Play therapy is based upon the fact that play is the child’s natural medium of self-expression. It is an opportunity which is given to the child to ‘play out’ his feelings and problems just as, in certain types of adult therapy, an individual ‘talks out’ his difficulties.
Virginia M Axline, Play Therapy
Play has been called ‘children’s work’ and indeed if you ever watch a child at play you...
Online therapy allows the client and therapist to work together without meeting. This may be via instant chat, email or Skype. It has been seen as especially suitable for clients who cannot easily access face-to-face services, perhaps because they are home-bound, work unusual hours, or live in a remote area.
One of the arguments against online therapy has been that much of the richness and depth of...
A family therapist works with several members of the same family to explore and resolve family issues or sometimes to improve communication within the family. There are a number of differences between family and individual therapy. In family therapy, it is the family unit rather than the individuals that are the focus of the therapy process, although each individual’s experience within the family is...
Couple therapy is the process of counseling the parties of a relationship in an effort to recognise and to better manage or reconcile troublesome differences and repeating patterns of distress.
Sarah Gibson
Couple therapy is a relatively new form of therapy, sometimes called couple counseling, relationship therapy or marriage counseling. Prior to the emergence of early marriage counseling in the 1960s,...
Sex therapists work with couples or individuals to explore and resolve sexual difficulties.
Sex therapists are fully qualified therapists who have extra training in helping people who have problems with sex. Sometimes, sex therapy forms part of couple therapy that looks at wider issues within the relationship too.
Many people have a problem with sex at some point in their life. Some people deal with...
Psychotherapy is a form of talking therapy that supports clients in exploring emotional problems and mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Psychotherapy is sometimes known as counseling. Athough traditionally there were a number of differences between psychotherapy and counseling – notably that...