Next Level Play Therapy: A Podcast for Play Therapy Excellence

Send us Fan Mail Adolescents have their own unique needs in the treatment process. Play therapists often struggle with knowing how to help their adolescent clients access the therapeutic powers of play for healing. Using expressive arts with adolescents provides an excellent way to help them process and explore painful emotions and experiences. But, many therapists don’t use expressive arts due to...

Send us Fan Mail What mistakes in play therapy with traumatized children and teens are critical to avoid? No one wants to provide terrible play therapy services. I’ve never heard a play therapist say - “I’m okay with providing mediocre play therapy services to my clients, especially clients with traumatic experiences.” That would be terrible, right?! And yet, sometimes we don’t really know how to...

Send us Fan Mail Have you heard of a condition called alexithymia? Probably not because most mental health professionals are not familiar with this term. I wasn’t until I came across the term while looking at research about trauma. What does alexithymia have to do with trauma and working with children and teens in play therapy? That’s an excellent question! Alexithymia is a condition that can be f...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever had an adolescent client sitting across from you during therapy sessions who was not opening up despite all your best rapport building efforts? They sit there across from  you slumped in their chair (maybe hood on their head) or looking at you with a blank face? It can be challenging working with youth who can’t (or won’t) open up and talk about what’s causing so muc...