Byron Bay Play Therapy is a mental health service offering support to children and families experiencing emotional, relational and behavioural challenges. Principle play therapist, Skye Gannon, is a certified Synergetic Play Therapist and accredited Social Worker with postgraduate qualifications in psychology and child centred play therapy.

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I have developed a career path that I love, informed by my values of connection, curiosity, personal growth, and social justice. My aim is to provide therapeutic support to children and their families who experience trauma, disconnection, and distress.

 

I have over a decade of experience working in diverse settings across the community services sector. My counselling experience includes, Lifeline, trauma counselling, play therapist, domestic violence counselling, foster care and mental health expressive arts groups.

 My professional focus is to address the effects of childhood trauma and work alongside individuals to help lessen the negative impacts for them, their families, and communities.

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I am curious about the human condition and have studied psychology, social work and the arts. I have followed that curiosity into countries far different to our own, such as Pakistan, Mauritania, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan and Sri Lanka. My most profound adventure is still ongoing, as I parent two boys, aged seven and eleven. And it is through those relationships that I continue to develop patience and compassion, and acknowledge our capacity for growth in connection to each other.

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My family moved to the Northern Rivers when I was a child and I remain grateful to have grown up here, and feel deeply connected to the ocean and our wide open spaces. I am committed to the ongoing personal and professional development necessary to be able to work with trauma effected children, young people and their families.