Recreational Therapy

Recreational Therapy is the purposeful delivery of play, leisure, and recreation based activities designed to restore, remediate, and rehabilitate an individual’s health, independence, and quality of life.

At Creative Forces Therapy, our certified recreational therapists use play and leisure as the platform to assist in the growth of developing skills and improving the overall quality of life of the client. Our therapists believe in a client-centered and client-lead approach, encouraging the individual to help shape their therapy experience in an organic way that relates to their interests and story. 

When starting services, our therapists take the time to establish a safe, genuine, and authentic therapeutic relationship with the client to build the foundation of trust and safety. We then cater therapeutic interventions around the items that cultivate joy and intrinsic motivation. 

Skill development areas at Creative Forces Therapy may include emotional awareness and identification, safe self and co-regulation strategies, communication and social, body awareness, movement and mobility, independence and autonomy, self-confidence, flexible thinking, and cognitive skills, community safety and integration, and self-identity.

Each Recreational Therapist at Creative Forces holds a Bachelor's degree in Therapeutic Recreation and accreditation through the National Council of Therapeutic Recreation Certification.

Learn more about Recreational Therapy: 

ATRA: https://www.atra-online.com/page/AboutRecTherapy

NCTRC: https://www.nctrc.org/about-ncrtc/about-recreational-therapy/