Play Therapy Works!

 

Play therapy is to children what traditional talk therapy is to adults. Play therapy utilizes play, children's natural and developmentally appropriate mode of expression, to help them express their feelings more easily through toys, art, and games instead of words.

 

Association for Play Therapy (APT) defines play therapy as "the systematic use of a theoretical model to establish an interpersonal process wherein trained play therapists use the therapeutic powers of play to help clients prevent or resolve phychosocial difficulties and achieve optimal growth and development."