Wonders Counseling Blog
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....
Ethics in Play Therapy: It’s a 3 Ring Circus!
Ethics in play therapy can be complicated. The phrase "ethical dilemma" is bound to feel overwhelming for any play therapist. Watching for all the ethical considerations in the process of providing play therapy services for children and families can feel like...
Ways to Build Healthy Family Relationships
Healthy family relationships that are consistent and predictable in the early years help children develop a strong sense of belief in self, ability to learn and grow as well as motivation and confidence to explore and express along the way. Family connections and...
Relaxing Images
There are no ads to slow down your scrolling on this blog. Receive instant feelings of peace and relief from stress by scrolling down and taking in these relaxing images and some quotes and words of wisdom in between. Self care tool here for in between the busy-ness...
Coping as a Therapist During the COVID19 Pandemic
This article is authored by one of my revered colleagues, Lauren Gaspar, LCSW-S, RPT-S who is a child and family therapist in her private practice in Austin, Texas She has significant experience addressing trauma with children ages 3 and up and taught Play Therapy...
Implementing Online Play Therapy
This article is written by contributor and guest author, Althea Simpson, MBA, LCSW, RPT-S who is experienced with providing online play therapy services and is now inspiring and helping therapists who are finding that they now must provide services online due...
Play Therapy From A Family Systems Approach
Over the last 10 years that I have provided clinical supervision for therapists working with child clients I have felt concerned to observe that many therapists graduating from masters level mental health training programs have not received enough (if any!) training...
3 Playful Ways to Help Parents & Children Connect
It's important for therapists to know how to introduce playful ways to help parents and children connect. Play is the way children explore, experience and express whatever it is they need for growth, development and healing. The first part of our work as child...
5 Creative Play Based Therapy Activities for Families
When working with children and families as a counselor, sometimes it's helpful to have some fun and creative play based activities for families to explore and experience together for the purpose of connecting and better understanding one another. Facilitating...
10 Ways for Helping Teen Girls Navigate Social Stress
The social life of an adolescent girl has always been challenging but with the dynamics and pitfalls of social media and texting apps which allow for such quick, spontaneous reactions and emotion-based expressions all this can result in escalated difficulties. It can...
4 Efficiency Hacks for Managing Administrative Time
I've written other articles about time management such as 8 Time Management Tips for Therapists and Coaches and 12 Time Management Tips for Feeling More Fulfilled. so today we are taking this concept a step further in order to provide you some efficiency hacks for...