Play Therapy

Chronic Pain/Illness Focused Children’s Therapy

Typically Best For Children ages 4-12

Chronic Hope Counseling’s play therapy room in Cary, NC

We recognize that sitting down and doing traditional “talk therapy” with your children is not the most effective way to get them to open up, start processing and healing. Using play as therapy for children is the equivalent of talk therapy for adults! Children’s language is play, which is a beautiful thing. That’s why we have a playroom packed with all sorts of toys, arts supplies, dress up corner and something for everything kid to enjoy.

Sand tray therapy is a fun and effective technique to help children process their lives and emotions in a creative and fun way. Sand tray therapy is a combination of play therapy and art therapy. Using miniatures and a tray of sand.

Chronic Hope made sure to collect every miniature we could find relating to people with disabilities, doctors, nurses, hospitals and mobility devices to help your child process their unique emotions, traumas and life events related to their chronic conditions.

During sand tray therapy clients create worlds that represent their internal struggles and conflicts. This allows them to safely reveal the content of their world, externalizing the experience with chronic pain and treatment onto the miniatures.