About me
Play Therapy provides a safe, protected and free space for children who struggle to understand how they are feeling or find it hard to put their emotional experiences into words. It helps children process and communicate their thoughts and feelings, as well as unresolved trauma through the creative toolkit, including sand, arts and crafts, puppets, music and creative visualisations. Talking can be very challenging and fearful for children and this is not required.
Katie is an Accredited PTUK Play and Creative Arts Therapist, with extensive experience of working with neurodiverse young people including her work as a Case Lead for an Alternative Provision where young people struggled to attend school.
As a Play Therapist, Katie works both privately and in schools, offering both long and short term therapy sessions. Katie's experience includes helping children who struggle to attend school, find it difficult to communicate their thoughts and feelings, experiencing emotional and social difficulties, such as anger, anxiety, phobias, low self-confidence, difficulty forming peer relationships, loss, bereavement and parental separation as well as attachment and trauma. In addition, Katie has worked with parents and carers who are struggling with anxiety and overwhelm.
Through her work as a Case Lead and SEN Specialist teacher for an Alternative Provision, Katie has specialised in working with young people diagnosed with ADHD, Autism, PDA and FASD.
Training, qualifications & experience
- PTUK Postgraduate Diploma in Play Therapy - Distinction
- PTUK Certificate in Therapeutic Play - Merit
- PGCE - Postgraduate Diploma in Education
- CPCAB Counselling Skills Training - Level 2 and 3
- Beacon House Attachment Training
- Level 3 Safeguarding
- Parent Child Attachment Play (PCAP)
- Mental Health First Aid
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).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
PDA
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
Additional information
My fees include meetings and reviews.
Further information
It can all feel very overwhelming as a parent or carer. Why not give me a call or send me an email and we can talk through your options and whether Play Therapy is suitable for your child. We can then make a plan if you feel this is the right therapy.
