Caoimhe Foley Play Therapy

01/09/2026

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27/08/2026

27/08/2026

Back-to-school conversations don’t have to be all about grades, behavior, and doing your best.

Some of the most important things we can give kids as they head into a new school year are realistic expectations about what learning and growing actually look like.

There will be mistakes. Hard assignments. Friendship changes. Awkward moments. Days they feel confident and days they don’t.

Our job isn’t to convince them that every day will be great. It’s to help them understand that they can handle the days that aren’t.

When kids know that struggle is expected, not evidence that something is wrong, they’re much more willing to keep trying, ask for help, and take healthy risks.

Save this one for the first few weeks of school. 💙

20/08/2026

Some Pop Up Messy Play Sessions coming up in Kilkenny ✨

Join us for all things messy play ✨

20/08/2026

20/08/2026

This is SO important. This is where we all go wrong. This is my mission to sing from the rooftops as a chartered physiotherapist with a hypermobile (hEDS) body. Breathing & proprioception. AND nothing else. This is where we must begin. This is the only safe way to build a foundation with bodies like mine. Strengthening and stretching as a starting point will do damage though well intentioned it does our bodies harm. It doesn’t mean never stretch or strengthen. It does mean there is a journey to take with these bodies and strengthening is end of the line only when the body is ready. If there is already chronic pain then it may take time to get here. You are healing us with your patience, with your knowledge to go slow. To start here. To trust this process and trust that this and only this is what our bodies need to feel safe and gently build foundations. Please don’t try to strengthen and stretch us first even though that is what you learned in college. It’s what I was taught too but for Bodies Like Mine it is the wrong method to lead with. Foundations first.

30/04/2026

Our Position on AI ‘Therapy’

We welcome innovation.
But not at the expense of safe, ethical care.

Alongside wider mental health bodies, there are growing concerns about the use of AI as a substitute for therapy.

AI tools may offer support in some areas.
However, they do not hold:

* clinical judgement
* ethical accountability
* responsibility for safeguarding

Therapy, particularly with children and young people, requires more than responses. It requires attunement, relationship, and professional training.

Presenting AI as a ‘therapist’ risks misleading individuals and families into trusting systems that are not equipped to support complex emotional needs.

As Play Therapists, we are clear:
AI should not be used as an alternative to qualified therapeutic support.

Because when it comes to children’s, young people’s and families wellbeing, there is no substitute for safe, human connection.

10/04/2026