About Sarah
Sarah Daley (she/her) a Registered Play Therapist (APPTA) and an Accredited Social Worker (AASW) who has spent her life working with children, young people and families in creative, playful and expressive ways. Sarah has worked in diverse communities and in a variety of roles. Sarah has worked with elders to run strong family healing camps in the Tiwi Islands, facilitated drama groups with young people with a mental illness who wrote and performed their life stories in Melbourne, lived and worked in Timor-Leste setting up a play and arts centre for children with disabilities. Sarah has worked across a range of fields in international development, homelessness, remote Aboriginal communities, child and family mental health, juvenile justice and in schools. It has been over the last 9 years that Sarah has consolidated her therapeutic work with children and families.
Sarah’s interest in play therapy came as children presented and wouldn’t engage in talk based therapies, they wanted to play! Sarah believes play therapy is really story telling, play therapy gives children a voice to express themselves using their most natural language - play!
Sarah loves to learn and is a Masters qualified Child and Family Play Therapist. Sarah will be a life long learner, always upskilling and engaging in training and supervision. Sarah is often reflecting on best practice, and could never be a purist in one type of therapy because humans are so complex, we all need something unique. Sarah was drawn to working with children because it was an opportunity to prevent ongoing life challenges. However it is never too late to heal from childhood trauma, and Sarah has found a beautiful therapeutic modality in Relational-Integrative EMDR that offers an opportunity for healing wounded child parts in adults, in a compassionate and holistic way. Sarah’s ability to be with children makes it feel so natural to work with an adult’s child parts. Sarah is so excited to be working across the life-span, and continuing to learn and support others in their healing journey.
Sarah is also a mother, and in her spare time she likes to play with her own family, walk in nature, dance in the kitchen and practice yoga. Sarah believes play is not just for kids and wellbeing is directly connected to our ability to be more playful in everything we do.
Parent Feedback
“It's starting to settle in for me and I am already using the techniques with my child. I'm really starting to understand the power of it”
“ I feel like we are really really well supported with my child’s neuro diverseness. I literally had nothing when i was her age, it wasn't until I was 15 that my mother discovered ADHD!.... let alone resources or formalised supports such as this “
“It's really important work that your doing!!
“She loves it! She has been so uplifted after each session. Thank you so much for your magic!”