Attach offers a safe and nurturing environment where children and young people feel supported to start making sense of difficulties and begin to build strong and trusting relationships. We believe all children and young people are precious, and with nurture and connection, everyone has capacity to overcome adversities.
Play is children’s natural or innate way of communicating with and without words, expressing self, and exploring their thoughts and feelings.
When children struggle to articulate their inner thoughts and feelings about their external worlds, Play Therapy, an evidence-based approach, provides children with a safe environment where they can process subconscious thoughts and feelings without the added pressure to articulate.
Through play, we are privileged to enter the child’s world and can then begin to understand how they might see and feel about their world, and their difficulties. Play therapy provides each child with a safe and supportive environment to play out their experience, process difficulties, and to heal.
"We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing."
Kelly is a Registered Play Therapist and Child and Parent/Carer Coach with extensive experience working with children, young people, parents and carers. She has sound knowledge of complex developmental trauma and its impact on brain, body, beliefs and behaviours for children, families, and generations. Kelly is passionate about working with children with complex histories and neurodivergent children including supporting parents/carers and the systems around the child such as educational facilities.
Kelly's primary studies in teaching and psychology formed the foundation for her postgraduate studies in play therapy and autism. She considers herself a ‘forever student’ building her knowledge through current research and practice.
Kelly's passion is seeing children and families thrive. She understands the importance of giving voice and listening to individual needs whilst acknowledging strengths. She believes everyone has capacity to overcome adversities if provided a safe and nurturing environment.
With over three decades of experience working in private, not-for-profit and government sectors Kelly has worked directly with children, young people and adults. Kelly works systemically, considering whole family and systems involved with the child. She has extensive experience with trauma, parent/carer coaching and training, and neurodivergence.
Kelly believes trusting relationships are at the heart of connection and healing. She believes in transparency and collaboration and has faith in the relationship as an agent for change. She has built trusting professional relationships locally, across Australia, and overseas in the UK and USA, and Canada.
Play is universal in children. It promotes normal child development and has therapeutic powers for processing internal thoughts and feelings about the child's external world, is a change agent for healing...
At Attach we help unpack, issues, work through difficulties and equip you with strategies to move forward in your parenting and relationships with self and others....
With extensive experience supporting parents and carers, Attach, work with a non-judgmental framework to nurture and build capacity so parents and carers can connect and manage...
Underpinned by Trust-Based Relational Intervention®, Attach, work with children, young people and adults who come from difficult histories. We work to promote healing and support people evidence-based trauma responses...
Attach use various assessments to appropriately support the client need and to track progress. We support clients with progress and full reports to support the systems supporting the child...
