Rising on Water: Play Therapy in a New Form - Paperback

by Yael Livneh (Author)

Water Play Therapy (WPT) is an innovative therapy technique in which water is the main therapeutic medium. Rising on Water explores the theoretical basis of WPT and guides the reader on how to use water as an effective tool, particularly to facilitate a child's inner world. WPT assists therapists working in the field of child trauma, sensory process disorders, anxiety as well as other types of communication problems. Besides water, the technique uses elements such as color, play objects and storytelling. Readers have the opportunity to enter the "World of Water", through a variety of case studies that demonstrate the ability of water to resurrect repressed memories from the distant past by detaching and floating thoughts and ideas. In the book, seven year old Lehi creates a Red Water World which describes her traumatic moment of birth. This book is for all individuals working with children.

Author Biography

Yael Livneh, MA, and PhD candidate lives in Israel and is married with 4 children. Yael has developed a form of art therapy called Water Play Therapy (W.P.T.) and for the past 17 years has practiced expressive therapy (Inter Modality approach). Yael also works as a Theater Director and her various career tracks supplement her overall approach. She conducts workshops at hospitals and universities where her W.P.T. method is being widely adopted. In her private clinic she treats children with emotional difficulties. She also produces and conducts expressive art therapy workshops with communities in Africa where she also combined W.P.T treating trauma cases.