Keeping the Connection When a Child Wants to Leave
By Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S From frogs inside of pockets to the darndest things they say, children are full of surprises. In many ways, this is wonderful: they make us laugh and [...]
Body Image: How You Can Help Your Child Develop a Healthy Relationship with Food
By Chelsea Hester In a world that is populated with diets, food advertisements, and models of only certain shapes and colors, children of all ages are being bombarded by external messages about [...]
Teaming with Teachers – Working With a Client’s School
Teaming with Teachers - Working With a Client's School By Judith Norman, MA, MS, LPC, RPT-S Have you tried working with a client’s school and found it challenging? If so, you are not [...]
Help Your Child Overcome Nameless Anxiety
Help Your Child Overcome Nameless Anxiety By Annie Brook, Ph.D. Children share their emotional and body-based experiences in an attempt to integrate life events; including experiences in utero, at birth and post birth. These [...]
An Antidote to anxiety? Predictability
An Antidote to anxiety? Predictability By Jessica Schaffer One of the main sources of heightened anxiety in all of us is our unknown futures. Of course we can’t predict our futures, but [...]
Balancing the Left Brain & the Right Brain in Play Therapy
Balancing the Left Brain & the Right Brain in Play Therapy By Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S Play therapy is very much a right-brain experience. When a child is playing, their right brain [...]
How Therapists Deal with Aggression in the Playroom
How Therapists Deal with Aggression in the Playroom By Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S In our culture, aggression tends to be viewed as a no-no. When a child starts to play aggressively in [...]
Are You Missing Something in Your Sandbox?
by Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-S While not for every client or therapist, sand can calls to us and draws us in. Something about it seems to grab us and touch the depths [...]
How To Use the Bop Bags in the Play Therapy Playroom
How To Use the Bop Bags in the Play Therapy Playroom By Lisa Dion, LPC, RPT-ÂS Some play therapists believe bop bags promote aggression in children, while others believe they're an essential [...]