Dr Sally offers a counselling approach that engages the body and mind as well as allowing for personal creativity and use of the senses.
The aim is to enable a deeper understanding of self and to explore thoughts, feelings, and challenges in an emotionally safe and therapeutic environment.
Castlemaine Play Therapy offers a creative and supportive counselling service to:
- Young people
- Adults
- professionals who are working the therapeutic field and require their own inner work to support effective practice.
Carer & parent support sessions
Strong, meaningful and trusting relationships between carers/parents and children are important for supporting a child’s optimal development. At times parenting can be challenging and in these moments’ parents and carers, can benefit from being able to reflect upon and talk through their individual situation, the challenges their child is experiencing and make sense of their own and their children’s complex emotions and experiences.
Dr Sally offers specialist counselling support to carers/parents, with an aim to foster and resource strong family relationships, grow healthy parent/child attachments and to offer strategies for carers/parents to assist the children they love and care for to grow emotionally healthy and strong.
Dr Sally draws upon her wealth of experience, her training in dyadic developmental psychotherapy (DDP) and Dr Dan Hughes parenting with PACE model , as well as her qualifications in therapeutic skills, education, complex developmental trauma and play therapy to offer specialist carer/parenting support including:
- Playful strategies to foster carer/parent- child attachment and connection.
- Carer/parent only de-briefing sessions.
- Family grief and loss counselling.
- Psychoeducation in the neurobiology of children’s stress, anxiety, trauma.
- Strategies carers/parents can use to support children to emotionally regulate, build understanding of their emotions and foster increased relational connection.
- Risk and safety planning when children are engaging in or have experienced harmful behaviours.
- Parent/child dyadic counselling sessions to strengthen attachment bonds, support positive relational connections and make sense of challenging experiences and emotions.
