Sandra Streling

I am a passionate and creative newly qualified play therapist, who is eager to embark on a new professional journey. I am enthusiastic about using play as a transformative tool for children and adolescents to enable them to explore their emotional and behavioural difficulties. I am adept at providing psychodynamic counselling, where I demonstrated an ability to navigate complex cases, using a delivery of personalised and effective interventions.

I completed 100 hours of one-to-one supervised client hours during my 3 years of training, in a school setting. I covered topics of bereavement, anxiety, anger management, school refusal, settling into a new school, somatic expression and issue surrounding attachment. I have also supported the school with identifying signs of neurodiversity and the need for CAMHS referral.

MSc Play therapy at Queen Margaret University. Completed May 2024. I undertook a three-year course on child-centred play therapy recognised by the British Association of Play Therapists. The course involved a placement in a local primary school delivering child centred nondirective play therapy. The placements ranged from 8 sessions up to 25 sessions in length and from 30 minutes to 50 minutes in duration

BA Chid and Youth Studies at UHI Perth. Completed May 2013. I undertook a three-year course studying the social, physical, and psychological elements that can have an impact on the development of children and young people in the UK and Europe.