Play therapy uses various methods to foster learning, provide a reparative experience, and to help your child communicate. Play is a natural form of expression and communication for children and can help them when their vocabulary falls short. Play therapy also provides a very natural way for children to build a relationship with the therapist and to strengthen relationships with their caregivers. Because children learn much better through experience, it fits their developmental needs better than traditional talk-therapy alone. Play therapy includes toys that encourage expression, such as art, games, sand-tray, dollhouses, imaginative play, role-playing, puppets, attention and focus activities, and music.