Play Therapy
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Play Therapy at Home: Day 13 Teenagers and Feelings
I realize it’s been a long time since I’ve written. Life happens and you have to make room for it. In the time that has gone by, though I have some new things…
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Play Therapy at Home, Day 12: Parent with PTSD
I have been thinking about this topic for a while. My counseling practice tends to run in themes. Sometimes a majority of my clients are dealing with loss, sometimes domestic violence, and lately…
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Play Therapy at Home, Day 11: Fear and Loss
I have been thinking a lot about loss this week. Not only are some of your families dealing with loss in various ways, Fort Stewart lost more soldiers this week in Afghanistan. I…
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Play Therapy at Home, Day 10: Anxiety
This is the half way mark! It’s hard to believe, it has been such a wonderful journey- and easier than I thought. In fact, the hardest part is finding the time to blog…
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Play Therapy at Home, Day 9: Distracted, Games for Attention Building
I know I’m not the only one who has a child that struggles with attention. As we approach the first week of school in two weeks, I know what’s coming. The first month,…
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Play Therapy at Home, Day 8: Drawing
I held off as long as I could before doing drawing. Drawing is one of the easiest things you can do with your child and in play therapy! Today was a day of…
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Play Therapy at Home, Day 7: Sand
Well, I tried to coordinate “sand day” for the beach- but then I guess it’s a good thing that it didn’t work out that way because not everyone reading this has access to…
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Play Therapy at Home, Day 6: Story Time
I love story time. To be honest, I have gotten away from it a little. I used to be so good at laying down with my children at night and listening to them…
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Play Therapy at Home, Day 5: Play Dough
Raise your hand if you love Play Dough!!! ME!!! It is the perfect rainy day activity (yes, we are still drowning here). This time, Jack was the first to mention it so I…
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Play Therapy at Home, Day 4: Games that Teach
The sun peaked through the clouds today for about an hour and I think every kid in the neighborhood came out to see it. That’s probably not true- the parents probably threw them…
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Play Therapy at Home, Day 3: Pick up Sticks
I’ll be honest. We’ve been on vacation for 2 weeks and the last part of it has been staying at home. A majority of our time during these two weeks have been…
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Day 2: Storytelling With a Twist
My idea behind doing these 20 days of play therapy is to show you that you can do everyday activities with your little one that also give you insight into some of their…
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Day One: Part 2, Painting
So after my failed attempt to lovingly serve my boys a turkey sandwich with acceptance and unconditional positive regard, we cleared off the table for painting. I personally love painting with kids. It’s…
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Play Therapy: Day One The Basics
There is nothing like being excited to start a new project to benefit all the other stay-at-home moms of the world and then be completely humbled by the frustration of little people with…