Offering children a safe, creative space to navigate complex emotions that are often difficult to put into words. Evidence-based therapeutic care.
Play and Creative Arts Therapy
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Every child deserves to feel safe, understood, and valued, even during life's most difficult moments. As they grow, children experience emotions they may not yet have the words or confidence to explain. Worry, frustration, sadness, or fear can show up in many different ways—through quiet withdrawal, emotional outbursts, or changes in behaviour. Behind every reaction is a child seeking connection, understanding, and support.
Parents and caregivers face their own challenges as they guide children through an increasingly complex world. Balancing love with healthy boundaries, nurturing meaningful relationships in the presence of constant digital distractions, and helping children develop resilience, empathy, and self-confidence can feel overwhelming at times.
Together, we can help your child understand their emotions, communicate their needs, and build healthy relationships. By creating a space where every voice is heard and every feeling is acknowledged, we guide both you and your child toward growing together with confidence, compassion, and hope.
What is Play Therapy?
Children may be struggling with anxiety, loss, trauma, family changes, low self-esteem, emotional regulation, behavioural difficulties, or experiences that feel confusing or overwhelming. Through the therapeutic relationship and the creative process of play, they are able to make sense of these experiences in a way that feels safe and manageable.
Rather than asking children to talk before they are ready, Play Therapy meets them where they are. As children play, the therapist carefully observes, reflects and supports their emotional expression, helping them gradually develop greater self-awareness, resilience, confidence and healthier ways of coping.
Play Therapy can support children experiencing mild, moderate or more complex emotional and psychological difficulties, helping them better understand themselves, strengthen relationships and reach their full potential.
Every child’s journey is unique. The aim is not simply to change behaviour, but to understand what lies beneath it, supporting lasting emotional wellbeing and healthy development.
At Daymoon Play Therapy, children are offered a safe, accepting and confidential space where they can explore their emotions at their own pace. Sessions are child-led and non-directive, allowing each child to choose how they express themselves through a wide range of creative resources such as toys, art materials, sand, stories, music and imaginative play.
To learn more about Play Therapy and the professional standards followed by qualified Play Therapists, please visit the Play Therapy UK (PTUK) website
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Adoption Support Counselling
Individual Play Therapy
Group Play Therapy
Group play therapy sessions bring children together in a safe and supportive environment where they can learn, grow, and connect through play. Guided by the therapist, children develop social skills, build confidence, improve communication, and practice healthy ways of expressing emotions while interacting with their peers.
These sessions provide a safe, supportive space where children can express their thoughts, feelings, and experiences through play. At their own pace, they are encouraged to explore emotions, build confidence, develop coping skills, and strengthen emotional well-being with the guidance of a trained play therapist
Adoption support counselling provides a compassionate and supportive space for children, adoptive parents, and families to explore the emotions and challenges that can arise throughout the adoption journey. Sessions help strengthen relationships, build understanding, and support emotional well-being at every stage.
I am a certified play therapist dedicated to supporting children and families. With patience, empathy, and respect for each child's unique pace, I provide a safe and nurturing space where emotions, experiences, and challenges can be expressed naturally. I help children build confidence, strengthen emotional resilience, and develop healthy ways of understanding themselves and the world around them.
Who am I?
Nathalie is on the Register of Play and Creative Arts Therapists as Nathalie Lordereau-Lelong, the register has been accredited by the Professional Standards Authority and can be found by clicking here.
As a PTUK registrant Nathalie adheres to the PTUK Ethical Framework which can be found by clicking here.
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