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Tips for Maximizing Results Using Play Therapy to Heal Trauma · Next Level Play Therapy: A Podcast for Play Therapy Excellence

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  Welcome to Next Level Play Therapy.
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  A weekly podcast dedicated to supporting the next generation of child and adolescent therapists to provide exceptional play therapy services.
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  We'll explore all things play therapy to elevate your work with children and adolescents using the therapeutic powers of play.
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  I'll discuss practical tips and ideas so you can provide a transformative experience for your young clients and make a real difference in their lives.
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  So get ready to take your play therapy skills to the next level and make a lasting impact in the lives of children, adolescents, and families.
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  Welcome to this week's episode of Next Level Play Therapy.
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  Today I wanna talk about some tips or things to think about to overcome some mistakes that I see pretty happen pretty often in the play therapy process.
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  And I would say these mistakes are ones that we all make if we've been in the field.
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  Doesn't matter if you're brand new getting started or if you've been in the child and adolescent field for a while play therapy for a while.
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  I think we all tend to, I call these traps or this is a trap, and I wanna talk about what is really gonna be a more important focus to help your traumatized clients heal.
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  And that's really what I wanna focus on today.
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  Overcoming, helping your client overcome that, the impact of trauma.
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  And so let's get started for today.
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  So if you're watching live, I would love to know who's here.
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  Post your name in the comments, especially also if you're watching on the replay.
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  I would still love to know who's watching.
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  I know a lot of people do watch on the replay and, uh, for the video on YouTube or LinkedIn.
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  Also in my Facebook group.
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  Hello Facebook group peeps.
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  Um, so post your name in the comments.
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  What population do you work with?
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  Are you working with traumatized clients right now?
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  What are some of the specific things that you find happen when you're, some things that you end up really needing to address when you're working with traumatized children and teens, and what play therapy modality are you using?
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  Those of you watch are listening on the podcast welcome also.
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  Um, I would love to hear your thoughts and feedback.
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  So if you're listening on the podcast, I'd love it if you'd pop over and leave a review.
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  What is helpful, and also for those of you who are watching, if you're watching on LinkedIn, feel free to connect with me.
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  I'd love to chat more.
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  If you're watching in my Facebook group, you can comment in my Facebook group and then also I'm on Instagram.
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  For those of you watching on Instagram, then leave me a, uh, send me a DM or post a comment.
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  So what are.
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  Um, what, what are the mistakes I find, and I think one of the biggest mistakes that happens when you are working in play therapy and in particular this time, I would say trauma.
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  I think sometimes we get into that trap of thinking that I just need better play therapy activities.
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  I just need to know what kind of activities I can use in the playroom.
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  And don't get me wrong, I am a play therapist.
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  I love learning about activities and the newest and latest activities.
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  I think, you know, that's how we help our clients access those therapeutic powers of play for healing.
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  Right.
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  The thing is though, if that's your focus, then the likelihood you are going to feel like at some point in, usually in the, like really in the change process, you start feeling a little lost.
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  Like you don't know if what you're doing is helping, you're still getting the phone calls from parents or caregivers that their child is struggling, it's not going well.
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  They're telling you all of the things that are going wrong and you are feel, you're starting to doubt yourself, like maybe you don't know what you're doing, maybe you are horrible.
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  Maybe even you should get out of the profession.
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  Or you start to second guess yourself.
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  After the sessions, you start thinking, oh my gosh.
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  Well, I shouldn't have done that.
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  Oh, I messed it up.
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  Oh, I've made just the biggest mistake ever.
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  Uh, I've just ruined the whole play therapy process.
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  And the reason those things tend to happen is a couple of things.
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  And I would say the, the biggest one is what I wanna talk about today.
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  And, um, here's the thing, one of the things that there, there was a, uh, a study done a while back, and this was in the psychotherapy networker, and I forgot exactly what the name of the article was.
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  I've posted it in, I've even talked about it in previous live streams.
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  You might have to go back a couple years.
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  Um, maybe we'll post that one.
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  Put a link so that you can find it easily.
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  But here, here was the thing, the psychotherapy network, they were talking about burnout and what, so they wanted to talk with the experts in the field, the, the therapy masters, so to speak, and what helped them not to get burned out.
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  So this is, this is my take on the article and my paraphrase on the article.
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  Because I found it really powerful and I thought, oh my gosh, it just validates everything I've been saying for years.
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  Um, and that is when they were focused on burnout, but what they found was, for these therapy masters, the experts in the field who get amazing treatment outcomes for their clients, what they found was these experts start with the end in mind.
