Wonders Counseling Blog
Creative & Simple Interventions for Self-Esteem and Self-Compassion
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...
Essential Skills for Successful Tele-Play Therapy
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...
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 predicable 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...
50 Ways to Practice Self Care During COVID19 Pandemic
When I started one of my facebook groups called Therapists' Self Care Support 5 years ago, I never imagined how fast it would grow and what a rich and wonderful community would develop. Therapists from all over the world post their ideas, ponderings and sharing about...
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...
Encouraging Creative Expression & Imagination for Children & Families
Einsten, 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 expression...
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...
Parents In the Play Room LIVE WEBINAR December 9, 2019
Often play therapy is most effective when parents are involved in an adaptive and effective manner There are many ways parents can be involved with the process of play therapy but this LIVE 2 hour webinar is going to review a variety of models for having parents in...
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...
3 Career Success Skills You Need to Succeed
When you are looking to expand your career, you want to do whatever it takes to make sure that you reach your career goals as easily as you can and there are some foundational career success skills you need to succeed. Having the right skills specific to your field...
49 Ways to Care for Yourself
Planning for and taking action to care for your whole self is necessary in order to feel fulfilled and content in your life. Here are 49 self care actions you can practice care for yourself: Schedule lunch breaks and take them.Slow down when you eat. Chew your food...
Successful Private Practice: 5 Essentials
When asked recently in an interview what it takes to have a successful private practice, I found myself rattling off 5 essential elements that I know for certain must be in place. I have learned from my own years of experience building my successful private practice,...