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by Cathi Spooner, LCSW, RPT-S
Join me on Next Level Play Therapy, a podcast for child and adolescent therapists seeking to elevate your play therapy services. Hosted by Cathi Spooner, LCSW, RPT-S, at Renewing Hearts Play Therapy Training. Each episode delves into the nuances of play therapy, exploring innovative techniques, evidence-based practices, and practical strategies for providing exceptional therapeutic experiences. These engaging discussions cover a wide range of topics, including building rapport with children, how to make sure you get great outcomes for clients, therapeutic toys and tools and strategies to use in sessions, addressing trauma and attachment issues, engaging parents, promoting emotional regulation, and nurturing resilience for children and their families.Whether you're an experienced therapist looking to refine your skills or a novice clinician venturing into the world of play therapy, the Next Level Play Therapy podcast equips you with the
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- 2 days ago43 min
Play Therapy Skills Every Therapist Needs (Not Using Them Holds Clients Back)
Send us Fan Mail Play therapy skills aren't optional. Learn why a strong foundation in your play therapy model, case conceptualization, and clinical decision-making is the key to helping your child clients make real, lasting progress, including when working with children experiencing low self-esteem. In this free podcast episode, we dig into the core play therapy competencies every play therapist needs, and why skipping them may be holding your clients back. Whether you're a new p...
- 1 weeks ago43 min
You Don't Need More Play Therapy Training — You Need This Instead
Send us Fan Mail If you've been collecting play therapy trainings, accumulating CEUs, and adding to your technique toolkit — and you still walk into play therapy sessions second-guessing your clinical decisions — this episode is for you. If you’ve been secretly feeling like an imposter or not sure why your client (and you) are stuck - more information isn't what's been missing. A framework is. In this free weekly Podcast, we're challenging one of the most deeply held beliefs in the play...
- 2 weeks ago41 min
Second-guessing? / STOP
Send us Fan Mail Do you feel like a fraud as a play therapist? Imposter syndrome in play therapy is one of the most common struggles for new play therapists and child therapists, and it's usually a lie your brain is telling you. If you're overwhelmed, second-guessing every play therapy session, and worried your clients are suffering because you're not good enough, you're not alone. Every play therapist I've trained has felt this way. In this free podcast episode, you...
- 3 weeks ago47 min
Play Therapy Not Working? 4 Ways to Get Unstuck
Send us Fan Mail Is play therapy working for your client, or are you stuck in the "I don't know if this is helping" loop? In this free weekly podcast episode for play therapists and child and adolescent therapists, you'll learn 4 practical ways to tell if play therapy is working and what to do when nothing seems to help. You've tried the play therapy activity books, searched Pinterest for play therapy ideas, and used what you learned at your last play therapy training. Your ...
- Oct 15, 202648 min
Family Play Therapy: 3 Signs a Parent Is Ready (and 3 Signs They're Not)
Send us Fan Mail In family play therapy, the caregiver's readiness matters as much as the child's. Because the parent-child relationship is the vehicle for healing, a parent has to be emotionally and mentally prepared to enter their child's world without taking it over. In this free weekly podcast, we break down how to assess parent readiness for family play therapy sessions, so you can decide when to bring a caregiver into the playroom and when more preparation is needed first. You'll le...
- Oct 8, 202641 min
Family Play Therapy: Why Treating Just the Child Limits Outcomes
Send us Fan Mail If you're a play therapist or child therapist meeting with kids weekly while updating parents on the side — this episode is for you. Individual play therapy is powerful. But when the family system stays the same, even the best playroom work has a ceiling. In this free weekly podcast, we're exploring one of the most important clinical questions in play therapy: when does individual work hit its limits — and what changes when you bring the family into the room? We cover: ...
- Oct 1, 202645 min
Congruence & Co-Regulation in Play Therapy
Send us Fan Mail Congruence & Co-Regulation in Play Therapy: How Nervous System Attunement Heals Kids What does it really mean to use "therapeutic use of self" in the playroom? In this podcast episode, we go beyond the buzzwords to explore how congruence and co-regulation actually help children build their own capacity for emotion regulation. This is part three in our series on the nervous system in play therapy — and why oversimplifying this concept can get in the way of the deep, lastin...
- Sep 23, 202641 min
Window of Tolerance in Play Therapy: Why Kids "Bail" on Deep Play
Send us Fan Mail You're 20 minutes into a play therapy session. The child is in it — deep in the sandtray, the story, the metaphor. And then, without warning, they bail. Silliness. A different toy. A total tonal 180. If you've ever second-guessed yourself in that moment — wondered if you lost the thread, if they're avoiding, if the work "didn't land" — this episode is for you. That shift isn't resistance. It isn't disengagement. It's regulation happening in real time. A child's nervous system...
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About Next Level Play Therapy: A Podcast for Play Therapy Excellence
Join me on Next Level Play Therapy, a podcast for child and adolescent therapists seeking to elevate your play therapy services. Hosted by Cathi Spooner, LCSW, RPT-S, at Renewing Hearts Play Therapy Training. Each episode delves into the nuances of play therapy, exploring innovative techniques, evidence-based practices, and practical strategies for providing exceptional therapeutic experiences. These engaging discussions cover a wide range of topics, including building rapport with children, how to make sure you get great outcomes for clients, therapeutic toys and tools and strategies to use in sessions, addressing trauma and attachment issues, engaging parents, promoting emotional regulation, and nurturing resilience for children and their families.Whether you're an experienced therapist looking to refine your skills or a novice clinician venturing into the world of play therapy, the Next Level Play Therapy podcast equips you with the
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