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  And what I mean by that is they look at, they conceptualize what needs to happen from start to finish, so they kind of go in holding that framework possibility of what needs to happen through each stage of the change process.
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  So they're already starting to think about what needs to happen.
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  And to me, the, the only way you can do that is if you have an actual framework.
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  You have a framework that you're using.
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  And to me, that's one of the first things to think about is what framework are you using rather than over focusing on what play therapy activities is actually gonna make the difference.
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  Like this if I just find the right play therapy activity, that's gonna unlock everything.
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  Well, maybe it will and you'll get a lot more, um, positive outcomes you'll make.
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  I think you make a bigger impact if you actually have a framework that you're using.
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  Focus on the framework and then you'll figure out what activities are gonna work where.
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  And so what do I mean by using a framework?
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  So your play therapy framework is basically the play therapy model that you're using to help your clients navigate through every stage of the change process.
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  Your, your case conceptualization is also part of that process, and your case conceptualization is gonna be influenced by your play therapy model.
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  So you start with your case conceptualization, and I've talked about this in previous episodes.
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  So, um, if you're really interested in this topic, you can definitely go back and watch some of those previous episodes.
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  Case conceptualization is basically what exactly is activating the problem and what are the patterns that are sustaining it.
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  So what are the patterns you see in your client?
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  Maybe you know, what activates it, when does it get activated?
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  When is it not activated?
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  What happens when it gets activated?
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  And then also patterns include the relationship patterns within that family system, including that parent child relationship or caregiver relationship, and how do caregivers respond.
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  So all of that information, you wanna make sure you're gathering all of the information at that very first session.
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  You wanna make sure you're gathering it because that information is what you're going to use to create the foundation of your case conceptualization to get started, and then you're going to continue to assess through each stage of the change process.
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  So you use all that information to formulate your initial case conceptualization or your working hypothesis.
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  I'm holding this working hypothesis based on the information that I've gathered.
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  Based on my play therapy theoretical model.
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  And I am gonna use that to help me with my clinical decision making of what am I gonna do in this session?
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  What am I, when am I, when am I going to do it?
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  At which stage am I gonna do it?
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  How are caregivers gonna be involved in the process?
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  What exactly is that going to look like?
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  Who can be involved and who's probably not a good idea to be involved?
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  At the beginning, maybe there's work that you need to do in order to get that caregiver involved.
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  All of these things are what you're going to be considering as part of your ongoing decision making process, and it's going to be grounded in your play therapy model.
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  That's your framework.
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  Your framework is your play therapy model that tells you.
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  Okay.
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  In the beginning of this process, we do this and then in the change process we do this because we're conceptualizing the problem is due to these factors.
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  So to fix that, then we're going to use this strategy.
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  So that's what happens is when people overfocus on the activities, then what happens is they start, I call it the spaghetti against the wall strategy.
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  They start thinking, you know, oh my gosh, that one didn't work, so I'm gonna use this one.
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  And then they start kind of throwing all these strategies in the session, so to speak, using strategies kind of indiscriminately, figuring out activities to use indiscriminately.
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  And then finding that you are, it's kind of like the hamster on the gerbil wheel.
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  You're going nowhere fast, but you're working really, really hard, and then you end up getting tired, overwhelmed, mentally exhausted.
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  And frustrated starting to second guess yourself and doubt your capabilities.
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  And then what I find is more effective is to take a step back and then think about your case conceptualization and your play therapy model, and what does it say to do in the sessions, and then choose your activities based on that.
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  That being said, all of that, um, if you're using child-centered play therapy, then that is, if strict child-centered play therapy, then you are just gonna follow the model because you're not choosing activities.
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  You are just following.
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  Not just, but you're following your client's lead, using the model.
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  Your model influences the way in which you show up and what that intervention, so to speak, looks like, meaning you are following, you are not leading, but you're also using tracking statements.
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  And your way of being in the session is really, really important.
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  So, so then.
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  The model that I like to use, excuse me.
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  When I'm working with children and adolescents who experience trauma, I love using a neuroscience and attachment lens.
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  I think it gives us so much information to understand children's behavior and what might have happened.
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  For that behavior to occur, what might have activated that behavior?
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  Now, keep in mind when you are working with children, humans, let's just say children, adolescents, parents, adults, when you're working with humans, they're complex, right?
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  Humans are complex beings.
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  So, there's that whole nature and nurture component.
