Counselling Services

What is Play Therapy?
Children often find it difficult to express themselves verbally and so traditional talking therapies can be difficult for them. Play is a child’s natural way of expressing themselves. Play therapy is a therapeutic method of Psychotherapy for children aged 3 and upwards that explores a child’s natural means of expression to help them cope in their world.

It is a clinical therapy aimed at supporting mental health needs and development difficulties of all young children & adolescents and adults.
Play enables the therapist and child to develop a trusted relationship which is consistent with helping a person gain mastery over a situation or trauma they have experienced.

What is Adolescent Therapy?
Adolescence can be a quite demanding period of life, where changes take place socially, physically, and mentally. It is a period of development where a natural detachment from parents and family can occur, and where peers assume a more significant role. Despite being a period of change, opportunity, dreams and achievements, it can also be a period for self-doubt, insecurity and isolation. This, in some instances, can manifest itself in anxiety, stress, self-harm and suicide ideation. The aim of therapy is to provide support and help to the adolescent and, therefore, to their family, by identifying the difficulties that are being experienced, the causes behind it and by providing the means to resolve it.

Trim FRC offers 10 sessions of play/adolescent therapy (including two sessions with parents/guardians). To apply for this service an application/consent form must be completed and returned to Trim FRC. Our counselling co-ordinator will then work on processing the application and matching your child with a therapist. All information (including pricing) is included in the application/consent form, which can be obtained by emailing counselling@trimfrc.ie.