About Debra May

Debra May
BAPT Registered Play Therapist, EMDR Europe Accredited Consultant, EMDR Europe Accredited Child & Adolescent Consultant and Director of Child & Family Play Therapy Ltd.

Debra has over twenty years’ experience of working with children and families providing a range of assessment and therapeutic services through the use of play and drama. She specialises in working with children individually, as well as with their parents/carers where there are attachment issues complicated by previous traumatic experiences for both the child and their parent.
She runs a busy private practice providing training workshops of how to use play therapy and EMDR together to help a child process any traumatic memories.

Debra’s Publications:
May, D. (2006) “Time-Limited Play Therapy to Enhance Resiliency in Children”. In C. E. Schaefer and H.E. Kaduson (Eds) Contemporary Play Therapy, (pp.293-306). New York: Guilford Press.
May, D., (2009) “A System to Analyze a Child’s resilience from their individual Play Therapy. British Journal of Play Therapy, (Winter).
May, D., Mowthorpe, L., Griffiths, E., (2014)“Teetering on the edge of care: the role of intensive attachment-based play therapies” Adoption and Fostering Journal, BAAF, Volume 38 Issue 2 July 2014 pp. 131 – 148.

May, D., (2019) ‘Working with Child Trauma through EMDR and Play Therapy’. In Ayling, P., Armstrong, H. & Gordon-Clark, L., (pp. 247-260).

Please contact Debra on debraplaytherapy@aol.co.uk to find out more.