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Welcome to The Looking Glass Play Therapy and Creative Counselling Services. My name is Kelly Sawyer and I am a Certified Play Therapist, Creative Arts Counsellor, Filial Therapist and Trainee Clinical Supervisor. I provide Play Therapy sessions to children of all ages in and around the Oxfordshire Area. Play is the natural language of children and during play therapy children are able to use play to express and resolve problems which they find hard or unable to express with words. Play Therapy is a non-directive and non-judgmental approach which uses a variety of play and creative art methods to assist children and young people who struggle with chronic, mild and moderate psychological and emotional conditions. As a play therapist I develop a therapeutic relationship with the child based on trust and acceptance, whilst working alongside parents, teachers and others involved in the care of the child. As a Creative Arts Counsellor I am able to work with older children and young people combining talking and listening skills together with more structured Creative Work.

I am also a qualified Filial Therapist. Filial Therapy is an intervention in which the therapist trains and supervises the parents as they hold special child-centered play sessions with their own children thereby engaging the parents as partners in the therapeutic process and empowering them to be the primary change agents for their own children. A combination of family therapy and play therapy, Filial Therapy aims to eliminate presenting problems, improve parent-child relationships, and strengthen the family system as a whole.

I am currently a trainee Clinical Supervisor and offer supervision sessions to both PTUK members and other organisations. Supervision has three primary functions; it should be educative, supportive and managerial and is essentially an interpersonal interaction with the goal that regular meetings between the supervisor and supervisee can assist the latter in becoming more effective in helping people and allows growth of his/her professional identity.

Please look around The Looking Glass website and if you have any comments or questions, please feel free to contact me.

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Puppets

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Sandtray and objects

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Arts and Crafts

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