Sandra Webb Counselling

Sandra Webb is a certified Play Therapy Associate (1998). Play is the language of children. Children replay the problematic themes in their lives until they gain resolution and mastery.

Play therapy is beneficial to a child who is experiencing difficulties in the home, school or community. It is a therapeutic approach for human service professionals as stated by Virginia Axline, "provides an opportunity for the child to 'play out' his or her feelings and problems just as, in certain adult therapy, an individul 'talks out' his or her difficulties". A child's self-understanding is one of the goals in this approach. (from the Canadian Play Therapy website at www.cacpt.com )

Play therapy has a base from the therapies listed below.

PSYCHOANALYTIC PLAY THERAPY
Anna Freud (1928); Melanie Klien (1932)

RELEASE PLAY THERAPIES and STRUCTURED PLAY THERAPIES
Levy (1938); Solman (1938); Hambridge (1955)

RELATIONSHIP/CLIENT CENTERED THERAPIES
Otto Rank (1936); Jessie Taft (1933); Frederick Allen (1942);Clark Moustakas (1959); Carl Rogers; Bixler (1949);Virginia Axline (1947); Landreth (1991)

BEHAVIOUR PLAY THERAPY
O'Connor (1991)

GESTALT
Violet Oaklander (1969)

JUNGIAN
Allan (1988); Kalf (1980); Weinrib (1983)

FILIAL THERAPY
Guerney (1964); Landreth (1991)

THERAPLAY
Jernberg (1979)

Books
Axline, V. (1947) Play Therapy. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin.
One of the classics of child therapy. Although almost a half century old, this remains a highly relevant study as we approach the twenty first century. The book is full of love and respect for children.
Bedard-Bidwell, Betty and Sippel, Margaret (1997) Hand in Hand, A practical application of Art and Play Therapy
Gil, Eliana.(1991) The Healing Power of Play
Greene, Ross W. (2001) The Explosive Child
James, Beverly (1989) Treating Truamatized Children
James, Beverly (1984) Handbook for Treatment of Atttachment-Trauma Problems in Children
Kaduson, Heidi and Schaefer, Charles (2000) Sort Term Play Therapy for Children
Kraft and Landreth. (1998) Parents as Therapeutic Partners
Lowenstein (1999) Creative Interventions for Troubled Children
Lowenstein (1998) Paper Dolls and Paper Airplanes
Lubimiv, G. (1984) Wings for Our Children. Burnstown, Ontario: General Store Publishing
Oaklander, V. (1988) Windows to Our Children
Papolos, Demitiri and Papolos, Janice (1999) The Bipolar Child
Sudsberry, Richard (2001) Relationship Parenting
VanFleet, Rise. (1994) Filial Therapy: Strengthening Parent-Child Relationships Through Play.