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Bright Hearts Play Therapy Space
We're so excited to announce that we have finally secured a beautiful play therapy space in Nowra!
Bright Hearts is excited to announce that we are now accepting referrals for child play therapy provided by a Tertiary AQF Level 9 Master 's-qualified child play therapist who also has 20 years' experience working therapeutically with children and parents.
Master-level Child Play Therapy is a highly skilled specialist intervention for children aged 2.2 to 12 years, who have experienced trauma and loss or are experiencing mental health and emotional behavioural difficulties.
With 20 years of experience working therapeutically with children and parents, we are located in the Nowra CBD, at our beautiful new Nowra Play Therapy Space, by appointment only.
To refer a child to the service, please click on the link below.
Servicing the Shoalhaven and Illawarra. We offer support for some services via Zoom, especially for children in remote and regional locations across Australia.
Bright Hearts Child Play Therapy
What is Play Therapy
"We’re not just playing Barbies or LEGO over here! This is serious business for the child-centred he
Children often struggle to talk about their feelings or experiences. Play Therapy offers a safe space where children use play—their natural language—to lead their healing at their own pace.
Masters-qualified play therapists complete hundreds of hours of practical clinical training and supervision, as well as undertake years of study to deeply understand child development, the brain, and the impact of life experiences.
In sessions, the play therapist gently follows the child’s lead, providing empathic reflections and holding both a physical and emotional space for the child to freely express their feelings and make sense of their world through play.
Play Therapy is grounded in developmental neuroscience, supporting healthy brain development and emotional regulation.
It is widely recognised as one of the most effective interventions for trauma recovery in children, allowing them to process and integrate overwhelming experiences through their own language of play at their own pace (Landreth, 2012; APPTA, 2024).
By following the child’s lead, play therapy empowers children to regain a sense of mastery and safety, making it a powerful tool for healing.
This level of play therapy is not an add-on certificate or brief training—it is a highly qualified clinical profession with extensive practical experience and deep knowledge of how childhood experiences shape the brain, behavior, and relationships across a lifetime, including epigenetic and intergenerational effects.
Play therapy is not just playing with toys; it is serious business conducted in the most natural and fun way, using the child’s own language to literally restore and regrow connections and processing in the brain that may have been compromised by trauma and other adversity.
References
Australian Pacific Play Therapists Association (APPTA). (2024). What is Play Therapy? Retrieved from https://appta.org.au/play-therapy/
Landreth, G. L. (2012). Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship (3rd ed.). Routledge.
