Being You? It’s Easier Said Than Done!
By Lisa Dion LPC, RPT-S In a world where we can be anything, the best thing to be is ourselves. It seems simple; after all, being us is suppose to come naturally. [...]
Where Was Your First Playroom?
By Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S Where was your first playroom? ....Was it on a checkered sofa where you slew vicious dragons? Was it in the front yard where you deemed yourself captain [...]
Marketing Yourself as a Play Therapist
By Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S Therapy will always be about what happens inside the relationship between the client and the clinician; that’s the heart of the matter. But, therapy is also a [...]
How a Therapist’s Own Experience of Shame & Confusion Helped a Boy Recover
By Daniel Howell, Senior Child & Family Counsellor at the Australian Childhood Foundation and Certified Synergetic Play Therapist Synergetic Play Therapy™ (2008) is a researched-informed model of play therapy blending the therapeutic [...]
Sleep Issues in Kids: Why Some Children Ban the Bed
By Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S Getting children to go to sleep is often the Everest of parenthood. Kids resist, kids persist, and kids insist on another drink of water (even though 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 [...]
The Pose Begins When You Want to Leave It
By Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S You may already know this about me, but I love yoga! I do it almost every day. I love it because it helps me practice my [...]
Growth Requires Friction
By Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S In this article published in the Science of Psychotherapy magazine, Lisa talks about how growth requires friction. It requires tension points and challenge. It requires moving out [...]
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 [...]
Body Language: Why it Speaks Volumes
The body tells the truth. It is the great revealer - an integral part of the puzzle, a prominent pixel in the big picture. Too often we focus on words, believing that [...]