What’s the Secret to Use Family Play Therapy Confidently?

Next Level Play Therapy: A Podcast for Play Therapy Excellence

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Usually when I suggest play therapists use family play therapy sessions, their facial expression says it all.

Anxious, surprised, overwhelmed, and sometimes amused or curious.

It makes sense when you think about it because most play therapy training is focused on individual counseling sessions and very little training is focused on how to integrate parents and family members into the play therapy process for their clients.

I think this is true for mental health treatment in general.

The thing is that children don’t exist in a vacuum and they can’t be their own therapeutic agents of change for healing.

Children and adolescents thrive best when they have secure attachment relationships and strong, healthy family support.

So, why then, do we usually spend most of our learning time ignoring this area of children’s lives in the treatment process?

Family play therapy can be a value “tool” in the “toolbox” of play therapists to facilitate lasting change within the whole family that will support the changes your clients are making.

Join me for this free weekly Podcast, I’ll discuss strategies for using family play therapy with your clients and how your clients can benefit from family play therapy as part of their treatment experience.

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1. What’s the Secret to Use Family Play Therapy Confidently? (00:00:00)

2. Intro (00:00:01)

3. Today's topic (00:00:53)

4. Start with a Strong Theoretical Framework (00:13:18)

5. Safety is Paramount (00:24:45)

6. Build Therapeutic Rapport with All Participants (00:30:26)

7. Combine Family Play Therapy with Parent Coaching (00:32:21)

8. Recap of today's discussion (00:35:39)

9. Outro (00:41:42)