Our Creative Therapies service is to support children and young people aged from 5 up to their 19th birthday and, where appropriate, their families/Carers with their emotional wellbeing and mental health. We have available the following interventions and support that promote self-resilience, and provide strategies that encourage coping and self-management

Bitesize Workshops for Children and Young People

Transitions, Consent & Healthy Relationships, Managing Exams, Managing Stress

Play Therapy

Play therapy is a therapeutic approach that uses play to help children express emotions, resolve conflicts, and develop coping skills in a safe and supportive environment. Play therapy allows the child leads the way and is offered use of play materials such as sand play, arts, games, music, movement activities, role-play, clay and messy play.

Dramatherapy

Dramatherapy is a creative form of psychotherapy. It utilises drama techniques and tools such as: stories, character work, role play, puppetry, mask work, drawing, drama games, etc; all of which help clients to express themselves and work through any issues in a creative way. Working in metaphor through these creative outlets, provides an aesthetic distance between the client and their material, ensuring they work in a safe and contained way.

Art Therapy

Art therapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses creative processes like drawing or painting to help individuals express emotions and improve mental well-being. It allows people to explore their feelings in a non-verbal way, guided by a trained therapist.

Bitesize Workshops for Parents / Carers

Transitions, Consent & Healthy Relationships, Managing Exams, Managing Stress

Dates for live groups and on demand content to be shared shortly.

Funded counselling at Hertfordshire Mind Network

Some children and young people who find it easier to understand and express themselves through talking directly with a trained counsellor, than by using creative art forms, such as play or drama therapies may find counselling more suitable for their needs.

Find out more about Hertfordshire Mind Network’s counselling funded by Hertfordshire’s Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services (Herts CYPMHS) at the link below:

Hertfordshire Mind Network funded counselling webpage

If you’re still unsure, please don’t worry! As part of the assessment process, ourselves and Hertfordshire Mind Network (counselling provider) will consider which type of therapy would be most suitable for a child or young person’s needs.

URGENT HELP

If you are a young person needing emergency help or you feel a young person or adult are in danger of seriously hurting themselves, you can call Single Point of Access (SPA) on 0300 777 0707 or 0800 644 4101. This is a 24/7 service.

National Mental Health you can contact 111 and press option 2.

Text SHOUT on 85258. Trained volunteers will respond to you 24/7. SHOUT is free, confidential and anonymous for anyone in the uk, it won’t appear on your phone bill.

If your life is at imminent risk call the emergency services on 999.

http://www.samaritans.org or call anytime free on 116 123.

Childline: 0800 1111 details. If you require any further information please contact us.

Tell us about yourself and request a call back.