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E32. Play as an Attachment Need with Clair Mellenthin, LCSW, RPT-S

E32. Play as an Attachment Need with Clair Mellenthin, LCSW, RPT-S

Update: 2025-03-11
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Welcome back for the next journey of The Family Express Podcast with Kathryn de Bruin, LMFT and Ronda Evans, LMFT where our destination is resilient and connected families. Our guest speaker is Clair Mellenthin, a licensed clinical social worker and registered play therapist supervisor in Utah. Today we are talking with Clair about play as an attachment need and attachment based play therapy integrated with EFFT. Thank you for listening! 


Kathryn de Bruin is an ICEEFT Certified EFT Trainer. Kathryn and Ronda are both licensed marriage and family therapists, EFT supervisors and therapists, and AAMFT Approved Supervisors.

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E32. Play as an Attachment Need with Clair Mellenthin, LCSW, RPT-S

E32. Play as an Attachment Need with Clair Mellenthin, LCSW, RPT-S

Kathryn De Bruin and Ronda Evans