Shine Play Therapy - Omagh

Shine Play Therapy :

Shine Play Therapy provides many services to children, parents, individuals and professionals to support their mental health and enhance their emotional well-being.

PLAY THERAPY - a form of counselling/psychotherapy for children, adolescents and adults who suffer emotional difficulties, social difficulties, display problematic behaviour, delayed play/language development, are underperforming, bereavement/loss, separated/divorced parents, communication problems, autistic spectrum, withdrawn, abuse trauma, nightmares, bullied/bullies, fostering/adoption, anxiety/stress/phobias, relationship problems, doesn't play, illness/disabled, low self-esteem, truancy, exclusion from school.

Play Therapy can help improve concentration, problem solving and greater self-control, ability to express emotion in appropriate ways, communication skills and emotional literacy, ability to manage anxiety and feelings of sadness, social skills and relationships, self-esteem confidence and self-acceptance, coping mechanisms and resilience, ability to self soothe. In school it can help improve participation in group work, communication with other, listening skills, concentration, reduces exclusions, improves attendance rates, helps meets school objectives. It can also help improve relationships with parents and siblings at home as well as obedience and behaviour. In addition it can benefit the community and society by reducing crime rate and truancy and reduces mental health problems.

LEGO - BASED THERAPY:

Social development programme - for young people with autism spectrum disorders or related social communication difficulties. Young people work together to build Lego® models Helps develop: social skills, turn taking, collaboration, social communication

PARENT SUPPORT AND GUIDANCE: – this service can be on a one-off or regular basis and provides parents with practical advice and support

FILIAL PLAY PARENT COACH/MENTORING:

• Helps improve strained parent/child relationships and attachment difficulties
• Creates a better bond between parent and child
• Helps improve mental and emotional development
• Coaching/mentoring for parents/carers in nurturing skills and how to play non-directively with their children/teen.
• Empowers parents to alleviate their children's mild to moderate social, emotional and behaviour difficulties

PARENT WORKSHOPS: – we provide many workshops that help provide parents with the skills they need to support and bond with their children and feel empowered in doing so.

TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS: - We provide training to professionals who work directly with children and young people.

Self Care: - We provide self-care workshops and programmes to professionals, individuals and parents on a one off or regular basis.

Creative Therapy Groups: -  Creative Therapy for children, adolescents, and adults can provide emotional support for specific groups / topics

Areas covered • Tyrone and Fermanagh and beyond

Method of Access (Referral) • Parents • Youth and community workers • GP • Health Visitor • Hospital • School • Social Worker • Self

Forest School: child-led education in nature which aims to enhance childrens holistic development.