All Play Therapies

All Play Therapies was established in April 2013 to deliver therapy services to young people and their families in Northern Ireland. It's Director Norma Patterson is very well known in the field of therapy services for young people, in December 2012 she left her full time post as a Director of Contact, formerly Contact Youth a leading NI Charity who established the first regional schools counselling service in every post primary school in NI, Contact also deliver tier two CAMHS services and the Lifeline service. Norma lead and grew the Creative Therapy Trauma Team in Contact who specialised in working with young people under 18 during her ten years working for the Charity. Norma is a BACP Accredited therapist who works with adults as well as children and has specialised over the last five years in providing play therapy to children with special educational needs and emotional and behavioural problems. She is the lead therapist with All Play Therapies and provides play therapy services to primary schools, special needs schools, social services, CAMHS and individual families. She is based in Belfast but also provides clinics in Coleraine and is open to travelling to different regions of NI.