Understanding Play Therapy Interventions with Children

This workshop will cover:
- Attachment and trauma theory
- Adverse Childhood Experiences
- How play therapy can help children promote recovery
- Play and creative interventions for emotional awareness and regulation
- Using directive and non-directive play therapy

Learning Objectives:
- Gain an understanding of attachment theory and childhood adversity in a developmental and relational context
- Describe the principles and benefits of play therapy
- Introduce directive and non-directive play therapy tools and interventions
- Attain strategies and skills to promote recovery and resiliency

Spaces are limited. Contact us today to make a pencil booking if you are seeking funding approval.

This is a beginners to intermediate level workshop suitable for educators, health care and mental health professionals (psychologists & psychiatrists), counsellors, social workers and other professionals wanting to gain increased knowledge and skills in helping children and youth.

It is for anyone who works with supporting families and young people who have experienced trauma or difficult life changes.

Poornima Ranchhod is a qualified and experienced Play Therapist. She is the Founder of Play Sense and is currently working in private practice. Poornima works with organisations such as Oranga Tamariki, and is a school-based play therapist. Over her career, she has spent many years working with children, young people with complex psychological issues (e.g. depression, anxiety, attachment disorders, family problems) and difficult life experiences (e.g. family stress, divorce, bereavement, family and sexual violence).

Poornima is trained in child development, attachment (the bonding process) and using and understanding play as a child’s natural form of expression and communication. Her specialties include working with children who are Neurodiverse. In the UK she has worked and offered therapy for various intellectual disability services, such as the NHS (National Health Service).

In addition, Poornima holds a BSC (Hons) in Psychology and Postgraduate Diploma in Play Therapy by the British Association of Play Therapy (BAPT). She is a graduate member of the British Psychological Society, full member of British Association of Play Therapy and an affiliate member of the New Zealand Association of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapists.