An insight: Online therapy

Online therapy tools could be teddies, puppets, miniatures, story-telling games, or books. Our therapists use all of these to engage children and young people in therapy online…

In an online play or dramatherapy session children may use a penguin as the main character in their ‘story’. The therapist may ask the child to think about a journey the penguin might be asked to take, to think about the penguin leaving the safety of his/ her home to travel across the world. The journey maybe to explore how things work and why some things happen the way they do. Luckily, the penguin has a super special suit that will help it to fly through space and time – the suit can be used as a metaphor to help a child build their own resilience, to ‘put on’ their own suit to help them in life.

Children can use the main character – in this case the penguin - in their therapy session to express their feelings of being stuck or isolated at home and wishing to access more fun, creativity and curiosity. The therapist supports the child through art and play therapeutic techniques online, giving the child the tools to use at home to help themselves too.

Online therapy tools