What is Play Therapy?
Play is kids’ natural form of communication and processing.
Just as adults use words to make sense of their experiences, children use play. Through play, kids express feelings, explore relationships, work through challenges, and experiment with new ways of being.
Play therapy creates a space where that natural process is supported within a safe, attuned, therapeutic relationship.
What happens in play therapy?
Play therapy is an umbrella term that includes many different modalities and approaches, both directive and non-directive, including child-centered play therapy.
In sessions, children and teens are invited to play, create, move, and express themselves. Toys are tools. Games, art, and imagination become ways of showing what’s happening inside.
Rather than being told what their challenge is, children reveal it.
Rather than being pushed toward solutions, they move toward what they need.
Given a safe environment and relationship, kids naturally go toward their own healing.
Sessions take place in Longmont.
Play sessions are 45 minutes, with a 15-minute parent check-in.
Sliding scale availability.
Insurance acceptance in progress.
Kait works with children and teens ages 3–18.
Kait’s Approach
Kait’s approach honors the whole child, not just their behavior, and is grounded in three pillars:
Awareness building
Observing regulation out loud and gently reflecting what she sees to help children build awareness of their inner experience.
Nervous system co-regulation
Modeling and supporting regulation through relationship, helping kids experience safety and steadiness.
Somatic and lower-brain support
Working in ways that meet children where stress, emotion, and experience live in the body and nervous system.
For Kids & Parents
For parents, play therapy offers insight, support, and partnership.
For kids, it offers a space where:
• they get to choose how they play
• they are welcomed as they are
• they are seen as good kids having a hard time
• they are met with advocacy, acceptance, and care
Each 45-minute play session includes a 15-minute parent check-in, supporting connection between what happens in the playroom and what’s happening at home.