Let’s welcome back our guest blogger Theresa Fraser as she interviews an accomplished adolescent and how her mother’s profession has impacted her outlook on life! ___________________ I had the pleasure of interviewing the daughter of a colleague. I need to add that this colleague and I have been distance friends for over 7 years and our …
Let’s welcome my next guest blogger is Kamini Verma as she dives into becoming play therapist!
Our next guest blogger is Dr. Jessica Stone who dives into the world of working with gifted children.
That is the name of Holly Willard’s coloring book and the subject of her course Sexual Abuse Treatment Methods Using Play Therapy from the 2017 Play Therapy Summit. Holly takes this topic very seriously and it is obvious during her heartfelt presentation that sexual abuse prevention is one of her passions. And that’s because she …
Hey everyone! Welcome to 2018! You may have noticed that you have not been getting the weekly emails anymore. Since moving to Hawaii, I have really dropped the ball on that one. But luckily, I have found some really great colleagues who are going to step up and give you even BETTER content. I am …
Clinicians-Are you prepared for a high conflict family court case? I could talk about play therapy all day. It’s fun and exciting and so powerful. You know what’s not fun? Spending a whole day in court responding to a subpeoona on a divorce and custody case. In the 2017 Play Therapy Summit, Lynn Louise Wonders …
Integrative Attachment Informed Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy (IAI-CBPT) was a topic in the 2017 Play Therapy Summit presented by Dr. Angela Cavett. Dr. Cavett created this model out of her love for play therapy and out of her desire to help her clients achieve even more powerful results. If you don’t know Dr. Cavett, don’t …
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I just wanted to take a quick minute to say how thankful I am for everyone that participated in the 2017 Play Therapy Summit. I have now moved to Hawaii and since it might be cold where most of you are, I’m not going to talk about the amazing weather. I will say that it has …
Part of a therapist’s job is to help children with adjusting to change in a healthy and productive way. Typically this involves changes that happened in a family PRIOR to the therapists involvement (like a divorce, move, new school, medical diagnosis, etc) or to a change that happened after they started therapy (like a new …
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The first meeting of my new Play Therapy Virtual Book Club was a hit. We had a fantastic group of clinicians discuss Virginia Axline’s classic book, Dibs: In Search of Self. If you missed it, the recorded version of this course is available for non-contact hour credit here. (And, the audio of the discussion is available …
Play Therapy Book Club- August Touch in Child Counseling and Play TherapyRead More »