Interplay Family Therapy

Interplay is a non-directive approach that combines humanistic principles with attachment theory and interpersonal neurobiology (how the mind is shaped by relationship). The core belief is that therapists should see children within their family system and for optimal growth and healing within their attachment relationships.

 In Interplay Therapy parents and care givers become central to the child’s therapeutic process.

Interplay therapists enter the child and parents’ world through play and notice the interaction/reaction between the child and parents’ response. By validating and responding to this experience offering therapeutic insight and support through co-regulation, both children and parents develop self- insight, insight into each other, integration and regulation, strengthening the child and parent relationship. Interplay supports children and parents to explore and reorganise experiences that may have contributed to their wellbeing, enabling growth and healing to occur.