Figurenzauber - Praxis für Figurenspieltherapie (Erlinsbach)

Figure Play Therapy for Children.

Play, create, express yourself, relieve stress, develop potential.

Figure Play Therapy is a holistic, resource enhancing, psychotherapeutically oriented form of play and art therapy.

It helps children (recommended from the age of 4) to express emotional stresses through creative and playful means, to reduce and process inner and outer conflicts. In play, new solutions and behaviors can be tried out without fear and thus playfully integrated into personality development.

The focus of the method is on figure play. Using a wide range of different hand figures, props and stage materials, self-invented stories are played out in which the child symbolically represents his or her problems and challenges. I support the process gently and in a solution-oriented way, with the goal of promoting and strengthening the abilities and self-healing powers of your child.

Other activities such as making one's own figure, drawing and painting, felting, working, sand play and fairy tales support the therapeutic process and enable the child to give shape to his or her inner images.

Figure play therapy for children is useful in:

• Emotional stress
• Developmental or behavioral problems
• Family problems such as (separation of parents, sibling rivalries, jealousy)
• anxiety states
• Enuresis
• sleep disorders
• School problems
• Psychosomatic complaints
• conspicuous social behavior e.g. aggression
• coping with grief
• Experiences of violence
• trauma

For further information and questions I am at your disposal in a personal conversation.

Figure Play Therapy for Adults

Creativity, mindfulness, well-being, quality of life, self-determination, joy of life.

Figure Play Therapy is a form of play, expression and art therapy that is oriented towards psychotherapeutic approaches. This method builds on the foundations of C.G. Jung's developmental psychology.

The focus of the therapy with adults is the modeling of one's own figure. By creating a counterpart, inner and outer conflicts, one's own strengths and unconscious parts become visible and can be processed in conversation, through relaxation techniques, phantasy journeys, movements, enlivening the figure or in play. New solutions for one's own challenges and problems can be tested and integrated in a light-hearted way.

As their companion, I support them emphatically, reflectively and solution-oriented in their process. With the goal of recognizing their own development possibilities and competencies and to use them beneficially for themselves.

According to their needs and wishes, other offers such as painting and drawing, fairy tales, writing stories, felting, clay and sand can support the therapeutic process.

A figure play therapy for adults is helpful for:

• Psychosomatic symptoms
• Anxieties
• addiction
• depression
• Search for meaning
• Grief and losses
• chronic pain

For further information and questions I am at your disposal by phone or in a personal conversation.