Resources and Links to Advance Your Practice
By Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S It may not come as surprise that the most requested topics people asked me to talk about last year was why regulation doesn’t mean “calm” and how [...]
Why We Can’t Just Start Over In The New Year
By Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S I’ve often reflected on how we tend to rush into the next year … with little thought about the year before. I hear a lot of common [...]
Discovering the Gift of Challenge
By Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S Many of us are taught to believe that somehow life would be "better" if we could get rid of or minimize the challenges that we experience [...]
Spring Cleaning Your Playroom: Don’t Throw Away the Broken
By Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S Spring (or even Fall if you reside in a country in the Southern hemisphere 😉) comes with many things - longer days, warmer weather, blooming trees and [...]
Tragedy: Why No One-Emotion-Fits-All
by Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S Most of us think of tragedy as being synonymous with sorrow. And, indeed, this is true a large part of the time: tragedy is sad. But it [...]
How a Parent’s Value of Play Therapy Can Influence their Child’s Value of Play Therapy
By Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S Working with parents in the playroom is an important topic. Parents, after all, are the ones who usually initiate play therapy – they schedule the sessions, they [...]
Overcoming Fatigue in Teletherapy
By Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S From learning how to connect with a child through a computer screen, engaging parents in new ways, and incorporating more directive play than perhaps many are used [...]
Nature Nurtures: Why the Great Outdoors are Good for Kids
by Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S From tree forts to snowball fights, playing outside is a rite of passage for children. They wear skinned elbows, burnt noses, and dirt between their toes like [...]
Absorbing SpongeBob: Does Childhood Have Space for Technology?
by Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S Technology in childhood is an often debated subject with the pro Pac-Man crowd facing off against those who suggest shutting down the iPad and turning off the [...]
From Kids to Animals: The Power of Play
by Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S In many ways, it’s easy to see why children play. It’s fun, it makes them happy, and it allows them to imagine possibilities real life may not [...]