Play and Creative arts therapy is the combined use of art, sound, movement, storytelling, play and imagination. It integrates current best practices in trauma-informed care with what is understood about how to assist healing from trauma.
The focus of this approach is to support self-regulation through co-regulation. Play and creative arts interventions are used to not only support individuals’ own internal resources, but also provide various creative, action-oriented approaches to self-regulation and co-regulation when applied within groups or individually.
Here at Trauma Informed Consultancy Services, we recommend
Fiona Holiday who mainly works offline but will also work online when required. Fiona has a passion for art, creativity and play working with children and their families. You can learn more about how she applies a deeper understanding of our ‘Search for Safety’ in her
booklet which explains how our brains, bodies and minds work together to keep us safe.
Fiona takes
Stephen Porges polyvagal theory as a starting point and then uses the metaphor of landscapes and maps to help explore how we feel when we are in a place of “fight or flight” or “freeze”.