BALLARAT BASED PLAY THERAPY
Building trust, nurturing growth
Attach offers a safe and nurturing environment where children feel supported to start making sense of difficulties and begin to build their best self.
Why Attach Therapy
We believe all children are precious, and with nurture and connection, everyone has capacity to overcome adversities.
We give you certainty
Attach Therapy provide certainty giving you a start date following intake. We prefer not to waitlist you.
We give you clarity
We work systemically meaning we work with parents, educational facilities and other allied health and professionals involved in your child’s life.
We give you access
We are centrally located, just off Sturt St with bus and train access nearby.
We give you professionalism
Our staff are all highly qualified with experience working with trauma and neurodivergence. We stay informed through compulsory professional development.
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Our services
At Attach Therapy we support parents, carers, families, practitioners, organisations and communities, to build capacity to impact change and strengthen self and other.
What to expect
Understanding the process
Intake is an adult only session where a full history of child is taken to determine the best intervention to support the child. At your child’s first session building the therapeutic relationship will be our focus, and we will also be observing your child and collecting information via assessment to assist the direction of the therapeutic intervention.
Play sessions will commence and continue with frequency and length of intervention determined at intake. Following your first session we will have a quick call to let you know how your child went. Sessions consist of 45 min special play time and 15min notes and planning.
Dependent on the frequency and length of the intervention reviews will be booked when scheduling appointments. Reviews can be informal (15-20 minutes via phone- no fee), or formal (a full 50min session at Attach- fee). Attach reserves the right to determine the type of review required to support the child.
After an intervention block, we will meet to make any recommendations which may include but not limited to a continuation of therapy, referral to other supports, planning for a therapeutic ending. If a formal written progress or end of therapy report is required, this will be embedded into the initial quote.
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Call us or complete the online referral form to get interventions started or to learn more about play therapy.
“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing”
— Charles E. Schaefer, Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychology.
