Cheshire Play Therapy

Non-directive Play Therapy offers a protected therapeutic space in which a child can explore and work through issues that are hindering his or her well-being and development. Within the safe relationship with the therapist, a child is able to ‘play out’ feelings and problems at his or her own pace.

“Play is the child’s natural medium of self-expression” (Virginia Axline) In play therapy he/she can try out alternative scenarios or endings safely, return to earlier stages of development, and play out feelings that are troubling him/her.

Some more information about Virginia Axline's 8 Principles,
which form the basis of Play Therapy today.

“By playing out these feelings he brings them to the surface, gets them out in the open, faces them, learns to control them, or abandons them.”

Virginia Axline