Next Level Play Therapy: A Podcast for Play Therapy Excellence

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You Don't Need More Play Therapy Training — You Need This Instead

2026-11-0543:54

Send us Fan Mail If you've been collecting play therapy trainings, accumulating CEUs, and adding to your technique toolkit — and you still walk into play therapy sessions second-guessing your clinical decisions — this episode is for you. If you’ve been secretly feeling like an imposter or not sure why your client (and you) are stuck - more information isn't what's been missing. A framework is. In this free weekly Podcast, we're challenging one of the most deeply held beliefs in the play...

Second-guessing? / STOP

2026-10-2941:26

Send us Fan Mail Do you feel like a fraud as a play therapist? Imposter syndrome in play therapy is one of the most common struggles for new play therapists and child therapists, and it's usually a lie your brain is telling you. If you're overwhelmed, second-guessing every play therapy session, and worried your clients are suffering because you're not good enough, you're not alone. Every play therapist I've trained has felt this way. In this free podcast episode, you...

Play Therapy Not Working? 4 Ways to Get Unstuck

2026-10-2247:14

Send us Fan Mail Is play therapy working for your client, or are you stuck in the "I don't know if this is helping" loop? In this free weekly podcast episode for play therapists and child and adolescent therapists, you'll learn 4 practical ways to tell if play therapy is working and what to do when nothing seems to help. You've tried the play therapy activity books, searched Pinterest for play therapy ideas, and used what you learned at your last play therapy training. Your ...

Family Play Therapy: 3 Signs a Parent Is Ready (and 3 Signs They're Not)

2026-10-1548:58

Send us Fan Mail In family play therapy, the caregiver's readiness matters as much as the child's. Because the parent-child relationship is the vehicle for healing, a parent has to be emotionally and mentally prepared to enter their child's world without taking it over. In this free weekly podcast, we break down how to assess parent readiness for family play therapy sessions, so you can decide when to bring a caregiver into the playroom and when more preparation is needed first. You'll le...

Family Play Therapy: Why Treating Just the Child Limits Outcomes

2026-10-0841:44

Send us Fan Mail If you're a play therapist or child therapist meeting with kids weekly while updating parents on the side — this episode is for you. Individual play therapy is powerful. But when the family system stays the same, even the best playroom work has a ceiling. In this free weekly podcast, we're exploring one of the most important clinical questions in play therapy: when does individual work hit its limits — and what changes when you bring the family into the room? We cover: ...

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Next Level Play Therapy: A Podcast for Play Therapy Excellence