Wonders Counseling Blog
Therapy Activities for Kids
Therapy Activities for Kids. Those four words were what I plugged into the search box when I was looking for free and low cost resources for my weekly resource newsletter for therapists that goes out to therapists all over the world. If you have been following me for...
The Midlife Self-Discovery Workbook
I am thrilled to announce the publication of my new work called The Midlife Self-Discovery Workbook! I am most well known for my work with children and families providing play therapy and my contributions to the field of play therapy as a trainer, supervisor,...
The Creative Process of Books and Products
I had the honor of getting to know Tammi Van Hollander in 2018 and 2019 and I have followed her work in the world of Child Therapy and Play Therapy very closely. I was thrilled to get to speak with her recently about her experience with the creative process of books...
Books for Play Therapy Techniques and Interventions
In this article, I am providing a short list of some of my favorite books for play therapy techniques and interventions you can use with child clients. This is not at all a comprehensive list! But you will find a lot of great information in these I am listing. I hope...
Recommended Books About Treating Anxiety Disorders
This is a very short list of some of my recommended books about treating anxiety disorders. OCD, Trichotillomania, Selective Mutism and Separation Anxiety Disorder are some of the tough anxiety disorders I have treated over the past 20 years. In my consultations with...
Recommended Books About Treating Trauma
While hardly a comprehensive list, I have compiled a list of my own top 5 books that recommend every therapist acquire and READ cover to cover. You'll find these to be tremendous resources. You will want to add these to your collection of books about treating trauma...
Encouraging Creative Expression & Imagination for Children & Families
Albert Einstein, one of the greatest minds in history, knew that we all do well to go beyond the limitations of what we have learned and know for certain in order to continue expanding and exploring the limitless possibilities of life itself. Encouraging creative...
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 explained at the beginning of that training I am passionate about operating from a prescriptive approach in order to...
Therapy For Heavy Alcohol Drinkers and Substance Addicts
Guest author and expert Jack Petti is the Chief Executive Officer at Renaissance Recovery Center, one of the best rehabs in...
Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze? Things I’ve learned as a Business Owner
I've been a business owner since 1994. My businesses prior to 2007 were fruitful and full of learning. But the past 14 years of being a mental health business owner have been particularly ripe with lessons I'd love to share with you. It's been a year of really...
8 Resources for Directive Play Therapy Activities
Are you looking for inspiration, ideas and resources for directive play therapy activities? This article will bring you just that! Let's look at 8 resources you can use to expand your tool kit for ways to playfully help your child clients. Pssst! One of my own streams...
Building a Business in Play Therapy
If you want to learn the keys to building a business in play therapy, you might want to learn from people who have had success in doing that very thing. I believe in creating multiple streams of revenue.One of my streams of revenue is partnering with other businesses...
51 Simple Self Care Practices
Simple self care practices that become regular daily habits have proven to be essential to helping the helping professionals be nourished and whole. When I started a facebook group to focus on self care for psychotherapists 6 years ago called Therapists' Self Care...
Learning from Liana Lowenstein
My own first experience learning from Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW, CPT-S was about 15 years ago or so when she traveled from her home in Canada to my home state of Georgia to provide play therapy training through a local child advocacy center. It was the very early...
Treatment Trichotillomania using Play Therapy Techniques
It is important that therapists who work with children & adolescents with Trichotillomania – a type of Body-Focused Repetitive Behavior (BRFB) otherwise known as “hair pulling disorder” – understand the potential causes as well as treatment for Trichotillomania....
Deepening Family Bonds Through Creative & Expressive Interventions
Welcome! Through this blog, I seek to provide educational and support resources for mental health professionals and anyone interested in personal and professional growth and healing! Some of the resources I provide contain affiliate partnership links that help fund...
Bringing Nature Play into Telehealth
Welcome! Through this blog, I seek to provide educational and support resources for mental health professionals and anyone interested in personal and professional growth and healing! Some of the resources I provide contain affiliate partnership links that help fund...
EMDR Informed Body+Brain Play Therapy Techniques
Welcome! Through this blog, I seek to provide educational and support resources for mental health professionals and anyone interested in personal and professional growth and healing! Some of the resources I provide contain affiliate partnership links that help fund...