Next Level Play Therapy: A Podcast for Play Therapy Excellence

• How to Write Great Play Therapy Documentation Quickly and Easily

  Send us a textWhat’s your least favorite part about providing play therapy services to your clients?Let me tune into my mind reading skills to read your mind  💭- documentation, right? Over the last 30 years in the child and adolescent mental health field, I’ve never met a therapist who says they love writing progress notes, treatment plans, and psychosocial assessments as much as or more than working with clients in sessions.  What I have learned over the last 30+ years is HOW to write progress notes, treatment plans, and psychosocial assessments using a process that helps me get it done quickly and in a way that’s actually useful.The key is learning these simple strategies to give you a framework so your documentation looks professional, meets agency and insurance standards, and shows the story of your client’s journey in play therapy.Join me for this weekly podcast, I’m going to walk you through the process of how you can make your play therapy documentation sound professional, meet agency and insurance standards, and help you get the best results for your clients without wasting hours agonizing over it.  Join my free Facebook Community Play and Expressive Arts Therapy Playground.Check out my free resources for mental health professionals working with children, adolescents, and families who want to integrate play therapy and expressive arts into their clinical work. I work with individuals and agencies to develop successful strategies and meet the treatment needs of your child and adolescent clients and their families using play therapy & expressive arts.Contact me to schedule a free 30-minute video call if you're ready to level up your skills

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• Why do you need strong Case Conceptualization skills for play therapy?

  Send us a textMost therapists I talk with, including play therapists, want to get straight to helping their clients during the very first session so they skip the detailed information gathering needed for a thorough assessment.I get it.  You want to make a difference and help your clients without wasting time.But is the information gathering process really a waste of time?No, it’s not.  In fact, taking time during that first appointment to gather information from parents, and clients if appropriate, provides much needed information to help your clients get the best results in play therapy.So, what exactly is case conceptualization in play therapy and how can it be useful to help your clients thrive?Join me for this free weekly podcast, I’ll discuss why you and your clients will benefit from strong case conceptualization skills and what is case conceptualization in play therapy.Join my free Facebook Community Play and Expressive Arts Therapy Playground.Check out my free resources for mental health professionals working with children, adolescents, and families who want to integrate play therapy and expressive arts into their clinical work. I work with individuals and agencies to develop successful strategies and meet the treatment needs of your child and adolescent clients and their families using play therapy & expressive arts.Contact me to schedule a free 30-minute video call if you're ready to level up your skills

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• What skills are needed to be a play therapist?

  Send us a textWhat does it mean to be a play therapist and what skills are needed to provide play therapy?Understanding fundamental principles for play therapy ensures child and adolescent therapists recognize the difference between using games in therapy versus play therapy.There are specialized skills child and adolescent therapists need to develop to ethically and effectively provide play therapy.Play therapists learn the important functions of play needed in counseling to be competent in play therapy.In a recent study, experienced play therapists were asked what are the basic skills needed to provide play therapy.Information was gathered and analyzed to identify core competencies needed to provide play therapy rather than simply using an adult model with children.Three categories of core competencies were identified that set play therapists apart from other treatment approaches.Want to know what they are?Join me on this week's podcast episode, I’ll discuss the core competencies identified in this study that form the foundation of play therapy skill development.  Join my free Facebook Community Play and Expressive Arts Therapy Playground.Check out my free resources for mental health professionals working with children, adolescents, and families who want to integrate play therapy and expressive arts into their clinical work. I work with individuals and agencies to develop successful strategies and meet the treatment needs of your child and adolescent clients and their families using play therapy & expressive arts.Contact me to schedule a free 30-minute video call if you're ready to level up your skills

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• What is Bias in Play Therapy?

  Send us a textMental health professionals are human beings who bring all of themselves into the counseling process to walk alongside their clients in the healing process.Humans are prone to biases and imperfection, including those in the mental health field.Play therapy is no different.Maybe that’s one of the reasons we tend to be a little neurotic about self-reflection and pondering why we do certain things.  😆I’ve often said to my husband over the last thirty years in mental health that I’m tired of self-reflecting all the time and that I just want to be in a job where I can feel free to be a butthead – Not really, (most of the time) because I feel waaaaay too guilty afterward wondering how much I hurt the person who was the recipient of my less than lovely behavior …and then I spend the next couple of hours self-reflecting on why I behaved the way I did and then I’m emotionally exhausted 🤣 – just keepin’ it real. Sound familiar? 😵‍💫On a serious note, though, one of the reasons we’re trained to be self-reflective is so that we reduce the potential for harm to our clients by our own imperfections.  This includes self-reflection about our biases (and yes – we all have them)What are biases in therapy and why is bias a problem?  How does bias show up in play therapy?What can we do about our biases in play therapy?In this week’s podcast episode, I’m discussing what is bias in play therapy and how it negatively impacts successful treatment outcomes if we aren’t willing to dive into shadow (a little Jungian metaphor there 🤓)Recognizing and naming our biases ensures we can provide quality play therapy services to support children and their families in the healing process in a way that is meaningful for them.#playtherapy #playtherapyworks #playtherapymatters #playtherapyplayroom  #playtherapist #playtherapyaroundtheworld #playtherapyinternational #expressivearts #expressiveartstherapies  #expressiveartstherapy #expressivearttherapy #sandtraytherapy #childtherapy #adolescenttherapy #childrensmentalhealth #adolescentmentalhealth #mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealth #playtherapytraining #expressiveartstherapytraining #renewingheartstraining #renewingheartsconsultingJoin my free Facebook Community Play and Expressive Arts Therapy Playground.Check out my free resources for mental health professionals working with children, adolescents, and families who want to integrate play therapy and expressive arts into their clinical work. I work with individuals and agencies to develop successful strategies and meet the treatment needs of your child and adolescent clients and their families using play therapy & expressive arts.Contact me to schedule a free 30-minute video call if you're ready to level up your skills

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• 4 Basic Skills for Play Therapists

  Send us a textWhat are the four basic play therapy skills every play therapist needs to master to competently provide play therapy that gets real results for your clients?The Association for Play Therapy has identified several play therapy core competencies necessary for becoming a Registered Play Therapist ™These core competencies identify what skills should be learned as a play therapist.These skills set play therapists apart from simply pulling out games and art supplies to help your young clients “talk” about what’s bothering them.These skills require play therapists to be grounded in a theoretical model that dictates how basic play therapy skills are implemented in play therapy sessions.What are these basic play therapy skills?Join me on this week’s podcast episode, I’ll discuss what these skills are and how they make a difference in the quality of play therapy services you provide to your clients.Join my free Facebook Community Play and Expressive Arts Therapy Playground.Check out my free resources for mental health professionals working with children, adolescents, and families who want to integrate play therapy and expressive arts into their clinical work. I work with individuals and agencies to develop successful strategies and meet the treatment needs of your child and adolescent clients and their families using play therapy & expressive arts.Contact me to schedule a free 30-minute video call if you're ready to level up your skills

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