The Significance of Neuroscience in Play Therapy
By Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S It’s crucial to bring the brain and neuroscience into the play therapy process if we really want to understand what is happening in the mind and bodies [...]
Authenticity: The Playroom Is The Place To Be You
By Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S It happened again. I was wrapping up my two-day conference teaching play therapists all about Synergetic Play Therapy, and I cried. I cry almost every time. The [...]
The Therapist: The Most Important Toy in the Playroom
By Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S This is such an important question because the field has overemphasized the child’s process and has not emphasized the therapist’s process enough or the roll the therapist [...]
Breaking Out of the “Shoulds”
By Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S I once worked with a nine-year-old client named Joey*. He really struggled in school. He had a very focused interest on one thing/task, and everything else was [...]
Synergetic: What does it mean? Attunement, Connection, Collaboration…
Synergetic: What does it mean? Attunement, Connection, Collaboration... "When you’re working at the level that Synergetic Play Therapy works at, you’re really experiencing synergy in the playroom. It’s a deep level of [...]
Attunement: Two Hands as One
Attunement: Two Hands as One By Krista Reinhardt-Ruprecht, CMT, Art Therapist, Certified SPT Therapist In Zen Shiatsu, a form of body work based on energy meridians in the body, the practitioner uses [...]