“Every school should have a Cath”

This grateful comment from a teacher I was working with today left me thinking about how as a play therapist I often have a different perspective on how best to support the emotional well being of children than that taught in conventional teacher education. It is with this in mind I have decided to blog some of my conversations with staff in schools in the hopes of sharing with a wider audience strategies that have worked for me and my colleagues and to prompt discussion of some of these strategies with a wider community