Explore Play Therapy for Children, Adolescents and Families

What is Play Therapy?

A room with a shelf of toys, a play sign on the wall and a large teddy bear in a chair

Humans socialize and come to understand their world through exploration and experience. This is most often done through play. Play therapy takes this understanding and uses it to move through and work with the challenges that you and your child are facing.

As a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor, Megan views and experiences play as an essential tenant to regulation, connection and safety. Our team specializes in working with children, adolescents and their families in helping them express thoughts and feelings, enhance communication, and develop life skills to improve their mood, behavior, relationships and self esteem.

Using different play therapy and expressive techniques such as sandtray, puppetry, painting, drawing, storytelling, and collaging all through the lens of relational neurobiology, we can gain an understanding of your unique child and their inner and outer world. We do not work in isolation with your child. We see working with you, the parent/caregiver within the family system, to help you better understand your child and his/her/their unique struggles and needs, and find solutions that work for your whole family, as a vital part of the therapeutic process.

A different view of the same play room with a warm woven rug, furry bean back and plush toys

“Enter into children’s play and you will find a place where their minds, hearts, and souls meet.”

-Virginia Axline