Children do as you do. Your child watches you to get clues on how to behave in the world. You’re her role model, so use your own behaviour to guide her. What you do is often much more important than what you say. If you want your child to say ‘please’, say it yourself. If Read More…
Bonding With Baby
Strong and secure attachment is vital to your baby’s development. You can build attachment by learning to read your baby’s signals and knowing how to best respond to your baby’s needs. Attachment: the basics Attachment is the strong, long lasting bond between a baby and his caregiver. Secure attachment develops in response to consistent and sensitive Read More…
Connecting With Your School Age Child
Understanding school-age children: the basics At school, your child is busy learning and making friends. This includes trying to understand the rules of life, learning about manners, values and what’s right and wrong, and finding role models like teachers and other trusted grown-ups. At the same time, your child’s brain is developing rapidly, bringing increased Read More…
Why Play Therapy?
Play Therapy is a deeply respectful, heartful and effective form of counseling and psychotherapy for children from 3-16 years old. It is a humanistic Play Therapy modality that provides wonderful opportunities for early intervention with children. Play Therapy fosters the child’s innate potential and encourages the unique development and emotional growth of the child. In Read More…
Play To Grow Open Day 2015
Come and experience ‘hands on’ Play Therapy with our trained Play Therapists! Play Therapy is a well established and researched form of child therapy which allows the child to ‘play out’ his or her feelings and problems. Play therapy uses a variety of play & creative techniques to alleviate mild, moderate & chronic psychological and emotional conditions Read More…
Introducing Play Therapy
Video: Introducing Andrew and Play Therapy We invite you to call for details about Play Therapy – (02) 9673 1211