SERVICES

•	Crisis Respite Nursery
•	Parenting Class
•	Adult Therapy
•	Child Therapy
•	School Presentations

 

At the Family Support and Treatment Center, we provide the opportunity for your child to engage with their life experience, including trauma, at their own developmental level through the symbolic language of play.  This is accomplished through a process known as Play Therapy.  Play is the natural medium of expression for children.  In most cases play allows children to communicate what they have difficulty saying with words because of their developmental level. 

 

The special nature of the play room and its safe environment will allow your child to address whatever is concerning to them.  Children have an intuitive drive for healing and your child will address their concerns on their own level by using what is available to them in the play room.  When children can play out how they feel or what they have experienced to someone who understands, they feel better because those feelings are being released and acknowledged.  Generally the therapist will not coach, direct or quiz your child in their play.  Your child directs the play and will be free to choose whatever they want to do in the play room.  This is because we believe that your child knows intuitively
what they need to do to heal.