Therapeutic Work with Younger Children

Dianne Kearney is conducting her practice one day a week at PIM, joining a small group who work from the group and counselling rooms. Di uses a variety of approaches with children to engage with them at their level and by following their lead helps them to play creatively and process what troubles them while ensuring they are safe. She uses psychodrama, art therapy, non-directive play therapy and story telling. These methods enable the child to build confidence and trust in the play environment, to enter with spontaneity into their own psychodramatic world and to begin to heal their social and cultural atom.

Di Kearney is a social worker, psychodrama-assistant, children's counsellor and is currently studying a graduate diploma in child psychotherapy. She holds qualifications in and has worked as a speech pathologist and an art therapist. For the past three years she has been working with children and families in Alice Springs.