• The centre of our personality or psyche is the 'self'.
• The psyche and self, like our physiological system, can be metaphorically wounded.
• Self healing can take place in a healing environment.
• Psychological healing occurs on many levels - both within and outside our awareness.
• Play and creativity operate on impulses from outside our awareness - the unconscious.

Play Therapy initally developed from the work of the Child Psychotherapists Freud, Lowenfeld and Klein and draws on many different psychological theories. Play Therapy is particularly influenced by the work of Virgina Axline who developed the non directive Play Therapy approach, working with the principles of Rogers Person Centred Approach. As a discipline, Play Therapy has been practised in America for 50 years and in the UK since the 1980s.

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