How do we work?
Through playing sessions with your child we try to stimulate their self-confidence and aim to bolster and strengthen their emotional capacity. Our purpose in this is to teach children to better deal with difficult situations. By reinforcing the self healing capacity of your child and his or her strength, your child can feel safer, stronger and better.
Play is a very effective way of helping children work out emotional conflicts, since play is a universal language for children. Defense mechanisms, sometimes a problem in verbal therapy, are often overcome through play as the child tends to honestly acts out his or her conflicts, needs and feelings. Strong identifications with the play characters enable the child both to identify his difficulties and find resolutions. The therapist helps the child in this process.
By playing with your child we get to know how s/he constructs their inner world and what that world looks like. In their play children show (in an unconscious way) their world view. They also reveal how they want to be helped and what the best way is to do that. Through playing we offer the child possibilities to introduce changes in his or her life.
By means of creativity (like drawing), reading stories, imagination techniques and by various toys, we try to find a suitable therapeutic form that best suits your child.
We also use various imagination techniques and coached imagination, role playing and more. Through various methods and means children usually show us what bothers them and how he or she wants to be helped.
All sessions are taped. This allows the therapists to be completely focused on the child and on playing and treating the child and not on taking notes. For obvious confidentiality reasons there are extremely strict privacy rules that apply to the tapes, which are only used in the individual supervision process of the therapists.