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  Meaning what is their, what is their default wiring, so to speak, like their personality style, their, their introvert versus extrovert.
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  Are they, um, highly sensitive?
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  Are they not?
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  All some of these kind of wiring personality traits.
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  And then there's also the nature part, which is experiences that have occurred that influence their behaviors, their beliefs about themselves, their beliefs about others, their beliefs about relationships.
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  This, so we, we've got decades of neuroscience and attachment research to help us understand that.
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  And I, that's one of the reasons, like when I do trainings.
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  Including like a trauma training.
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  So I have a trauma training, a training about using play therapy with traumatized children and teens that's coming up.
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  So I'm gonna talk about that a little bit more at the end.
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  So if you're interested in taking a training to help you use a neuroscience and attachment framework, then you're definitely gonna wanna stick around till the end and I'll tell you a little bit more about that.
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  When I do my trainings, I like to use a neuroscience and attachment lens, and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna, I'm gonna walk you through the neuroscience and attachment information and what the research says so that we can package all of that in our case conceptualization.
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  And then we're going to use a play therapy framework that will integrate neuroscience and attachment to help us figure out what to do in each stage of the change process.
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  So the thing you wanna do is, when you, so I like to do that because when I'm working that, that kind of helps you in the beginning when we formalize and begin your case conceptualization.
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  So when we get to the actual framework and we walk through it and we do all the activities, then you're gonna have a framework to know what you're gonna do throughout each stage of the change process.
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  And then you can plug in those activities and then when, not if it's really about how often and when, and then how do you get back out of it.
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  When you get a little lost or frustrated or feel like nothing's working, then you can take a step back, go back to your case conceptualization using neuroscience and attachment theory and like mentalization, polyvagal, all of those things.
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  We go back to that and then figure out, okay, what is my what does my theoretical model say about these things that are going on?
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  So when you start getting the phone calls from the caregiver saying nothing's working and they're still struggling, then you're not gonna start second guessing yourself.
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  You're gonna take a step back and you think, okay, here's what they're reporting based on my model, here's what I think needs to happen, and then that's gonna influence your decision making about what to do next.
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  Y your play therapy model is really, your framework is what guides you.
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  The theoretical underpinnings of that are how you're gonna make sense of what the problem is, as well as what type of activities and interventions you need in order to heal trauma.
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  So for example, if you are so using an inte, so I, when I'm using neuroscience and attachment theory, then I'm going to use more of an integrated model.
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  So using an integrative play therapy model means you are blending two or more theoretical models together, and I talked a lot about this last week in the livestream last week, or if you're listening to the podcast, it'll be the podcast last week.
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  What that means when you're using an integrative model.
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  And so if you're using an integrative model, you're, you're blending two or more theoretical models together.
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  So your case conceptualization is going to be influenced by those specific models.
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  And then what you do in each session is also going to be influenced by those theoretical models.
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  So for example, let's say you are blending, you're using an integrative model and you're using Somatic Experiencing and EMDR, and maybe you've got a little IFS in there, right?
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  These are more of the kind of, um, popular trauma approaches that we are now integrating into play therapy.
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  So how do you do that if you are, if you're in, you're integrating that?
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  Well, if you're integrating them, you're taking the theory underneath of those, those are all kind of neurosciencey, uh, and attachment oriented models and you're blending those together, and then that's gonna influence how are you making sense of what the problem is, right?
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  EMDR has certain protocols that you're gonna follow, and what would that look like?
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  So maybe if you're using more of an EMDR approach, and then maybe you're blending in a little IFS in there, having them work on doing some parts work that's going to influence what you're doing in the sessions.
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  So, or maybe you're using more of a trauma-focused CBT model and you're blending in some polyvagal theory, which means you're gonna be working a little bit on helping them getting tuned with their body and where are they experiencing things and then helping them to, to regulate their nervous system and that, that, do that, get back into maybe dorsal vagal so that they can feel safe.
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  Sorry, ventral vagal, not dorsal, vagal.
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  Um, so they can feel safe.
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  Or how do they tell if their sympathetic system is activated?
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  How do they tell that in their body?
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  Right?
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  So these are the theories that you're using, and if you're integrating these, then you're thinking about what those theory models say.
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  And you are thinking about like trauma focused, CBT will have a, that has a structured approach, tells you what you're gonna do in each stage, and then if you're blending in some polyvagal, maybe you're using that information in this stage, maybe the beginning stage of trauma-focused CBT, what types of interventions would you choose?
