What is Play Therapy
What is Play Therapy? This is one of the most common questions that gets asked at the HeadFirst office: What exactly is play therapy? Is it just someone playing with my kid? The short answer- no. It’s much more than that. Play therapy is the most developmentally appropriate way of providing therapeutic services with children. Play therapists believe that play is the child’s language, and the toys are their words. Young children primarily think and process information symbolic