Tag: trauma

  • Walking Back to Happiness

    Peter was in his late forties and in residential accommodation when we met, he had been the youngest child with three older siblings and was reported to have been consistently aggressive and violent towards family members.   As a little boy, when Peter exhibited aggressive behaviour he was shut in a cupboard by his father.  At…

  • Fairytale Healing

    Fairytale Healing

    Alice was referred to me for play therapy when she was five years old . She was referred by a team of health service professionals who were offering counselling support to Alice’s father and his new girlfriend.  Alice was grieving for her mother who had passed away with cancer two years earlier.  The little girl…

  • Angela Finds Her Voice

    Angela Finds Her Voice

    Angela was a tall, frail looking woman in her forties with dark hair and hunched shoulders.  She spoke in a whisper and rarely made eye contact. Whenever Angela left the residential home in which she lived, she clung to her support worker, linking arms wherever they walked. She had been diagnosed with a genetic condition…