Wonders Counseling Blog
Why Provide Play Therapy as a Career?
So you're thinking about making a career out of providing play therapy services? See if this is a good fit for you below! You might want to build a play therapy career if you meet the following criteria:You are in touch with your inner child and you understand...
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Procrastination Prevention for Private Practice Success
In the Play Therapy Practice Building Academy, my MasterMind groups and in private consultation sessions I tell helping professionals who are wanting to build their private practice that procrastination is just a fancy word for avoiding that which we most need to do....
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Success Setting Exercise for Your Life and Career
You have to see it, feel it, and name it to claim it. You don't only want to work a job if you're reading my blog. You want a true professional career and I am going to bet that means you want a well-rounded life as well. Your life can be created and developed using a...
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10 Ways to Use Balloons with Children & Families
One of my favorite things is to come up with creative, fun resources for therapists to use with children and families in sessions that don't break the bank. Today we are going to go through a list of 10 ways to use balloons with children and families because balloons...
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Use What Irritates You to Inspire You
In a previous article I share with you a method for how you can be a client magnet and I want to expand on that basic idea in this week's article to talk more about how what you focus on is what you attract and what you spend time thinking about is what will expand....
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Therapist in the Spotlight! Growing a Play Therapy Private Practice
This week I'm thrilled to feature TWO incredible therapists in the spotlight! Kim Martinez and Mattie Warren! I've had the pleasure of working with both of these amazing therapists in different capacities and this week I want to honor the great work they are both...
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Combating the Perfection Trap in Private Practice
This week's focus is to help private practitioners to climb out of the sticky wicket of perfectionism in order to get away from the crippling effects of this anxiety about never feeling good enough. I want to provide some actionable tips for combatingg the perfection...
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Therapist Spotlight: A Labor of Love
Meyleen Velasquez, LCSW, PMH-C, RPT-S, is in the Therapist Spotlight this week! She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Registered Play Therapist Supervisor, FirstPlay® Supervisor, and Certified in Perinatal Mental Health. She serves as the Chair for...
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5 Mindfulness Games for Children & Teens
The practice of being present with full attention is one we all will benefit from. When we are working with children it can be helpful to have some play-based ways of introducing and reinforcing mindfulness skills. I offer a 2 hour recorded training for therapists...
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Mindfulness Meditation Changes Your Brain for the Better
People who regularly practice mindfulness meditation can attest to the positive effects of increasing calm, reducing stress and enhancing ability to develop insight on one’s life. Now, we have ample research to back up the positive impact meditation has. Dr....
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Therapist Spotlight: A Seasoned and Thriving Play Therapist’s Career Story
This week we are shining the therapist spotlight on Jamie Lynn Langley, LCSW, RPT, a seasoned play therapist with over 30 years working with child clients. She worked for an agency for 27 years where she became very well known in the area for her clinical services and...
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3 Resources for Play Therapy With Trauma
I hear a lot of therapists asking for resources for using play therapy with trauma. I decided to do some deep digging into my files and I had conversations with several of my revered colleagues who specialize in working with trauma. While this short resource list is...
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Resources for Child Centered and Directive Play Therapy in the Play Room
I recently led a live webinar now available as a recorded training called Bridging and Blending Non-Directive & Directive Play Therapy and as I explain at the beginning of that training I am passionate about operating from a prescriptive approach in order to...
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Therapist’s Spotlight: Diversity in Play Therapy
Kadesha Adelakun, LCSW, RPT-S, is an advocate for diversity and has known since she was in high school that she wanted to be a child therapist and wanted to have a private practice. She provided in-home therapy for many years with various agencies when she began to...
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Therapist Spotlight: Time Management Makes The Practice Thrive
Andrea Heston M.S., LMFT, RPT, has always had the passion to work with children. She decided to leave her former career as a restaurant manager to become a counselor. From the moment she began her graduate school program, she felt a pull toward play therapy and never...
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Therapist Spotlight: From Teacher to Therapist
This week, I had the pleasure to speak with Missy Riddles, LPC, in our Therapist Spotlight. Missy was a classroom teacher before transitioning to a play therapist. She achieved her Licensed Professional Counselor license in August 2018. Then two and half months later,...
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Offering Group Play Therapy in Your Private Practice
Play therapy with groups of children can be a powerful modality for growth and healing. Much of the research done to demonstrate efficacy of play therapy has been with groups of children. Many children benefit from being able to participate in group play therapy....
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Therapist Spotlight: Growing A Private Practice that Runs Like Clockwork
Each week, I like to feature a play therapist who has built an inspiring career providing play therapy in private practice in order to inspire other therapists who are just beginning the practice building process. I am also on a mission to continue building the...
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