What is Filial Play Therapy?
Filial play therapy is a unique counselling approach where you and your child work together to improve child and family problems. You are taught basic play therapy skills so that you can become involved in the therapeutic process with your child. This empowers you to become the primary support for your child. Filial play therapy has been successfully used with many child and family problems including: • Anxiety and depression • Anger and aggression • Relationship problems • Trauma • Abuse/neglect • Single parenting, step-parenting • High conflict divorce • Adoption/foster care • Family substance abuse • Chronic illness Filial play therapy has been researched a great deal. It has wide applicability with very consistent research results indicating significant improvements in children’s problems and parents’ skills as well as significant decreases in parents’ stress levels.
