Tips for Maximizing Results Using Play Therapy to Heal Trauma

Next Level Play Therapy: A Podcast for Play Therapy Excellence

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Learning more play therapy activities isn’t enough to help children heal.

If you talk to the experts in the field of any mental health discipline, you’ll likely get very different answers about what is the most effective way to help clients heal from trauma.

This is true in play therapy as well.

There are a few things that are true across most play therapy models when working with trauma.

One big mistake often made by play therapists is over focusing on getting the “right” play therapy activities to use in sessions.

This usually results in feeling more confused and overwhelmed when your client isn’t making progress and you’re getting frantic calls from caregivers about all the things that aren’t going well.

So what really makes a difference to get the best results for your traumatized clients using play therapy?

Join me for this free weekly podcast! I’ll break down the benefits for using a play therapy framework that’s grounded in a theoretical model within the context of a safe therapeutic relationship.

We’ll examine why simply learning more play therapy activities won’t get you the results you want for your clients.

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1. Tips for Maximizing Results Using Play Therapy to Heal Trauma (00:00:00)

2. Intro (00:00:01)

3. Today's topic overview (00:00:52)

4. The Trap: Over-Focusing on Play Therapy Activities (00:03:39)

5. The Real Game-Changer? Having a Framework (00:07:53)

6. What Exactly Is Case Conceptualization? (00:09:28)

7. Why I Use a Neuroscience + Attachment Lens (00:16:34)

8. Using an Integrative Play Therapy Model (00:19:26)

9. Caregivers Are Part of the Healing Process Too (00:25:03)

10. Recap of today's discussion (00:26:32)

11. Resources - Trauma Training (00:32:59)

12. Outro (00:40:41)