Play therapy rewires the brain! Facing childhood traumas, with The King’s Trust
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.7 • 15.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Everyone deserves the chance at a fulfilling life. Shauna Tiffany grew up in foster care, feeling ashamed of and responsible for her parents’ choices. Creative play therapy helped her work through her childhood trauma, and now – with the support of The King’s Trust – she’s built her own business doing the same thing for other children and families.
In this chat with Fearne, Shauna explains how she’s learnt to believe in herself because of the way others have chosen to believe in her. Emotional support has made her feel worthy of great opportunities, and practical advice has empowered her to turn ideas into reality, so they chat about how to gently chip away at increasing self-confidence.
Plus, Fearne’s got a big surprise for Shauna...
Check out Shauna’s work at Lighthouse Therapy Hub.
Find out more about The King’s Trust.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Happy Place with me Fern Cotton. Today, oh, this chat is going to properly warm your heart and fire you up. I'm talking to an incredibly impressive woman. Her name is Shawna. |
| 0:16.6 | My experiences have been like self-belief, self-confidence, not feeling worthy enough. |
| 0:21.8 | All of the things that happened for my parents were always blamed on me. |
| 0:25.8 | Now, looking back, I can see as a child it was never my fault. |
| 0:29.3 | But when you're growing up in that situation, |
| 0:31.6 | means that now it's been challenging to face them barriers |
| 0:35.9 | because I'm not only breaking the barriers of what the internal model is, but also recognising that actually I was just a child. |
| 0:42.9 | But the experiences before have been told you're not worthy, you don't deserve it, you're not going to do anything. |
| 0:47.9 | That repeatedly meant that I didn't trust anyone. |
| 0:51.4 | Now, Shawna was in the care system as a child, and her experiences inspired her to start her own |
| 0:57.5 | business, Lighthouse Therapy Hub, where as an accredited play therapist, she uses different |
| 1:04.0 | creative therapeutic approaches to revisit people's past experiences and trauma. |
| 1:10.5 | She's one of the 2026 winners of a regional young |
| 1:13.9 | changemaker award from the King's Trust, which is such an amazing charity. I'm actually a goodwill |
| 1:20.9 | ambassador for mental health and well-being for them. And I absolutely hold that title by my heart at all times. I'm so, I feel very lucky to be a |
| 1:32.1 | goodwill ambassador for the Kings Trust, mainly because I get to meet so many wonderful people |
| 1:37.3 | that properly shift my perspective and motivate me just like Shawna who you're going to meet |
| 1:43.4 | today. Kings Trust helps support |
| 1:46.1 | young people aged 11 to 30 and believe that every single young person should have the chance to |
| 1:51.3 | succeed no matter their background or their personal challenges. They offer support into education, |
| 1:58.1 | into training and into jobs too. And as you're here, they help Shawna launch |
| 2:02.6 | her business. This was a really cool opportunity to talk with Shawna about the power of both |
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