About Narelle Percival
Play Therapist
Narelle Percival is a certified Play Therapist, registered with PTUK. Narelle delivers play therapy to children aged between 4 and 12 years in the Amersham, Chesham and the surrounding areas.
Narelle is originally from Australia where she first completed a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and began working with teenagers in in Juvenile Justice. Since then she has gained over 20 years experience working with children, teens and families in a range of settings including Youth Offending Teams, Children's Homes and Children's Services.
Narelle is passionate about ensuring that children have the support they need to cope with the difficult situations they are faced with so they can go on and live their best lives.
Narelle is registered with PTUIK and compliant with their policies, has an enhanced DBS, registered with ICO.
Narelle lives in the Chilterns with her family and dog and enjoys walking, reading, playing board games and travel, especially back to Australia.
About Play Therapy
Play is a child's natural language how they learn, communicate, imagine and even process real life events.
Play Therapy is a type of therapy where children communicate and process through play. This is really helpful when they cannot find the words for how they feel or for young children who can find it difficult to express themselves verbally.
The Integrative Holistic Model of Play Therapy integrates the therapeutic use of various creative arts media working with both conscious and unconscious processes through directive and non directive approaches.
Play Therapy uses a range of specifically chosen toys such as sand, music, art, puppets, role play and craft.
Play Therapy can help children with emotional regulation, self awareness and understanding their own feelings.
Some children unfortunately experience some life challenges and they can be difficult to understand and process which then plays out in their behaviour. These events might be loss, bereavement, trauma, bullying or parental separation or mental health and this could be seen as anger, anxiety, sadness, low self esteem and low confidence.
PTUK found that Play Therapy made a positive change in 77% to 84% of children.
PTUK manage the Register of Play and Creative Arts Therapists in the UK which is accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
To be a Certified Play Therapist you have to complete a Post Graduate Diploma in Play Therapy and then a yearly stringent revalidation process which includes CPD and Clinical Supervision.
Click on the icons below for more information on PTUK and to check the register.
Our Services
What We Offer
Individual Play Therapy
Healing through Play
Child led play therapy following the principals of Virgine Axline and PTUK.
Group Play Therapy
As required by schools
Schools may request some group play therapy around a specific issue they are noticing. This would be a small group for a limited period of time.
FAQs
Common Questions
How long are therapy sessions?
Therapy sessions are once a week for 40 minutes. We usually start with 12 sessions and then review after 7 or 8 sessions to decide whether to extend or not.
What can I expect?
When a referral is first received, from either parent, school or Social Worker, Narelle will contact them to have a discussion to find out more about what is going on for the child.
Narelle will always ensure that parent/ carer consent is obtained and they will be spoken to before therapy starts. You will be asked to fill out a Strengths and Difficulties questionnaire which we use to monitor changes.
If therapy is at school, then Narelle will liaise with school also.
We will have a review meeting and plan the ending.
When therapy has finished, you will recieve an End Report.
Are sessions confidential?
Yes, sessions are confidential and we will not share the details unless a safeguarding concern. There will be an end report and we will feedback on engagement, boundaries etc.
Contact Us
Email: narelleplaytherapy@gmail.com Tel: 07547915240