Bianca Bird

Philosophy & Vision

Bianca is passionate about working with children and families, whilst providing a safe space to express themselves and process their experiences. Bianca’s approach to supporting children and young people is to offer assistance in a way that makes sense to them and provides a felt sense of being seen, heard and understood. Bianca believes in the importance of being able to hold the space to facilitate meaningful connection, healing and growth.

Background

Bianca Bird is a Registered Play Therapist, RPT-S, Clinical Supervisor and NMT Clinician in Private Practice and her qualifications include a Bachelor of Psychology and a Master of Social Science (Counselling). Bianca has extensive therapeutic experience working with children and families. Her career started in a student wellbeing role in a government primary school, before moving into various Child Protection roles within a large NGO in SA, including Specialist Foster Care providing therapeutic and trauma-informed interventions for children with high and complex needs. Bianca then further specialised by becoming an NMT Clinician and completing Post-Graduate Certificates in both Developmental Trauma and Clinical Play Therapy.

Services

Quality Provision

Bianca has extensive experience in supporting families within the Child Protection System, as well as children with high and complex needs in Out of Home Care. Bianca is passionate about strengthening relationships through developmentally sensitive interventions.

Nest Counselling and Consultation provides face to face mobile Play Therapy sessions across metropolitan Adelaide.

Therapy Approach

Child Centered Play Therapy (CCPT) is a specialised form of psychotherapy for children aged 2 -12+ years. It is a developmentally sensitive intervention that is non-directive and evidence based. Just as adults go to a talk based therapist for support during difficult times to work towards healing and growth; children are offered the same support from a play therapist in a way that makes sense to them, through play!

Play Therapy utilises play, children’s natural form of expression, to support children to express their feelings and to better understand their internal and external worlds. Toys are children’s words and play is their language.