Helena Fitzgerald Accredited Play Therapist Welcomes You
Play Therapy
The key to your child's inner world.
Helena Fitzgerald Accredited Play Therapist
Welcome to my website, I hope you find it helpful.
Parenting is hard work and when there are extra struggles it can make it even more difficult. Sometimes our children struggle for lots of different reasons. I am here to help guide and support you along this unique and special journey with your child.
Play is the child's natural medium to learn, communicate and explore their worlds.
"Birds fly, Fish swim, Children play" (G.Landreth)
Helena Fitzgerald Play Therapist
Dunhill Village
Waterford City/County
https://helenafitzgeraldplaytherapist.com
085 7798288
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation”
Plato
Child and Family Services
With you every step of the way
Play Therapy - providing Non-directive, child-centered approach in enabling your child to explore and express their thoughts and feelings through play.
Parenting Support - sharing insights and tools to support you as a parent in responding effectively to your child's needs.
Play Therapy is a useful intervention as it facilitates children in making sense of the world, reaching their potential & developing resilience & emotional intelligence.
Service
Here For You
Any child can benefit from Play Therapy. It promotes self-confidence, problem-solving skills, self-esteem and most importantly, happiness in the child.
Play Therapy is suitable for children as young as 2 to 3 years old with no upper age limit.
Possible referral issues include:
Emotional/behaviour issues
Communication difficulties/autism
Delayed language/play development
Bereavement or loss
Parental Separation
Trauma
Abuse/neglect
Anxiety
Bullying
Low self-esteem
Family disruptions
Play Therapy
Recovery from difficult life experiences/events can be facilitated by a Play Therapist
If you’re looking for quality Play Therapy sessions with an Accredited Play Therapist that really cares, then you’ve come to the right place. I have a strong ability to tune into the unique needs of each child as they present themselves. Play Therapy is relationship based, the power of the Therapy comes from the strength of the relationship between Play Therapist and child.
Play Therapy
Here For You
As a very experienced and highly qualified Play Therapist, I endeavour to facilitate and enhance positive parent/child relationships as well as providing the child with their own safe space to express and explore their inner world, in so doing freeing the child to relate to others in a more fruitful way, enabling them to reach their full potential. My work includes supporting and empowering you as a parent in your role in supporting your child's emotional needs, believing that parents are the most effective agents of change in their child's growth.
Accredited Member of IAPTP
Creative Arts Supervisor
Integrated Sand Tray Therapist
085 7798288
A Bit About Play Therapy
Sometimes children may experience difficulties and behave in ways that can cause disruption to their lives and the lives of those around them. Play Therapy provides the child with the opportunity to "play out" their thoughts, feelings and struggles just as in certain adult therapy, an individual talks out their difficulties.
Helena Fitzgerald, Accredited Play Therapist
Accredited Member IAPTP
Chapel Lane, Dunhill Co Waterford
0857798288
