Play-Based Healing with Children and Adolescents
Margaret Blaustein, Lou Bergholz and Dafna Lender present a magical morning of learning, collaboration, and play! Children all need to feel safe in order to... Read more
The Racial Trauma Treatment Protocol: A 12-Session CBT Approach for Therapists Working with Racial Wounds
Racial stress and trauma are common presentations in therapy…and the number of clients needing treatment is only expected to grow. But there are few... Read more
Embodiment, Theater and Using Shakespeare to Organize Traumatized Minds and Bodies
One of the most effective ways to create transformative moments is through play--interactive, face-to-face, reciprocal, cooperative interactions that rely on... Read more
The Racial Trauma Treatment Protocol: A 12-Session CBT Approach for Therapists Working with Racial Wounds
Racial stress and trauma are common presentations in therapy…and the number of clients needing treatment is only expected to grow. But there are few... Read more
ADHD & Couples Therapy
By the time couples struggling with ADHD come to your office their relationship is a tangled mess. Each partner blames the other and both feel... Read more
Time Management & Executive Functioning Strategies for Adults with ADHD
Often adult ADHD clients’ poor time management negatively impacts therapy… They’re late for sessions, struggling to anticipate rewards or... Read more
VIDEO: How 2 Lessons from Improv Can Make You a Better Therapist
A Conversation with Michael AlcéeNetworker talks with Michael Alcée as he offers powerful strategies drawn from the field of improv that will help you find your voice while navigating the... Read more
Comprehensive DSM-5-TR™ Updates: New Diagnoses, Coding Changes & Cultural Considerations
Neglecting new diagnoses, making coding errors & culturally insensitive language faux pas can be time-consuming, frustrating & cause you to lose... Read more
Big Behaviors in Small Containers: Trauma Informed Play Therapy Interventions for Dysregulation
When it comes to working with children, sometimes the biggest behaviors come in the smallest containers. Sometimes these behaviors are externalizing... Read more
Creating a Safe Haven for Families in the Playroom to Rest, Refuel and Replenish
Helping families learn how to repair, restore, and create secure attachment happens as they come into the play therapy room for the first time. Parents... Read more
Affirming Play Therapy Approaches - The Agent of Change for Neurodivergent Kids
Neurodivergent children (autistic, ADHD, learning differences, sensory differences) represent a unique and large part of the population of children that... Read more
The Healing Power of Community
A Conversation with Shawna Murray-BrowneNetworker talks with Shawna Murray-Browne about ways to bridge racial barriers in and outside of the therapy room. Read more
The Power of Play: Promoting an IntraConnected Relational Experience of Self
In this recording, the science of the experience of self, identity and belonging will be explored. This session will examine the extremes of the independent... Read more
Tele-Play the Preschool Way! Interactive Play Therapy Interventions for Engaging Young Children
In this recording, view Preschool Play Therapist, Amy Nelson, as she reveals a detailed blueprint for designing effective tele-play therapy sessions with... Read more
Virtual Sandtray: Remaining Connected Through a Powerful Projective Intervention
Digital natives have been flooding your caseload with interests and ideas that might leave you wondering about how to engage clients. Speaking the... Read more
Sand Therapy: A Powerful Tool to Create Safety and Healing for Trauma, Anxiety & More
Sand therapy is a powerful neurobiological approach to treating children, teens and families with trauma, anxiety, and attachment issues. In this 90-minute... Read more
Superheroes and Video Games: Creating Epic Adventures in Child & Adolescent Therapy
Video games can transport us to worlds beyond our imagination. A board game can send us on an epic adventure and fulfilling side quests, while the origin... Read more
Creating Diversity in the Practice of Play Therapy: More Than Color, More Than Gender
Conventional thinking around culture and diversity often focuses on aspects like skin color and sexual identity, excluding aspects of formed social, cultural... Read more
Applying Polyvagal Theory to Your Play Therapy Practice for Safety, Connection & Healing
The brain-body connection inherent in trauma is often challenging for us as adults…and applying this knowledge can be overwhelming, especially in a... Read more
Schema Therapy Strategies: Treat Hypersexual Narcissism, Trauma, Gaslighting, Shame & Attachment Wounds
It can be uncomfortable for you… but it’s essential for therapy… When working your narcissistic clients you likely encounter shame... Read more
Pathways to Attachment Security in Play Therapy
Secure attachment in early life is the gold standard for buffering a person against adversity throughout life. One of the appealing qualities of play... Read more
EMDR & Play Therapy: A Multimodal Approach for Children
EMDR therapy is a powerful evidence-based approach for children. However, the use of EMDR therapy procedural steps require that we make them developmentally... Read more
Creative Interventions for Engaging Resistant Children in Play Therapy: "I Don't Want to Talk About it"
The challenge of working with children can be further compounded by their fear of entering therapy, their lack of control over the decision to attend therapy... Read more
ADHD in the Family: Interventions for Parents at Home & in the Classroom
Parenting becomes that much harder for your clients who have ADHD. And, when these parents have children diagnosed with ADHD or a partner with ADHD&hellip... Read more
The Tapping Toolbox
Sometimes the key to feeling better is knowing where to tap. Rooted within energy psychology, tapping is a mind-body technique used to treat a range of... Read more
Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery
Trauma recovery is as much about healing the body as it is the mind. Yet, so often, the focus of healing involves retelling the story of the past without... Read more
ADHD at Work: Strategies to Help Clients Survive & Thrive in Their Careers
Your clients show up late to session, seem to forget skills taught the week before and struggle to stay on track with treatment goals. Unfortunately, these... Read more
Two-Spirit Clients: Clinical Interventions for Culturally Competent Care
Gender- and sexual orientation-based violence at the hands of colonizers has been a lived experience for the Indigenous people of the North American continent... Read more
The CBT Toolbox for Young Adults
As young adults strive to create their own identities, they need to learn how to express themselves in meaningful ways, form relationships, adjust to changing... Read more
May/June 2022: Rediscovering Play: Are You and Your Clients Having Fun?
This issue looks at the field play therapy, including play therapy’s benefits and potential pitfalls. One article examines how incorporating play and humor... Read more

