Creative Arts Therapy for Children

ENCOURAGE COMMUNICATION

The field of child development has advanced since I first studied the subject in the 1980’s at Cornell University. We now understand much more about the developing brain, what is necessary for children to thrive, and how to support them throughout the crucial years of childhood.

Even when parents and caregivers do our best to protect and nurture our children, we cannot always control how life events will impact them. Children understand things in their own way and are constantly changing their perceptions, learning from their experience of the world.

When children are having a hard time, they need to have an opportunity to be heard and understood. Since play is the language of childhood, we need to incorporate creative ways of helping children tell their stories, and then to listen with patience and encouragement .