Castlemaine Play Therapy
1 Halford St, Castlemaine VIC 3450
- Clinic
About Castlemaine Play Therapy
Castlemaine Play Therapy is a specialist therapeutic service for children, young people, adults, and families offering creative therapeutic services to promote healthy development, emotional growth and wellbeing. Their purpose is to provide a respectful, creative, and supportive therapeutic environment for clients to heal, grow emotionally strong and build inner resilience.
What's offered
Clinic sessions
Services provided
Castlemaine Play Therapy lists
- Play Therapy
- Child-centred play therapy for children who discover and make sense of the world through play, especially when experiences occur before children have language to describe them.
- Counselling
- A counselling approach that engages the body and mind, allowing for personal creativity and use of the senses to enable deeper understanding of self and explore thoughts, feelings, and challenges.
- Dance-Movement Therapy
- A therapeutic approach drawing upon dance, movement systems, counselling and creativity to support emotional growth and enhanced wellbeing, allowing clients to explore thoughts and feelings in new ways.
- Yoga Therapy
- A mindfulness-based therapeutic service using principles of yoga including postures, breathing and mudras to enhance feelings of health and wellbeing within a warm, client-centred relationship.
- Professional Supervision
- 1:1 or small group sessions for counsellors, therapists and educators to reflect upon their professional practice in an emotionally safe, reflective space.
Fees
Per session (dependent on type of service provision and individual requirements)
$130–$180
From Castlemaine Play Therapy's website, April 2026. Fees change, so check with the provider before you book.
Get to know Castlemaine Play Therapy
From Castlemaine Play Therapy's website.
Our approach
Child-centred play therapy is a form of counselling especially for children that works at the child's own pace. Play is how children discover and make sense of the world, and through play they can explore meaningful topics like emotions, relationships, grief, and challenges without needing words. Sessions are safe and therapeutic, allowing children to work through issues, develop new skills, build emotional regulation and resilience, and gradually make sense of their lived experiences. By exploring their inner and outer worlds in play, children begin to resolve their difficulties and experience increased confidence and self-worth.
Meet the team
Dr Sally Denning is a children's counsellor, dance-movement therapist, play therapist and adult counsellor who has been working in these roles since the mid-2000s. She is a registered Clinical Dance-Movement Therapist (Clinical DMT Reg Clinical: 24561) and a PACFA Accredited Supervisor. The website does not provide detailed information about additional team members beyond Dr Sally.
Locations & areas served
Castlemaine
1 Halford St, Castlemaine VIC 3450
Get directions to Castlemaine (opens Google Maps in a new tab)Opening hours
- Mon–Fri
- 9 AM to 5 PM
- Sat–Sun
- Closed
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