Welcome to Seattle Play Therapy! We provide social, emotional and behavioral support to Seattle area families. We work with infants, children, teens, and parents.
To play it out is the most natural self-healing process in childhood.
– Erik Erikson
About Us
We serve infants and toddlers, children, adolescents and parents of all identities and bodies.
We value
Our approach is grounded in neurobiologically informed principles that help increase regulation and relational connection.
Play is the foundation for learning, relationships and emotional processing.
We affirm all races, abilities, cultures, neurotypes, in all bodies. Our therapists operate from an anti-racist, anti-oppressive lens.
We believe
Understanding the underlying needs behind a behavior, allows us to meet those needs in new ways.
Safe relationships – where one feels valued and understood – is the primary indicator of resilience in the face of adverse experiences.
Increasing internal strength will change behaviors from the inside out, which leads to longer term change.
Our Team
Play Therapy
Play Therapy decreases problematic behaviors, while increasing your child's internal strength and belief in themselves. All in the child's natural language of play!
Parent Support
Parent Support & Coaching provides you with tools and strategies for responding to parenting challenges, without seeing your child directly or giving your child a mental health diagnosis.
Adolescents
We provide tweens and teens support for social, emotional and behavioral challenges. We use creative and expressive mediums to allow for alternative means of communication.
We work with children, families and educators to support the social, emotional and behavioral needs of children in school and day care settings so they can be most successful. This includes school observations, support and guidance with IEP meetings.
We run psychoeducational groups for children and parents addressing a variety of ages, and needs. Check out our current offerings, or let us know you are interested in a past group so we know to run it again!
Play therapy gives children a place to be in control, to gain a sense of mastery, and to feel important, while giving the therapist a window into the child’s world.
Child-Centered Documentation
Child-Centered Documentation is a unique approach to documentation that integrates managed care requirements, while staying true to Child-Centered Play Therapy theory.
Continuing Education
Seattle Play Therapy Training Center is an Approved Provider of Continuing Education through the Association for Play Therapy. We provide beginner through advanced trainings in play therapy.
Consultation
Rosie Newman, LMHC, provides consultation to child therapists related to business development, mentorship, case conceptualization, and clinical documentation.