Play/Expressive Therapy

My hope is to provide a nurturing environment for children and support parents to do the same.

I believe the power of expressive art/play in this environment in facilitating growth, hope, resilience and healing. The approaches and modalities I use depends on each child’s choice(s), presenting issue(s), developmental stage, and temperament as well as family circumstances, including:

• Child-Centred Play/Expressive Therapy

• Sandtray Therapy

• Play-based Intervention

• Use of expressive arts including music, visual arts, dance/movements, writing, drama

• Somatic/Body-based Psychotherapy

• Attachment Therapy

• Mindfulness-based Therapy

• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

• Child Parent Relationship Therapy

• Parenting Support/Consultation

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Children and Parents

I work with children on issues including: 

• intense and persistent sadness and feeling depressed

• acting-out, angry or disruptive behavior

• anxiety, worries and fears

• shy, withdrawn or clingy behavior

• struggles at school (academic, social or emotional issues)

• emotional stress related to adjustment or transitions

• grief and loss

• sibling conflicts

• effect of trauma or exposure to traumatic situations

Support may be provided to parents/caregivers on issues including:

• parenting concerns (e.g. managing children's difficult emotions and behaviors, feeling helpless or overwhelmed in parenting)

• difficult family situations (e.g. separation/divorce, move or immigration, extended family collaboration)

• parent-child conflicts

• parents' or caregiver's own emotional management

• bonding and attachment with children

• grief and loss

• learning/developmental divsered abilites/disabilities