POWER OF HEALING COUNSELING LLC
SUMMERFIELD, FLORIDA

At Power of Healing Counseling, LLC, we create an environment where people can be themselves, knowing that the therapeutic process is built on trust, hope, and care. We walk along side of our clients on their emotional journeys, going beyond their outward symptoms, to the inward causes... inviting genuine change. The EXPRESSIVE ART room at our office, is strategically set up to assist children to express themselves in a natural environment, and to work through their issues through play. Play therapy is to children what talk therapy is to adults. It is a structured, theoretically based approach to therapy that builds on the normal communicative and learning processes of children (Carmichael, 2006; Landreth, 2002; O'Connor & Schaefer, 1983). The curative powers inherent in play are used in many ways. Our trained Play Therapists utilize play therapy to help children express what is troubling them when they do not have the verbal language to express their thoughts and feelings (Gil, 1991). In play therapy, toys are like the child's and play is the child's language (Landreth, 2002). Play therapy allows trained mental health practitioners who specialize in play therapy, to assess and understand children's play. “A dynamic interpersonal relationship between a child (or person of any age) and a therapist trained in play therapy procedures who provides selected play materials and facilitates the development of a safe relationship for the child (or person of any age) to fully express and explore self (feelings, thoughts, experiences, and behaviors) through play, the child's natural medium of communication, for optimal growth and development.” Often, children have used up their own problem solving tools, and they misbehave, may act out at home, with friends, and at school (Landreth, 2002).. Play therapy is utilized to help children cope with difficult emotions and find solutions to problems (Moustakas, 1997; Reddy, Files-Hall, & Schaefer, 2005). By confronting problems in the clinical Play Therapy setting, children find healthier solutions. Even the most troubling problems can be confronted in play therapy and lasting resolutions can be discovered, rehearsed, mastered and adapted into lifelong strategies (Russ, 2004). © Power Of Healing Counseling LLC © Power Of Healing Counseling LLC