Welcome
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Flourish in play services aims to offer children and young people a safe, therapeutic space, in which to find a solution to meet their individual needs. This holistic approach ensures that each child or young person is supported to achieve their full potential.
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Guidance can be offered to parents and carers, to find resolution to common parenting challenges.
“Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.” – Abraham Maslow
Emotional well-being underpins children and young people’s social, cognitive, emotional, physical, creative and language development.
Yet 1 in 8 children, or young person, has a mental health illness.
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.” - Carl Jung
Play Therapy enables children, and young people, to explore their thoughts, feelings, experiences and behaviours in a safe place.
Non - directive play, using a variety of creative materials, enables children and young people to project their thoughts and feelings, and find resolution, without the use of words.
“It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.” ― Donald Woods Winnicott