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  So the, the thing is, you are not just, it's not just random.
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  It's not just pulling out activities.
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  You're thinking about your theory model and what your theory model says about what's going on.
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  Why is your client getting activated and what stage, what each stage of the change process looks like, so that when you are choosing your interventions, you're gonna know where to plug those in.
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  So like that's why I like in the beginning, I really like to focus on that case conceptualization part in the beginning where we go through what attachment theory looks like, interpersonal, neurobiology, polyvagal, mentalization.
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  What does all of that mean?
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  And how does that impact and explain what's going on with my client and then I'm gonna use that information with my play therapy framework that's gonna guide me through each step of the change process.
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  So that to me is the key.
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  Having that framework is the key.
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  I. And understanding that your, your framework is your play therapy model or your integrated play therapy model still means it's theory based and your theory is gonna influence how you make sense of what's going on with your client and their trauma.
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  Explain helping you identify trauma triggers.
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  Um, what do they need to settle down their nervous systems, helping them to reprocess and overcome the impact of that traumatic experience to where they can thrive and grow.
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  'Cause that's the goal, is that post-traumatic growth.
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  And how are you integrating caregivers?
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  In that process, because when your theory, my, like I use a neuroscience and attachment approach, so we're thinking interpersonal neurobiology as well.
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  That means I'm also thinking about their relationship, my client's relationships, or maybe that child's parent.
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  How can I integrate that parent into the change process?
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  Can I integrate that parent and what exactly is that gonna look like?
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  Because maybe my client is in foster care and they're not living with their biological parents.
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  Um, or maybe they're living with another relative, maybe an older relative who uses old school parenting and doesn't, uh, doesn't buy into the new, the new way of parenting.
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  And so what does that look like?
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  What, what does that dynamic between that child and that caregiver, and how can we help caregivers be part of the healing?
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  Because that's where the long term healing is gonna be sustained in their environment with the people in their lives long after they're not in counseling with you anymore.
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  So that is it for today.
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  Let me just go through and do a little recap.
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  Today we're really focusing on why play therapy playing and activities in play therapy aren't really enough to heal trauma that we really need to focus on what framework you're using.
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  So, um, in your framework also, you are thinking about also your relationship.
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  Of course, we wanna make sure it's always three things, right?
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  The way that I look at it.
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  The relationship is key.
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  First and foremost, you've got to establish safety.
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  I talked about that in a, um, episode two weeks ago.
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  So if you're interested in that, then you may wanna go back and listen to that episode two weeks ago.
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  I've talked about it in a bunch of other episodes as well.
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  So you may be interested in watching some of the other episodes.
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  This week I really wanna focus on, so there's the three things, right?
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  There's.
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  There's relationship, your framework, and then keeping up the way that I look at it, keeping up with what the latest research says and what's going on.
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  What are the trends going on?
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  And some trends are good.
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  Some trends sometimes aren't always so good.
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  And I think, um, this is where research can help out, where we kind of look and see what's working and why is it working.
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  So today is really about focusing on what framework are you using rather than trying to get the latest activities.
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  Focusing too much on the activities.
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  We're balancing that out.
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  Activities with your framework, you wanna learn the framework first because your framework is what guides you through each stage of the change process.
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  It's gonna influence your case conceptualization.
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  And influence so your case conceptualization is like, how are you making sense of what's going on with your client?
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  And so what, what, what are the roots of the problem essentially, and what are the patterns that are sustaining it?
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  Patterns that the child is engaging in, as well as the relationship interaction patterns in their environment, which will include caregivers, I would say It also includes like school and what's going on at school.
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  Those areas where they spend a lot of time and have an influence on their day to day activities.
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  So.
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  And then, um, how is your, how is your framework guiding you through each stage of the change process?
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  What does your framework say to begin to do in the beginning?
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  What does your, um, well, when my mouth works again, what does your framework say to use in the middle?
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  And it's gonna be influenced by how your theory model explains the what's activating the behavior, what's, what are the roots of the problem?
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  So for example, Adlerian Play Therapy is going to explain it differently than Gestalt Play therapy or child-centered play therapy.
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  And so that's gonna influence what you do in each stage.
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  So in Adlerian play therapy, you're gonna do certain things In the beginning, you're gonna do certain things in the middle, and then how It's also gonna explain how you know when your client doesn't need to come anymore.
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  So.
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  If you're using more of an integrative approach using neuroscience and attachment theory, then that will influence how you make sense of what's going on with your client.
