Child Therapist
You only need to take a moment to reflect on how life was for you as a child… to realise that children are as deeply affected by the events and experiences of their lives as adults are!
As a child therapist I understand how important it is that children are given the opportunity to make sense of themselves and the world around them in a way that is appropriate for their age and development.
Equally important is that the inner ‘knowing soul’ of the child is recognised, honoured and nurtured.
These New Millenium children are incarnating at a time of fast-paced change on our planet. They are more ‘awake’ and spiritually aware than was evident in previous generations BUT they still need our loving presence and guidance, protection and assistance to enable them to retain and expand their special gifts and abilities.
My Approach as a Child Therapist
In the instance where there are child behavioural issues, I often find that my conscious parenting sessions with parents will create the necessary change without need to bring the child in to see me.
Where there is a definite emotional trauma or health issue that needs resolving, I utilise creative, age appropriate, healing therapies that encourage freedom of self expression.
Techniques I use may include counselling, conscious breath and voice / sound healing, drawing, colour consciousness, play acting and movement that empowers the child to:
- release physical and emotional pain, anxiety and stress
- resolve traumatic memory
- reclaim their own personal space and sense of feeling safe
- learn self soothing techniques to restore wellbeing
- develop courage and confidence to accept and love themselves
COLOUR CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED
Children LOVE colour and colour is the language of our soul.
When drawing, children’s expressive use of the colours they choose, speak about what is going on for them on the inside, in a way that they may not, as yet, be able to articulate in words.
In an age appropriate way, I will explore and unfold the colour story of your child’s drawing with them to bring focus to the core issues that may be concerning them.
Then together we will RE-imagine and enact the positive solution, ‘bringing to life’ a constructive way to move forward that restores their peace, happiness and self confidence.
What Clients Say…
The mother of a seven year old boy experiencing bed wetting and nightmares
An 11 year old girl who presented with chronic back pain, poor bladder control and sibling conflict…
Session 1 – Introductory Sound Bath
It was nice and peaceful. Certain tones vibrated like a flute. I felt most of the sounds in the area of the lower abdomen, some up and down my spine, and some in the legs and a little all over. My pain level is now 2.5 out of 10. It was 4 when we began. I want to return for some more.
Session 2 – Sound Healing for Headache and Lower Back Pain
“I had pins and needles” tingling up the spine as you worked which has now faded. I also felt tingling in the right side of the head when you were working there. I saw a “blue haze” in my spine and when you were making the baby sounds I saw “a woman making funny sounds to a baby”. My pain level has gone from 3.5 to 2.
I noticed I had no feeling in my lower spine. Sounding into each vertebra there, I was surprised by the different sounds that emerged from me. In the sounds I could hear that some vertebrae held pain and others didn’t. After we finished, lying still I noticed pulsing in my wrists, temples and lower spine.
A high school student transitioning to tertiary education
SARA