Decca Warrington
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About me
I am a trainee in Play and Creative Arts Therapy with Adults, offering face-to-face sessions. The creative approach provides a route that is sometimes hard to reach through words alone.
Training, qualifications & experience
I am an Accredited Play Therapist, Certified Play and Creative Arts Counsellor of Children and Young People, and Certified Supervisor of Play and Creative Arts Therapists.
I am very excited that I am now embarking on training as a Play and Creative Arts Counsellor with Adults. This programme combines counselling theory, attachment-informed practice, trauma-informed approaches, and creative arts methods to support adults experiencing feelings such as anxiety, depression, trauma, bereavement, relationship difficulties, life transitions, and emotional challenges.
The approach is founded upon the belief that human beings have an innate capacity for growth, creativity, relationship and meaning making. Creativity is understood not as an artistic skill or a product to be judged, but as a fundamental human capacity through which experience can be explored, expressed, embodied and understood.
Creative arts counselling is not something that is done to a client. Nor is creative work primarily a diagnostic tool through which the counsellor interprets another person's unconscious experience. Instead, I strongly believe that my role is to support the relational, psychological and physical conditions within which creativity, curiosity, play and authentic expression can safely emerge. This requires holding a safe, confidential space where non-judgemental warmth and respect can flourish and complex emotions explored.
I feel I can bring the same level as enthusiasm and commitment to working with adult clients as I do with children. I believe that my skills as a play therapist can be happily transferred to work with adults, where a creative approach using, for example, art materials, can help gain insight into areas which words alone cannot reach.
Member organisations
Play Therapy UK is the largest organisation governing therapeutic play and play therapy in the United Kingdom. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£45.00 per session
Additional information
The rate offered is as a trainee, expected to increase on qualification.
