Child Centred Play Therapy
& Mental Health Services.
For all children and families in Kirklees and beyond.
You shine, as you are.
As You Are Play and Creative Arts Therapy provides a safe, accepting therapeutic space where children and families can be completely themselves.
A warm welcome to As You Are Play and Creative Arts Therapy. Play Therapy can support children and famillies in many different ways.
We work with 4-13 year olds for Play Therapy and younger for Filial Therapy (family parent-child play therapy), depending on needs, with issues such as anxiety, trauma, behaviour problems, stress, anger, changes in life etc.
As You Are offers a generous, and well equipped independent clinical practice Play Therapy room as well as offering Outdoor and Bushcraft Play Therapy within its 5 acres of beautiful meadows and woodland. We also offer school and outreach services.
We are passionate about the futures and life choices of children and their families.
Next Steps
Get in touch to chat or visit for a free no obligation initial meeting.
How Play therapy Can Help
Play Therapy offers something many children rarely experience in today’s busy world:
A space that belongs entirely to them.
A space where they can explore, create, play, feel, think, wonder, heal, and simply be.
A space where they are accepted exactly as they are
A space where they discover that they already carry many of the strengths, resources, and answers within themselves and gain the confidence to use them.
A space where there is no pressure to speak, where they may use their natural language of play to express themselves, or process thoughts and feelings.
A space where they may use metaphor, symbolism and their subconscious, innate ability to heal and know themselves through creative mediums.
A space where successful evidence-based practice and neuroscience informed work look ‘just like play’.
As adults, we often dilute the meaning of ‘play’ to mean much less that what it actually means or does. Play is the foundation for all else and is an extremely powerful, essential part of both childhood and adulthood.
My Approach
Hi I’m Glenna, Founder and Owner of As You Are Play and Creative Arts Therapy, and I am a child and family therapist, fully qualified and accredited as a Certified Play and Creative Arts Therapist with PTUK (Membership Number 202104623).
My background is in teaching, both in this country in Primary and EYFS, and abroad with children and adults, as well as working with a variety of groups such as the homeless, alcohol and drug issues, and mental health etc.
I have a passion for children and families’ mental wellbeing as I believe it is through this that life opportunities are created. I strongly feel that mental health is the foundation for all else that follows and I believe that we all deserve the best that life can offer. You, As You Are, shine and are always enough.
Reasons for referral:
Absolutely loving play therapy...
"Absolutely loving play therapy, very excited to come. Has time with friends now, not just me. These sessions are really beneficial. We can discuss now and communicate getting through things staying resilient."
Parent, Kirklees
You shine just as you are...
“Everything you needed was right inside
So turn your light on, let us see who you are
One-in-a-million, no one's playing your part
Don't be perfect, like the moon and the stars
You shine just as you are
I hope you know you're magical
You shine just as you are.”
Thelma the Unicorn
