About the Practice
When a child is coping at school by running, hitting out or shutting down, play can show adults what pressure is building underneath. Platypus Play Therapy Manchester and Cheshire supports Manchester families with play-based and counselling-style emotional wellbeing support for children who need more than another conversation at the kitchen table. The focus is safer expression, stronger connection and practical understanding for the adults around the child.

Clinical Expertise
Play therapy, Parent-Child Attachment Play, Heart to Heart, Lego Therapy groups and school-based therapeutic work

Early childhood trauma, anxiety, school coping, communication through play, emotional expression, relationships and self-esteem

Lego Therapy groups, school experience and child-centred interventions can support SEND-related social and emotional needs

Why Work With Us?
PTUK Certified Play Therapist: Parents can see the therapist role, membership route and safeguarding position before trusting someone with their child’s inner world.

School and Parent-Child Attachment Work: Play, creative work and counselling-style support help children communicate through action, story, art, movement and relationship when direct questions only make them close down.

Parent and School Connection: The work can help children build safer emotional expression while giving parents and schools clearer recommendations they can use day to day.