Schedule
Winter-Spring Social Play Groups 2025:
For Exceptional Children with Social-Emotional Challenges
*We begin screening new clients for our Winter-Spring ‘25 social skills groups mid-Decemember.
* All social skills groups are held in person at our studio.
We offer quality social skills groups for children 4 years old to 15 years old. Our groups are limited to 6 participants.
COVID Protocols*: All participants are required to have their temperatures checked, shoes removed, and hands sanitized before entering our play studio. Masks are optional.
Signature Social Skills Groups Summer ‘25 Session: Jan 6th - June 2nd 2025
Weekly Session Fee is $85/1.5-hour session; Fee includes our half-hour parent follow-up session.
Enrich your child’s school and friendship experience by practicing play and communication skills with peers in a safe setting. Learn to share, self-regulate bodies and emotions, read social cues, win/lose, lead and follow, flexible thinking, game ideation, feelings work and more.
For our older tweens and teens, we practice critical social-emotional skills: perspective-taking; social nuance; conversation skills, empathic responses, team-building, good sportsmanship, public speaking, and improvisational theater and performance in our summer “build-a-play program.”
Dragons: (8-10 yrs.) Mondays 3:30-4:30pm; 4:30-5pm Parent check-in.
Teens: (12-14 yrs.) Mondays 5-6pm; 6pm-6:30pm Parent check-in.
Stretchers (11-13 yrs.) Tuesdays 5:00-6pm; 6-6:30pm parent check-in.
Flexi-Cheetahs (5-7 yrs.) Wednesdays 3:30-4:30pm; 4:30-5pm parent check-in.
Islandis: (10-11 yrs.) Wednesdays 5pm-6pm; 6pm-6:30pm parent check-in.
Chicken Nuggy’s: (10-11 yrs.) Thursdays 4-5pm-5pm; 5pm-5:30pm parent check-in.
Graduate’s Group: (11-15 yrs.) Thursdays 5:30pm-6:30pm; 6:30pm-7pm parent check-in.
Parent-Child Pre-School Recreation Group: (4-5 yrs.) Fridays 4pm
For Adults & Families:
Individual Adult or Teen Therapy; Couples Therapy; Parent Consultations: $185/session
Parent-Child Play Coaching & Family Play Therapy: $185/session
Restorative Therapy: For Adults Only; a restorative self-care session combining mindfulness, nature walk therapy, and relaxation. $185/hr. *Sessions take place at our Cottage Location and the Tryon Creek woods.
About our Staff:
Charla Cunningham, Owner; Sr. Therapist:
Licensed Marriage Family Therapist & Drama Therapist is recognized nationally for her groundbreaking work integrating therapy and theater for children with special needs. She holds a Masters of Arts Degree in Counseling Psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and a Masters of Fine Arts Degree in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater. She has practiced child and family therapy both in the San Francisco Bay Area where she was a founding faculty member of the Oak Hill School, and in Portland, Oregon where she practiced as a child and family therapist at the Hearing and Speech Institute / Artz Center for Developmental Health. She is the founder/owner of Playful Intervention LLC, and has been running the Practice for the past fifteen years.
Molly Maguire, Senior Therapy Assistant:
Molly joined P.I. in the summer of 2024. She has many years teaching and working as a care-giver with children, families, and Seniors. Molly is also a performance and visual artisit who brings experience working with neurodivergent youth in the Practice.