Figure play therapy for children

Play, create, express yourself, reduce stress, develop potential  

Figure play therapy is a holistic, resource-promoting, psychotherapeutically oriented form of play and art therapy.

It helps children (recommended from the age of 4) to express emotional stress through creative and playful means and to reduce and process internal and external conflicts. Through play, new solutions and behaviors can be tested without fear and thus playfully integrated into personality development.

Figure play is at the heart of the method. A wide range of different hand puppets, props and stage materials are used to play out self-invented stories in which the child symbolically represents their problems and challenges. I support the process in a gentle and solution-oriented way, with the aim of promoting and strengthening your child's abilities and self-healing powers.

Other activities such as making their own figure, drawing and painting, felting, crafts, sand play and fairy tales support the therapeutic process and enable the child to give shape to their inner images.

Figure play therapy for children is useful for: 

• Emotional stress
• Developmental or behavioral problems
• Family problems such as (separation of parents, sibling rivalries, jealousy)
• States of anxiety
• Wetting the bed
• Sleep disorders
• School problems
• Psychosomatic complaints
• Conspicuous social behavior e.g. aggression
• Grief processing
• Violent experiences
• Trauma

For further information and questions I am at your disposal in a personal conversation.

 

Figure play therapy for adults

Creativity, mindfulness, well-being, quality of life, self-determination, joie de vivre

Figure play therapy is a form of play, expression and art therapy that is based on psychotherapeutic approaches.

The focus of therapy with adults is on modeling one's own figure. By creating a counterpart, inner and outer conflicts, one's own strengths and unconscious parts become visible and can be processed in conversation, through relaxation techniques, fantasy journeys, movements, animating the figure or through play. New solutions for your own challenges and problems can be tried out and integrated in a light-hearted way.

As your guide, I support you in your process in an emphatic, reflective and solution-oriented way. With the aim of recognizing their own development opportunities and skills and using them to their advantage.

According to their needs and wishes, other activities such as painting and drawing, fairy tales, writing stories, felting, clay and sand can support the therapeutic process.

Figure play therapy for adults is helpful for: 

• Psychosomatic symptoms
• Anxiety
• Addiction
• Depression
• Sensory search
• Grief and loss
• chronic pain

For further information and questions, I am available by phone or in a personal conversation.