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Play therapy is a gentle intervention that utilises the power of play that allows children to resolve emotional and behavioural difficulties. Often children don’t feel comfortable communicating how they feel using words, but they mostly always feel comfortable expressing how they feel through play, as “play is their language and toys are their words.” Just like adults attend therapy to talk out their problems, children attend therapy and use the space to play out their feelings and release their anxieties.

A series of art therapy workshops, currently being run by Red Door Studio at Galway City Museum, are bringing a positive mental health message to an unexpected setting. The workshops, called Re:Imagine, use the museum's exhibits as a form of therapy - by exploring the space, and creating their own art in response to this, participants can learn to understand themselves better, and heal through self expression in a safe space.