Children don’t always have the words to explain how they’re feeling.
They show it through behavior, play, emotions, sleep, or physical complaints.

Play therapy helps children feel safer, more regulated, and more understood, while also supporting parents.

When child therapy helps

Families often seek child therapy when a child:

• has big emotions or frequent meltdowns

• struggles with anxiety or worries

• has difficulty separating from parents

• shows behavioral changes

• has sleep or eating difficulties

• struggles socially

• is adjusting to a move or new culture

• seems overwhelmed or withdrawn

If you’re unsure whether therapy is needed, that uncertainty alone is a good reason to ask.

What play therapy looks like

Children communicate through play. Therapy often includes:

• play-based exploration

• emotion identification

• coping and regulation tools

• building emotional language

• strengthening a sense of safety

Parent sessions are often part of the process, not because parents are doing anything wrong, but because children do best when the adults around them feel supported too.

International families and child therapy

Children growing up abroad often navigate:

• language transitions

• cultural differences

• missing extended family

• changes in routine

• parents under stress

Therapy gives them a consistent emotional base.

If family stress is affecting everyone, family therapy may also be helpful.

Intake and the Parent Role

Play therapy always starts with you. Before I meet your child, we spend time together gathering history. Not just milestones and diagnoses, but the context. Moves, languages spoken at home and in daycare, recent changes, sleep patterns, separations, losses, stressors you may not even be sure are relevant.

Parent sessions are a regular part of the work, not an afterthought. These happen alongside your child’s sessions and more often at the beginning. We use them to make sense of what’s showing up, adjust the focus of therapy, and support you in responding differently at home. You are not expected to become a therapist. You are part of the system your child is growing in.

Feedback is ongoing and practical. I won’t interpret every drawing or narrate your child’s inner world in dramatic terms. Instead, I share patterns I’m noticing, shifts in regulation, themes that repeat in play, and what they usually mean developmentally. We talk about what helps, what escalates things, and what to stop worrying about.

Common Themes for International Children

Children growing up internationally often carry stress that doesn’t look like stress. I frequently see:

Language fatigue from operating in a second or third language all day
Strong reactions around separation, especially at daycare drop-off
Sleep disruptions after moves, travel, or schedule changes
Aggression or meltdowns after school, when the body finally lets go
Stomach aches, headaches, or other physical complaints with no medical cause

These are not signs of failure or poor parenting. They are common responses to big demands on a small nervous system.

When Parents First Arrive

Most parents come in worried they’ve missed something important. They wonder if they caused this, if they waited too long, or if they’re overreacting. There’s often shame mixed in with love. A quiet fear that everyone else seems to be handling this better.

Part of the work is slowing that down. Helping you see what makes sense about your child’s behavior, what’s developmental, what’s stress-related, and where support actually helps. You don’t need to have done this perfectly. You just need a place to think clearly again.

Next steps

If you’re concerned about your child’s emotional wellbeing, child therapy or play therapy in Copenhagen can help.

You can book a free intro call to talk through what support might be most helpful.

Sessions are each 50 minutes

They take place in our office in Central Copenhagen.

PRICING

800 dkk per session