Certified Play and Creative Art Therapist
Kylie Lindholm
Trainee Play and Creative Art Therapist
All Play and Creative Art Therapists are registered with Play Therapy UK (PTUK) who are accredited by the Professionals Standards Authority (PSA).
“Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords”
Erik Erickson
Play and Creative Arts Therapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses an integrative holistic model validated by Play Therapy UK’s (PTUK) evidence base. It integrates the therapeutic use of a wide range of creative arts media working with unconscious and conscious processes, using both nondirective and directive approaches and integrating research with practice.
Play and Creative Arts Therapy builds on the natural communicative and learning processes of children and young people (CYP), who may not have the words to express how they feel or why they behave a certain way. Through play and creative arts, CYP can explore their thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a dynamic way, without having to use words to articulate themselves.
Play and Creative Arts Therapy can support CYP who are experiencing emotional dysregulation and internalising or externalising behaviours that could negatively impact their development, mental wellbeing, and education.
Sessions are held in a confidential, therapeutic, safe space where trained therapists use a consistent non-judgmental, accepting approach to enable a trusting therapeutic relationship to be built.
Through the safety of play and creative arts, CYP can work through traumatic experiences to help them make sense of their past and support the development of healthy and resilient relationships for their future. They can learn more adaptive behaviours and redirect their feelings and emotions, providing insight and resolution to their inner conflicts.
Working CYP led, meeting them at their development stage, and with the safety and distance in combinations of creative arts, play and metaphor helps CYP to feel empowered and navigate their complex pathway at their own pace and protects their emotional safety. The therapeutic space and relationship built within these sessions aims to create the environment for self-discovery and growth.
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We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfil this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilises various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilise an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilises an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimises its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behaviour for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email enquiries@yyd.org.uk
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimisation: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to enquiries@yyd.org.uk
