child CENTRED family therapy
"YOU CAnnot REASON YOUR WAY TO LOVE BUT YOU CAN LOVE YOUR WAY TO REASON" (ANONYMOUS)
You will know your children for longer as adults than as children and childhood is over in a blink. Yet how we spend our time with our children and the people we place them with will determine the quality of that relationship and their future relationships.
When your child is born all you want for them is a golden childhood with soft places to fall. No-one at their child's birth is looking forward to the day their child enters therapy, is expelled from school, has difficulty making friends; or that we or someone we've trusted them with, hurts them.
When these events occur for you as a parent you are quite often left angry, in denial or so distressed you don't know which way to turn. This is grief - love with no place to go.
I am inviting you to let crossing the divides be you and your children's soft place to fall.
When your child is born all you want for them is a golden childhood with soft places to fall. No-one at their child's birth is looking forward to the day their child enters therapy, is expelled from school, has difficulty making friends; or that we or someone we've trusted them with, hurts them.
When these events occur for you as a parent you are quite often left angry, in denial or so distressed you don't know which way to turn. This is grief - love with no place to go.
I am inviting you to let crossing the divides be you and your children's soft place to fall.
At Crossing the Divides
Child & Family Therapy
Healing happens together
My approach integrates Sesame-informed dramatherapy and Synergetic Play Therapy, knitted together with the principals of Dyadic psychotherapy which are playfulness, acceptance, curiosity and empathy and underpinned by Somatic Experiencing.
Why family therapy?
Children do not live in a bubble, and healing does not happen in isolation. That is why my approach uses Synergetic Play Therapy (SPT)—a neuroscience-backed model where parents are a vital part of the process.
Instead of just watching your child play, I actively use nervous system regulation to help them process trauma, anxiety, and intense emotions in real time. Because you are the most important person in your child's world, we will work as a team. I teach you the exact co-regulation tools used in the playroom so you can confidently navigate meltdowns and support your child's healing at home.
What we achieve together:
Breaking it down
Synergetic play therapy
Synergetic play therapy differs from regular play therapy by being a specific, highly regulated, neuroscience-backed model of play therapy. While traditional Play Therapy is a broad, non-directive approach allowing children to process emotions at their own pace, SPT actively trains the therapist to use their own nervous system to "co-regulate" and guide the child's emotional healing. So as opposed to focusing on insight or explanation, the work centres on safety, co-regulation, play, and relationship. As your child's
therapist I do not just watch your child play or play along. I am an intrical part of the process. I am your child's external regulator just as the parent is the regulator from birth. In our play I attune to their essence, the core emotions and feelings they are experiencing and by giving them voice and curiosity I prepare the ground for new attachment and regulation templates which are needed for the healing process.
Dramatherapy (sesame)
Sesame dramatherapy is an expressive psychotherapy that uses myth, fairy tales, movement, and touch to help clients explore buried emotions and personal challenges indirectly. Based on the theories of Carl Jung, it provides a safe, non-confrontational space where healing occurs through creative imagination and play rather than traditional talking
Somatic experiencing (SE).
SE is a bottom-up, body-based approach to working with trauma. SE with kids uses playful, body-based activities to help them release stress, process trauma, and regulate their nervous systems. Because children often lack the words to express complex emotions, SE focuses on physical sensations, movement, and imagery to safely move out of fight, flight, or freeze states. It is often the key that unlocks the frozen trauma from the child's body, often through the therapists intention more than by actual touch.
Results of this synthesis
Adults who have participated in my programs have described this integrated work as quietly radical — as a doorway they stepped through to feel held, contained, seen, heard, and felt.
Feeling seen, heard, and felt is foundational to human development and healing.
And that matters, because feeling seen, heard, and felt is not a luxury.
It is what we need to be fully human — and it is how healing begins.
Child & Family Therapy
Healing happens together
My approach integrates Sesame-informed dramatherapy and Synergetic Play Therapy, knitted together with the principals of Dyadic psychotherapy which are playfulness, acceptance, curiosity and empathy and underpinned by Somatic Experiencing.
Why family therapy?
Children do not live in a bubble, and healing does not happen in isolation. That is why my approach uses Synergetic Play Therapy (SPT)—a neuroscience-backed model where parents are a vital part of the process.
Instead of just watching your child play, I actively use nervous system regulation to help them process trauma, anxiety, and intense emotions in real time. Because you are the most important person in your child's world, we will work as a team. I teach you the exact co-regulation tools used in the playroom so you can confidently navigate meltdowns and support your child's healing at home.
What we achieve together:
- Regulated Nervous Systems: Fewer meltdowns and less daily household stress.
- Stronger Connections: Deeper bonds and better communication across the whole family.
Breaking it down
Synergetic play therapy
Synergetic play therapy differs from regular play therapy by being a specific, highly regulated, neuroscience-backed model of play therapy. While traditional Play Therapy is a broad, non-directive approach allowing children to process emotions at their own pace, SPT actively trains the therapist to use their own nervous system to "co-regulate" and guide the child's emotional healing. So as opposed to focusing on insight or explanation, the work centres on safety, co-regulation, play, and relationship. As your child's
therapist I do not just watch your child play or play along. I am an intrical part of the process. I am your child's external regulator just as the parent is the regulator from birth. In our play I attune to their essence, the core emotions and feelings they are experiencing and by giving them voice and curiosity I prepare the ground for new attachment and regulation templates which are needed for the healing process.
Dramatherapy (sesame)
Sesame dramatherapy is an expressive psychotherapy that uses myth, fairy tales, movement, and touch to help clients explore buried emotions and personal challenges indirectly. Based on the theories of Carl Jung, it provides a safe, non-confrontational space where healing occurs through creative imagination and play rather than traditional talking
Somatic experiencing (SE).
SE is a bottom-up, body-based approach to working with trauma. SE with kids uses playful, body-based activities to help them release stress, process trauma, and regulate their nervous systems. Because children often lack the words to express complex emotions, SE focuses on physical sensations, movement, and imagery to safely move out of fight, flight, or freeze states. It is often the key that unlocks the frozen trauma from the child's body, often through the therapists intention more than by actual touch.
Results of this synthesis
Adults who have participated in my programs have described this integrated work as quietly radical — as a doorway they stepped through to feel held, contained, seen, heard, and felt.
Feeling seen, heard, and felt is foundational to human development and healing.
And that matters, because feeling seen, heard, and felt is not a luxury.
It is what we need to be fully human — and it is how healing begins.
If you are ready to make the first steps to healing your family message or email me to set up a discovery call.
WhatsApp +61 (0422654722
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WhatsApp +61 (0422654722
[email protected]
