Play Therapy

Child Centered Play Therapy

klimt mother child gddwWhen to seek therapy for your child?

  • Are you and your child are having too many power struggles
  • Do you feel that your child’s emotional life is running your life and your household?
  • Does your child seem more sensitive than other children?
  • Do you worry about your child’s social and emotional wellbeing?
  • Has your child faced a recent loss, divorce, or traumatic event?
  • Do you and your child need support to find your way back to positive communication and connection?

How Child-Centered Play Therapy can Help

Dr. Schwartz understands the unique challenges parents can face in raising sensitive children.  She specializes in working with children with sensory processing disorders, speech/language delays, anxiety, challenging behaviors, trauma exposure, and emotional problems.

When a child has faced a loss or struggles against the demands of their environments children may need help making sense of their feelings and behaviors.

  • Play is the primary form of communication in the young child and is the language that allows children to create a symbolic and metaphoric understanding of reality.
  • Play therapy assists children to express themselves, access inner resiliency, and resolve trauma.
  • The child-centered play therapy session offers a safe exploration of big emotions such as anger, fear, and sadness.
  • Parent-child or filial play therapy gives parents the tools to bring the benefits of play therapy home.

Read more about how play therapy works

About Dr. Schwartz

  • Dr. Arielle Schwartz has been a child-centered play therapy and parent-child (filial) play therapy practitioner since 2007.
  • Dr. Schwartz’s passion is in working with parents and children together, facilitating an environment that allows both to feel connected, attuned, attached, and understood.

Photo by Jes Kimak Photography

About Dr. Arielle Schwartz

Arielle Schwartz, PhD, is a psychologist, internationally sought-out teacher, yoga instructor, and leading voice in the healing of PTSD and complex trauma. She is the author of seven books, including The Complex PTSD Workbook, EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology, and The Post Traumatic Growth Guidebook.

Dr. Schwartz is an accomplished teacher who guides therapists in the application of EMDR, somatic psychology, parts work therapy, and mindfulness-based interventions for the treatment of trauma and complex PTSD. She guides you through a personal journey of healing in her Sounds True audio program, Trauma Recovery.

She has a depth of understanding, passion, kindness, compassion, joy, and a succinct way of speaking about very complex topics. She is the founder of the Center for Resilience Informed Therapy® in Boulder, Colorado where she maintains a private practice providing psychotherapy, supervision, and consultation. Dr. Schwartz believes that that the journey of trauma recovery is an awakening of the spiritual heart.

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