Denise Casey Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy -Play Therapy

28/06/2026

Great explanation of Play Therapy

Whether a child is struggling with anxiety, friendship difficulties or changes at home, play can offer a powerful route to healing, writes Isabelle O’Kane.

12/06/2026

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07/06/2026

Thought provoking.

22/05/2026

❤️

Avoidance feels like relief. And in the moment, it is.

The heart rate slows, the dread lifts, and it feels like the right call.

But the brain is taking note. And what it learns is this: ‘We avoided that. It must have been dangerous.’

So next time, the alarm rings louder. The need to avoid feels bigger. And their world shrinks a little more.

This is how anxiety grows - not through weakness, but through what the brain is quietly being taught.

Because the brain learns from everything.

Every time we avoid something safe that feels scary, it files it under dangerous.

Every time we move towards it - even in the smallest way - it starts to learn something new. We did that. We survived. Maybe it’s okay. Maybe I can be brave.’

This is why we can’t protect young people from anxiety by helping them avoid it.

We strengthen them by showing them they can feel anxious and still move forward. That anxiety, as long as they’re safe, won’t hurt them.

The goal was never no anxiety. It was always this - learning to move forward with anxiety, small, doable ways.

Small brave steps. Repeated.

Not explanation. Not reassurance. Not waiting until it feels safe - because that moment doesn’t come first. Experience comes first.

Then another step. And another. Nothing heroic. Just real.

The brain doesn’t learn from what we tell it. It learns from what we live.

Avoidance grows anxiety.
Experience shrinks it.
The brain learns what it lives.♥️

12/05/2026

https://www.facebook.com/share/18Y7BYU8M6/

Perfection doesn’t build safety.
Return does.

Rupture is part of every relationship -
it’s what happens when two nervous systems meet, misread, miss, collide.

But it’s repair that teaches the brain
something deeper than getting it right: that connection can stretch, and still hold.

Children don’t need a flawless parent.
They need a parent who comes back - after the sharp tone,
the missed cue,
the moment that didn’t land.

Because in those returns, they learn something powerful: love doesn’t disappear when things get hard.
It repairs.
It stays.
It begins again.

‘I didn’t get that right. I’m here now. Let’s try again.’

This is how safety is built - not in perfection, but in the courage to return.

09/01/2026

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Some truth from shared by . Such an important message, feelings aren’t the enemy!