Welcome to Pawsitive Counseling Center and the Paws for Healing Program founded by Dr. Mary Rottier, LPC, RPT/S. Paws for Healing is a therapeutic program that incorporates the use of trained therapy dogs into play therapy sessions. Explore this site to find out more about our counseling strategies, techniques, and how these special dogs are incorporated into our practice.
This site also offers professionals and families many resources including training opportunities about the emerging field of Canine-Assisted Play Therapy. Today you are one step closer to a new you where you feel empowered and on a positive path to growth and well-being. Our goal is to help you uncover your true potential and lead a life that is worth celebrating.
This site also offers professionals and families many resources including training opportunities about the emerging field of Canine-Assisted Play Therapy. Today you are one step closer to a new you where you feel empowered and on a positive path to growth and well-being. Our goal is to help you uncover your true potential and lead a life that is worth celebrating.
Services
We work with a wide range of emotional and behavioral issues providing services that span from therapy for depression and grief counseling to parenting support, play therapy with preschoolers, and beyond. In a comfortable and supportive atmosphere, we offer a highly personalized approach tailored to each of our clients individual needs to help attain the personal growth they're striving for.
Play therapy is a powerful tool for addressing cognitive, behavioral, and emotional changes. Licensed professionals therapeutically use play to help clients better process their experiences and develop more effective strategies for managing their worlds. Behavioral issues caused by bulling, grief and loss, divorce and abandonment, physical and sexual abuse, and crisis and trauma.
Paws for Healing is a therapeutic program that uses trained canines in play therapy sessions. Appropriately-trained therapists and canines engage with children and families primarily through non-directive play therapy, with the goals of improving children's emotional and developmental health.
Canine-Assisted Play Therapy is defined as the incorporation of an animal into a play therapy session to increase the amount of opportunities for tracking behavior and reflecting feelings.The animal serves the role of co-therapist in the session by engaging the therapeutic powers of play. It is a combination of the well established fields of Animal-Assisted Therapy and Play Therapy.
Canine-Assisted Play Therapy is defined as the incorporation of an animal into a play therapy session to increase the amount of opportunities for tracking behavior and reflecting feelings.The animal serves the role of co-therapist in the session by engaging the therapeutic powers of play. It is a combination of the well established fields of Animal-Assisted Therapy and Play Therapy.
An eight year old child presented with his mom in my office due to parental divorce. The child (we'll call him Stevie) was an extremely anxious and depressed child who clearly exhibited developmental delays. His mother reported that he is in special education classes and has learning disabilities. He has speech problems and has always been made fun of in school.
The purpose of this study was to present a model for combining animal-assisted therapy and play therapy as well as providing data on its effect on a child's response to play therapy. In canvassing the literature it was apparent that few studies exist on using AAT in psychotherapy with children and no studies exist on its integration into non-directive play therapy.
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Laurie D.
Dec 15, 2017
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We recently moved to Fremont and I called to set an appointment for my daughter who has had difficulty socializing in a new school after years of online school in a major city. A receptionist told me she needed details and my insurance information before the Dr. would commit to seeing her. She called back the next day to say the Dr. wouldn't take my daughter. I suspect my insurance was discriminated against even though I was happy paying cash to get help for my child.
