When Things Don’t Go As Planned
Let’s step outside of the playroom for a moment and talk business … I spend a lot of time thinking about what it means to lead a company and a [...]
Helping Kids & Families Navigate Screen Time Balance with Stacy Jagger
We’re so excited for this topic (...it’s definitely a hot topic) and the amazing guest that is joining Lisa. Stacy Jagger is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and Registered [...]
Where We are Now as an Amazing Play Therapy Field!
Synergetic Play Therapy is celebrating 15 years 🎉 (... and Lisa is also celebrating her birthday this week 🥳) … And it’s a perfect time to reflect on this amazing field [...]
Making New Memories: Every Moment Is A New Encounter
It can be so easy to assume we’ve seen or experienced something simply because it’s familiar. And yet each encounter is never the same - you are not the same, [...]
Attunement: The Heart of the Therapeutic Relationship
Join Lisa to talk about attunement and how it is such an important part of the therapeutic relationship. But why is it that important you might ask … In our play [...]
Rachel Altvater: Perspective: How We Come to See Ourselves, Others & The World
In this next Lessons from the Playroom episode, we’re going in a totally different direction. Lisa Dion has a very special guest to talk about perspective - a topic we often [...]
How to Truly Practice Self Care
This is such a good reminder for all of us!… We know that self-care is really important. We tend to think of it as perhaps having a cup of tea, [...]
A Discussion on Reflective and Relational Play Therapy Supervision
Join Lisa Dion for a really important and special conversation about a topic that has never been discussed in this entire podcast series … It's about supervision. And not just any [...]
Ann Beckley-Forest: Working with Adoption & Attachment Trauma/Wounding
Lisa Dion’s next guest has made quite the name for herself in the world of EMDR Therapy (although this is not a conversation about EMDR Therapy, if you work with the [...]
A Gem of a Memory: A Conversation With My Daughter
By Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S To this day, I still remember a conversation I had with my daughter some years ago. We were on our way to basketball camp and Avery [...]