Welcome to Castlemaine Play Therapy
Why Castlemaine Play Therapy
Castlemaine Play Therapy is a specialist therapeutic service for children, young people, adults, and families.
A range of creative therapeutic services are offered to promote healthy development, emotional growth and the wellbeing of people and families across Castlemaine and surrounding districts.
“Toys are children’s words and play is their language”
Garry Landreth (Author & Play therapist)
Our purpose
To provide a respectful, creative, and supportive therapeutic environment for children, young people, adults and families to heal, grow emotionally strong and build inner resilience.
Therapeutic services include:
and a suite of services under ‘Authentic Moves’ that incorporate movement and somatics to connect body and mind and enable a deepening understanding of your authentic self. These include:
“Enter into children’s play and you will find the place where their minds, hearts and souls meet”
Virginia Axline (1969 – Play therapy pioneer)
Play Therapy
Counselling
Authentic Moves
Dance-movement therapy
Dance has been fundamental to human life and culture since the time of our earliest ancestors. It is a vital form of self-expression and offers a medium of communication that does not rely on words alone.
When dancing, clients can explore thoughts and feelings in new ways as well as thoughtfully visualising desired future pathways. This therapeutic approach draws upon the elements of dance, movement systems, counselling and creativity to support emotional growth and enhanced wellbeing.
Yoga therapy
Yoga therapy at Castlemaine Play therapy is a self-empowering process to enhance their feelings of health and wellbeing.
This mindfulness based therapeutic service is undertaken within a warm, client-centred and supportive therapeutic relationship. The principles of yoga are used to explore client needs then a range of simple yoga practices that may include postures, breathing and mudras are defined to meet individual requirements.
Professional supervision
Professional supervision offers an opportunity for counsellors, therapists and educators to engage in 1:1 or small group sessions to reflect upon their professional practice.
This process provides an emotionally safe, reflective space for professionals to examine their own clinical work. It aims to enhance personal and professional growth, increase capability, and improve confidence.
