My 5 favourite books to use in playtherapy

The Gruffalo is an excellent book to use in playtherapy

Playtherapy comes in many forms and at times I’ve found that nothing can really bring a message home to kids the way a good story book can.  I often think of the books below as my old, reliable friends. They have never failed me and I plan to still use them a lot in the […]

School readiness: The importance of emotional maturity

School readiness depends as much on emotional maturity as it does on scholastic ability. In order to be deemed cognitively school ready, children need to achieve a test age of 6  years 3 months on school readiness assessments.  Yet, I have assessed many children who have scored much higher than this and still recommended that […]