Our approach to Child Therapy
Child therapists at Toronto Psychological Services deeply value the opportunity to work with vulnerable children. Through significant training and experience we are aware that change, should change be chosen by our young clients, must be made within a supportive environment with a therapist who is both sensitive and respectful.
As child psychologists, we most often choose to use non-directive, child-centered play therapy because we are well aware that positive change can never be forced or directed from outside of the client. We believe the therapeutic relationship to be central to change. The child-centered theoretical orientation suits us best because we believe, like psychologists before us that “the therapist does not take a person-centered approach as much as s/he lives a person-centered way of life in therapy”.
Psychologists, psychological associates, and child therapists at Toronto Psychological Services embrace both the philosophy behind child-centered play therapy and the belief that all people, no matter what their age, have the potential for growth and change within them.
