Emily Holywell - Child & Adolescent Therapist

09/02/2025

Play couch added to the therapy space providing a comfy space to sit & talk AND building blocks for getting creative

21/01/2025

Welcoming kids back to therapy this week! 🐶
There’s a a few appointment spots still available!
Get in before they are snapped up!

12/06/2024

Sarah R. Moore, Dandelion Seeds Positive Parenting 🩷

15/05/2024

21/11/2023

14/06/2023

What the parent hears about their child’s play therapy session: I played today. What is actually happening: developing a life narrative; having experiences validated; experiencing a relationship with healthy boundaries; making the unconscious, conscious; resolving internal conflicts; having worth and value unconditionally acknowledged; having emotionally corrective experiences. Play is MEANINGFUL for children and is how they COMMUNICATE. The PLAY THERAPIST provides the relationship and security as the vehicle to move through all of these play experiences.
We created this graphic and quote based upon tens of thousands of play experiences with children. This is not a client quote.

09/06/2023

There's another way to consider children who seek movement in the atmosphere of labels and disorders, and that's an adaptation to one's body and brain wiring. When an individual’s body needs to move, it’s a self- accommodation— often a way to seek to regulate beyond one’s conscious awareness. We should incorporate more opportunities for children and students to move as their bodies need in school settings and beyond. 🏃‍♂️🏃🏽‍♀️

02/06/2023

Learning to accept a loss, admit being wrong, apologize-- don't just happen instantaneously. They develop over time as children begin to learn how to self-regulate disappointment (and prediction errors).

15/05/2023

This weekend might bring up tough emotions for some people.

If you’re worried, reach out, let them know you care about them and are there to support them in any way you can.

Find tips on what you can say and do to help them at https://bit.ly/3MXCqj9

11/05/2023

We are so excited to share the 2023 National NAIDOC Week Poster, ‘For Our Elders’, designed by the incredibly talented Bobbi Lockyer! Bobbi Lockyer

Bobbi is a proud Ngarluma, Kariyarra, Nyulnyul and Yawuru artist, born and based on Kariyarra Country in Port Hedland. Bobbi’s artwork, For Our Elders, “showcases how important our Elders are in passing down traditions and culture to our children and future.”

You can download your copy today from the NAIDOC website! https://www.naidoc.org.au/2023-poster

11/05/2023

🦖🦕 Our friends at Queensland Museum, Southbank have two exciting Sensory Friendly Sessions coming up incorporating the wonder of the Dinosaurs of Patagonia exhibition and SparkLab. 💥
Saturday 20 May, 8.15am-10.15am
Saturday 12 August, 8.15am-10.15am.
Read more and book tickets here. 👉https://bit.ly/3VPVp57