Louise Pye - Play Therapist/Child Counsellor

Louise Pye Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB4
tel: 07816 568014 web: www.louisepye.co.uk Click here to Email me

Profile

I offer Play Therapy (counselling) to children throughout the Cambridgeshire area. I am a Certified Play Therapist and have worked with children for over 20 years in many different capacities including fostering, education and play work. My therapeutic approach is both professional and human and I have a natural affinity with children.

Play Therapy enables children to express their feelings in a safe environment, to work through things that are bothering them and to make sense of their life experiences. My work aims to enable children to acknowledge their feelings in a constructive way and give them strategies for coping with the difficulties they face. I work with art materials including paint and clay, musical instruments, puppets, drama, creative visualisation, relaxation and sand tray and small world figures.

I am supported by a qualified supervisor in my work, I hold a clear CRB enhanced disclosure and professional liability insurance.

Training, Qualifications & Experience

2008 Post Graduate Diploma in Practice Based Play Therapy
2007 Post Graduate Certificate in Therapeutic Play
2006 Skills and Theory for Counselling Young People
2005 Intermediate Certificate in Counselling Skills
2003 BEd (Hons)
2002 Introduction to Counselling
I have over 200 hours experience, working with children and young people both on an individual and group basis.

Areas of counselling I deal with

Other areas of counselling I deal with

I am a Play Therapist so work with any issues affecting children and young people from the ages of 4 to 16.

Play Therapy can be effective for children or adolescents coping with a disrupted lifestyle through moving or other upset, a severe loss or bereavement, accident or illness, physical disability, problems with a sibling or another family member, abuse, bullying, school refusal.

Play Therapy can also be useful for children and young people who have ongoing problems affecting any areas of their lives such as problems with relationships, wetting, soiling, smearing, eating disorders, sleeping disorders, immature behaviour, inappropriate emotional responses, being withdrawn, temper tantrums, violent outbursts, chaotic and messy or unnaturally 'fussy', self harm, hurting animals or smaller children.

Fees

£35 per session.