Art Therapy – Back to top - COMING SOON! Art therapy utilizes art media, images, the creative art process, and patient/client responses to the created art productions as reflections of an individual's development, abilities, personality, interests, concerns, and conflicts.
Art therapy can help:
*reconcile emotional conflicts
*foster self-awareness
*develop social skills
*manage behavior
*reduce anxiety
*aide reality orientation
*increase self-esteem
The purpose of Art Therapy is not essentially to teach art techniques or complete 'projects' which will impress the onlooker, or to produce 'good art' in the conventional sense. It is about giving the space, time, and materials to discover your own individual creativity, and to experience being creative for its own sake, rather than necessarily having 'goals' or working toward a 'finished' product. The process of forming a relationship with the therapist through using images, can allow you to embrace more of yourself and can thus enable and facilitate a more generous self acceptance, leading to a greater wholeness. Because art therapy is about developing a personal way of creatively integrating one's self, it is not possible to predict the exact way in which therapy will proceed, apart from the commitment of the art therapist's knowledge, skills, and experience to this creative process and the provision of a clearly defined relationship.
*Meet our Art Therapist staff: Tia
Individual Counseling – Back to top - Each child needs individual attention. Prompt & Play offers children the opportunity to participate in counseling sessions to help them overcome obstacles while working with a therapist that is specifically trained in children’s counseling. Individual counseling can help children who have depression, behavioral concerns, bereavement issues, divorce issues, or just need therapy to help them understand themselves better.
*Meet our Individual Counseling staff: Crystal
Individual Play Sessions – Back to top - Younger children have widely different therapeutic needs.
In individual play sessions, children work on pretend play, sharing, social norms, and social skills in a more intense environment through one-on-one therapy.
Play provides a way for children to express their experiences and feelings through a natural, self-guided, and self-healing process. As children’s experiences and knowledge are often communicated through play, it becomes an important vehicle for them to know and accept themselves and others.
*Meet our Individual Play session staff: Crystal, Christa, and Laura
Life Skills Groups – Back to top - Life skills refer to a large group of psycho-social and interpersonal skills which can help people make informed decisions, communicate effectively, and develop coping and self-management skills that may help them lead a healthy and productive life. Life skills may be directed toward personal actions and actions toward others, as well as actions to change the surrounding environment to make it conducive to health.
During life skills groups, your child will learn:
*cooking, serving, and ordering food
*self-grooming
*everyday living skills
*organizational skills
Our life skills groups will help your child to:
*learn ways to be more self sufficient and independent
*learn importance of everyday skills & how these influence social acceptance
*set goals and follow through
*cook, serve, and order food
*interact independently in public settings
*Meet our Life Skills group staff: Crystal, Christa, Laura, and Kerilynn
Massage Therapy – Back to top - Massage therapy at Prompt & Play is offered for both adults and children. As a form of therapy, massage can be applied to parts of the body or successively to the whole body:
*to heal injury
*relieve psychological stress
*manage pain
*improve blood circulation and lymph flow
*relieve tension
*improve range of motion
*increase endorphins
In children, massage therapy can help ground children with sensory concerns. In addition, it is beneficial to alleviate childhood stress and anxiety. Massage therapy in childhood can be used as an excellent coping mechanism. This therapy has been shown to help the individual with autism to find greater ease, both within themselves and in the world around them, by decreasing structural stress and strain on their central nervous system (Upledger, 2007)**.
In massage therapy we offer:
*Swedish massage
*Full Body massage
*Deep Tissue massage
*Hot Stone massage
*Ear candling
*Trigger Point release
*Chair massage
*Hydrotherapy
*Reflexology
*Muscle-Energy techniques
*ROM assessment
*Meet our Massage Therapist: Linda
Music Therapy – Back to top - Music Therapy is a systematic process of intervention wherein the therapist helps the client to achieve health using musical experiences. During these musical experiences, the relationships that develop through them create dynamic forces of change within the client.
During music therapy sessions, your child will utilize:
*exploration of musical instruments
*participation in improvisation (vocally and instrumentally)
*song writing
*lyric analysis
*receptive music listening
*music and imagery
*music performance
Music therapy can:
*stimulate all of the senses and involve the child at many levels
*provide quality learning & maximum participation when experiencing the joy of play
*be highly motivating, yet it can also have a calming and relaxing effect
*encourage socialization, self-expression, communication, and motor development
*help a child manage pain and stressful situations.
*activate brain processes in both hemispheres
*stimulate cognitive functioning
*remediate speech/language skills
*Meet our Music Therapy staff: Kerilynn
Social Skills Groups – Back to top - Social skills are the skills that enable a person to interact and communicate with others in a meaningful way. Social skills are closely allied to Emotional Intelligence (EI) - a kind of intelligence or skill that involves the ability to perceive, assess, and positively influence one's own and other people's emotions. In order to interact effectively with others, one has to be able to monitor and control one's own emotional state.
During social skills groups, your child will utilize:
*goal setting
*role playing while participating in skits and guided imagery
*games, music, and movement
*verbal communication to express thoughts and feelings
*behavioral rehearsal
*arts & crafts focusing on sharing and using conversation
Our social skills groups will help your child to:
*understand humor and appropriate usage of humor
*differentiate between leadership and following others
*initiate, establish, and maintain lasting friendships
*recognize, read, and accurately perceive body language
*understand social cues and expectations
*listen, gain turn taking, sharing, and remembering skills
*speak in an appropriate tone and manner
*Meet our Social Skills group staff: Crystal, Christa, Laura, , and Kerilynn
Yoga - Back to top - Yoga focuses on harmony between mind and body. On the physical level, yoga postures, called asanas, are designed to tone, strengthen, and align the body.
Our classes will help your child to:
*develop strong, flexible, and healthy bodies
*increase concentration, focus, and attention
*build self-esteem and confidence
*cultivate a peaceful and relaxed state of body and mind
*express creativity and imagination
*acquire personal tools for stress management
*understand anatomy and health
*foster language development and social interaction
*explore self-reflection
*learn environmental awareness and earth care
*Meet our Yoga Instructor: Rochelle
