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 [...]
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 [...]