Children learn and grow through play. While adults can express their problems by putting them into words, the language of children is play. With the game, the child reveals the conscious and unconscious experiences that he cannot express. Instead of expressing their unresolved feelings and experiences with symptoms, children have the opportunity to express their problems through play sessions. In these sessions, the child's feelings and behaviors are accepted unconditionally by the child counselors. As the child feels unconditionally accepted, he will reveal his inner world and have the opportunity to work on his problems in a safe environment.
Play allows children to bond with the people they play with. Secure attachments allow for functional and healthy relationships. Children need to trust their counselors before they can express themselves through play. After providing a safe environment, children discover their emotions and behaviors in this environment. When children play in an environment that is reassuring and unconditionally accepting by their psychologists, they feel the trust of their counselors. This, in turn, enables children to trust themselves, to accept their own feelings and behaviors, and to be responsible for these feelings and behaviors.
Child counselors accept the child and the child's play unconditionally, are tolerant and have an empathetic attitude. Playing restricted games with parents or adults at home, at schools, and the decrease in the games that allow the child's imagination to be reflected in the game can cause negative effects. Child counselors, on the other hand, allow the child to discover himself and take responsibility for his own feelings and behaviors, making the child feel accepted. Thus, children gain competence over their own thoughts, feelings and behaviors.
Within the body of Kiana Psychology, the child and the counselor establish a real and healthy relationship. With this relationship, children can solve their problems by feeling that they are loved and accepted unconditionally. With these play sessions, conducted with a child counselor trained in the field, children are provided with a safe environment where they can be themselves and display their own nature and essence. In this environment, the child transfers the real life problems and problems to his game. He is faced with the problem he has experienced during the game, finds the opportunity to express his impulses, concerns, desires, and meanwhile, his counselor accepts and reflects the child's feelings unconditionally. This process allows for the resolution of problems and the healthy relationship established between the child counselor and the child helps the child to solve his problems.
When parents take the responsibility of solving children's problems, they unconsciously send implicit messages to the child that the child cannot cope with addiction and his own feelings, and therefore the child's self-esteem and self-confidence decrease. As Kiana Psychology, the counselor does not judge, direct, direct, advise, criticize, or ask questions in the interviews with the child. The counselor respects the child's ability to solve his own problems, and respects these skills, so that children develop a sense of responsibility in the process and learn that they can solve their own problems as well.
Play sessions are suitable for children aged 3-12. The duration of the sessions varies between 30 and 40 minutes. Topics that can be studied in Child Counseling as Kiana Psychology:
- Anxiety problems
- Fears
- Nail Biting, Finger Sucking
- Separation Anxiety
- Depression
- Eating, Sleeping, Toilet Problems
- Sibling Jealousy
- Friendship Relations
- Social Skills issues
- Compatibility Issues
- Behavior Problems
- Attention and Focus Problems
- Boundary Problems
- Anger Problems
- School Problems
- Divorce Process
- Lost, Mourning
