapy help?

🌀 When a child is experiencing strong emotions:
– anxiety, anger, sadness, fears

📦 When there are behavioral difficulties:
– impulsivity, withdrawal, aggression

🌍 After major life changes:
– moving, divorce, changing schools

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 When facing social difficulties:
– struggling to make friends, to communicate with others

💔 After traumatic experiences:
– loss, accidents, violence

🧩 In the presence of developmental disorders

🌱 And even when there is no clear reason, but you feel that your child simply doesn’t feel at ease.

✉️ I invite you to get in touch

If you are reading this text, you probably feel that it’s worth having a conversation.
Write to me. We will meet, talk it over, and decide together what is best for your child.

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