Unlocking the Power of Play Therapy for Child Well-being

What is Play Therapy and How Can it Help Children and Families?

Discover how play serves as a vital language for children, aiding in cognitive, social, and emotional development. Explore the therapeutic potential of play to help children navigate life's challenges, from typical development to trauma.

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About This Session

Play is a child’s natural language.

It is an easy form of communication for children and helps them process and learn. This works on a cognitive, social, spiritual, physical, and emotional level. When it comes to living life, children do it all in play. For decades, play has been harnessed therapeutically to support children experiencing stressful life events, from normal development to traumatic experiences. Play therapy helps children process stressors, regulate emotions and behaviors, problem solve, create connections, increase resilience, and learn social skills. It is a powerful tool. Adults in supportive roles can learn to engage children in play that increases connection and understanding, resolves stress and trauma responses, builds stronger bonds, and reduces the long-term negative impact of adverse childhood experiences. In this session, learn what play therapy is and how it can help your child.

"This course was very helpful in learning how a child's natural ability to play can give adults a way to help them through difficult things happening in their lives."

- 2023 Lost Sparrows Trauma Conference Attendee

About Your Instructor

Lyndsay is the owner and therapist at Linden Tree Counseling and Consulting, a practice in Warsaw, Indiana offering expressive and somatic therapies. In her 12 years of experience supporting the mental health and relational wellbeing of individuals, families, and children, Lyndsay continually witnesses the power of therapeutic play and loving presence to move through pain, integrate trauma response, and repair attachment wounds. As the daughter of a parent born into an orphanage and raised in foster care, Lyndsay knows personally the impact of unresolved generational trauma. From this experience and a journey of restoration, grew her passion to connect parents and children in healing relationships and to support adults in repairing childhood wounds. As knowledge is a powerful resource, speaking and teaching on the topics of play therapy, emotions, and trauma are important parts of her service to her local community.