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The Play Therapy Center.  We believe in helping children, teens, adults, couples, and families work through those issues that affect their everyday lives.


FairView Counseling and
The Play Therapy Center
610-396-9091

1255 Perkiomen Avenue
Reading, PA 19602
Fax: 610-396-9092
www.fairviewcounseling.org


 

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There is little that gives children
greater pleasure than when a
grown-up lets himself down to
their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as
an equal. – Sigmund Freud

Services


Attachment
Parent-child relationship problems
Family system issues
Trauma
Abuse
Depression
Anxiety
Grief
Relationships
Cycle of life issues
Separation
Divorce
Stress

We offer the following treatments, utilizing our staff of
trained, licensed therapists:

Cognitive therapy seeks to identify and change distorted or unrealistic ways of thinking

Contextual family therapy accentuates the need for ethical principles such as trust, loyalty and mutual support to be an integral part of the therapeutic process.

Play therapy is generally used with children ages 3 to 10. Play provides a way for children to express their experiences and feelings through a natural, self healing process.

Play therapy in a family therapy context

Filial therapy utilizes the parent as the child's primary therapeutic agent. Parents are "trained" to conduct therapy sessions with their child.

Theraplay is an approach that uses elements of play therapy and that has intention of helping parents and children build better attachment relationships through attachment-based play.

Gestalt therapy is a holistic therapy that incorporates key concepts of: present-centered awareness; profound respect; emphasis on experience; creative experiment and discovery.

EMDR [Eye Movement Desentization and Reprocessing] is a remarkable innovative therapy that addresses trauma, as well as other issues, through the pairing of cognitions and neurophysiologic methods.

Sand Tray therapy is a wonderfully creative therapeutic way to bring together our inner and outer worlds, to make the unconscious conscious.  Clients of any age, under the guidance of an experienced therapist, utilize containers of sand approximately 2 x 2 ½ feet by 4 inches deep and pick from hundreds of figurines representing all forms of life and matter.  The client places the figurines in the sand, creating  images [worlds].


For web site information about these therapies, or for links to specific organizations mentioned, please reference our Resources page.

(Definitions taken from en.wikipedia.org)
 


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