The Euphelia Clinic

Play Therapy

What is Clinical Play Therapy?

Clinical Play Therapy at the Euphelia Clinic helps children and their families work through emotional and behavioural issues that are negatively impacting a child's development. Clinical Play Therapy engages children and their families in cycles of positive behavioural changes, supporting self-esteem, emotional intelligence and positive learning dispositions (NICHED 2002).

Clinical Play Therapy: information leaflet - please click on the link to download this document if you would like more information regarding Clinical Play Therapy at The Euphelia Clinic. There is also an information booklet to share with pupils who attend our sessions - please click here for this document.

Clinical Play Therapy is scheduled for 12 session cycles.Clients attend weekly or fortnightly Clinical Play Therapy sessions, and parents/carers attend regular key themes meetings to support their child and discuss their needs.

To access our confidential private-practice Clinical Play Therapy service for your child and family.

Please contact us, and one of our team of Clinical Play Therapists will contact you to arrange an initial meeting in a locally-based setting, to discuss your child's and family's needs. Your Clinical Play Therapist will support you and your family, working in partnership to help the individual needs of each family, and offering specialist help and expertise.
Email: APTcoordinator@euphelia.com

Statutory Service Provision for Children in Need

Our professional services enable the statutory duties placed upon local authorities by the Children Act 1989 to be fulfilled, as outlined in schedule 2(8a).These are the duties to make provision for advice, counselling and guidance to be available with respect to children in need within their area while they are living with their families. Direct payments through the local authority may be used to access our service provision.

Parents guide to direct payments - please click here to download this document

The Retreat ~ Family Play Therapy Retreat

A five day retreat set in luxury five-star accommodation, offering help, expertise and support for children and families to draw upon. Families are supported in working through issues and challenges by our team of experts, in a supportive, nurturing, strengths-based framework.

An additional range of fun and enjoyable activities are planned for families to enjoy together, from adventure-based through to creative and art-based. A wide array of choice is available for these activities. A few examples include: hot air balloon flying, water rapids and canooing, dolphin watch rafting, sea-sailing, night-time fire festivities, archery, go-karting, forest walking, nature trekking, owl watching, falconry, pottery and kiln artwork, silk printing, chinese kite flying, and zen stone temple building.

To arrange your Family Retreat, please drop us an email to The Retreat(retreat@euphelia.com). One of our specialists will contact you to discuss your individual family needs, and to arrange your Retreat date. Each Family Retreat is designed and planned by our experts to meet your family's unique needs.

The Euphelia Clinic - Clinical Play Therapists

The Euphelia Clinic has a Code of Professional Ethics, an Ethical Committee and adheres to Clinical Governance practice procedures and standards.

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child informs professional practice at the Euphelia Clinic.

All clients attend regular weekly or fortnightly 12 session cycles of Clinical Play Therapy at The Euphelia Clinic. Each client's family also attend regular meetings to understand and help support their child whilst she/he is undergoing Clinical Play Therapy. Clinical Play Therapists work within the Common Assessment Framework, and will link with other related professionals to support each child's unique needs. For example: a Clinical Play Therapist may liaise with school to further support learning and development needs; a Clinical Play Therapist may visit paediatric healthcare settings to support their clients within the hospitalisation process and related emotional issues.

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