Play Therapy

Helping children heal and grow through age-appropriate and child-centred Play Therapy.

How Play Therapy works

Play Therapy is a form of counselling for children that is age-appropriate and happens through toys and play, as well as through talking.  Children’s main form of communication is play. Just as adults talk through difficult situations, children play them out.

Play Therapy works well for many children as they get to play out thoughts and feelings that may be difficult to put into words.

Play is an important tool for learning, development and wellbeing

Play helps children learn to problem solve in new and creative ways

Play supports children to express and experience their emotions

Play develops a child’s physical and emotional strength and resilience

Through play, children build their understanding of the world

The importance of play:

Supporting Children Through

At Lotus Haven, we walk alongside children and young people (and their families), offering emotional, social and behavioural support for experiences including: 

  • Low self-esteem

  • School avoidance

  • Anxiety

  • Trauma

  • Healing after domestic violence and,

  • Processing family separation.

This style of therapy is non-directive, meaning children are encouraged through play to express the issues, feelings and difficulties that are relevant to them at the time.

Benefits of Play Therapy

There are many benefits of this type of counselling for children and their families. Play Therapy can assist parents and children to learn new skills and ways to communicate in the family, build emotional regulation, and facilitate positive changes in the brain within a safe, expressive, and contained environment.

Our role as Play Therapists is to hold safe space for your child to explore their internal world without fear or judgement, and offer tools and resources to support you as a family.  

Once a parent intake session is completed, your child will have one-on-one play therapy counselling sessions to work through their concerns and learn effective emotional regulation strategies and tools. We work closely with you as the parent to provide feedback on how your child is going in therapy, and will also teach you strategies learned in sessions so that skills can be translated from the counselling context to home and school.

We also offer parent support sessions, focused on education and personalised, holistic parenting techniques you can use to improve communication and build self-regulation with your child(ren).

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How Play Therapy works

Play Therapy Sessions

Available in-person in Narangba.

Available online for people across Australia and around the world.

 FAQs

  • Not at all. Just get in touch or head to the booking form and we'll help you set up an appointment time with the best therapist for you. This ensures you are quickly booked in and we respond to you within 48 business hours. Private direct bookings also ensure the utmost confidentiality, as no GP’s or other referrers get involved or require reports or summary letters.

  • No, only psychologists and some social workers can provide Medicare rebates under Mental Health Care Plans (MHCPs).

    However, working with a private counsellor means your sessions are strictly confidential, no summary letters need to be sent to your GP and no mental health diagnoses are required or reported on your medical history which is involved in the MHCPs.

    Currently in Australia, couples counselling is not covered under MHCPs, so all couples counselling is privately accessed in Australia.

  • We hope to be able to provide private health insurance rebates in the near future.