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  And then if you're using, if you're blending together theory models that are going to, um, show you what to do to facilitate change like EMDR or somatic experiencing or trauma-focused CBT, some of these other trauma-based or neuroscience and attachment based model that we use with trauma that have been getting really good results.
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  For adults, how do we take those and bring those into the play therapy world and blend those which would be using two or more models to create an integrative approach.
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  When you do that, you're still basing your case conceptualization using neuroscience and attachment on those models.
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  Um.
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  And then what are you gonna do in this session?
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  So that's, that's when you pick the activities are gonna be based on those models.
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  Like what you're gonna do with EMDR is probably gonna look a lot different than what you would do with trauma-focused CBT or um, even somatic experiencing.
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  It's gonna look different because your theory model says, it's gonna look different.
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  And when you're blending them, you're still, what you're doing is you're taking aspects of those model and putting them into a framework, what you're gonna do in each stage, and then you take, then you choose activities that will fit that model.
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  And um, and then that way you are, when you get lost or when you feel like things aren't working or when you're getting the phone calls, then you have, um, a framework to go back to that's gonna help you, like, take a breath, figure out what's happened, and then it's gonna explain what you need to do moving forward.
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  Well, that is it for today.
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  So if you're interested, I do have a training coming up.
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  It's called Healing Trauma using Play Therapy, a neuroscience and attachment approach.
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  And so like I said, what we're gonna do is we're gonna look at what neuroscience and attachment theory tells us about the impact of trauma.
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  Uh, we're gonna look at, um interpersonal neurobiology.
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  We're gonna look at polyvagal theory.
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  We're gonna look at what Peter Funy and his colleagues have said about mentalization.
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  We're gonna look at attachment and how all of that from a neurobiology and a attachment stand standpoint influences the impact of trauma on your client.
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  So it'll make sense then where some of their behaviors are coming from.
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  Help you look at those behaviors and that impact through that lens.
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  And then we're gonna look at a model that's going to integrate play therapy and specific models.
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  I was actually trained on a model, um, for trauma.
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  This was back, I think it was back in 2010, probably.
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  Using a model.
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  It was called the SIT cap Structured sensory Intervention for traumatized children, adolescents, and parents.
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  And I loved this model because back in the day they were talking about the sensory aspects of trauma and creating a framework using, um, aspects of neuroscience, but also understanding the, the way in which trauma changes the way we think about ourselves, think about others, think about the world around us.
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  That trauma basically hijacks your nervous system and then this specific model.
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  Kind of shows you, not kind of, but this specific model has.
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  Here's what you do in the initial stage.
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  Here's what you do in the middle.
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  Here's what you do in the end.
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  Here's how you know when they're making progress.
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  Here's how you know.
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  When something has gotten activated, here's how you dress that.
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  Here's how you work with parents.
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  Here's the role of parents.
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  So your theory model is going to explain what your role is as a therapist.
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  What is the child's role, what is the parent's role, and help you navigate your decision making about what to do in each stage, what's your role, what's their role?
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  And then when you're choosing activities, you know where to plug those in.
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  And so that, that's, that's the model that I was trained.
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  I still love it.
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  And now I've integrated in as we've learned more over the last couple of decades.
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  As we've learned more, what does that look like and how can we integrate more of these neuroscience and attachment, um, this neuroscience and attachment information that we've learned?
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  How can we blend all that?
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  So I, I have a specific framework.
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  We're gonna look at the frameworks.
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  We're gonna, the framework we're gonna look at, what's your role in each stage?
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  What's the child's role, what's the parent's role, choosing activities.
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  We'll do tons of activities in the training.
• 36:52
  So the training is gonna happen.
• 36:54
  It's called healing trauma using play therapy, a neuroscience and attachment approach, you're gonna get a theoretical model that's gonna, um, using a neuroscience and attachment lens, it's gonna help you know what to do in sessions, what the, what the stages are.
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  We're gonna go over activities.
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  And I'm also a firm believer that community is important, especially in play therapy.
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  It, this is hard holding those hard stories.
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  It's hard.
• 37:32
  Um.
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  Knowing what to do all the time.
• 37:36
  Sometimes we could just use a community of people who just seem to get it and understand, well, we don't have to explain what play therapy is, or we don't have to hear things like, oh, you know, they're kids.
• 37:48
  Just pull out an activity.
• 37:51
  This is a community of play therapists.
• 37:55
  Um, called play Therapy Elevation Circle.
• 37:58
  It's not, so, it's a new membership that I launched back in March, so it's closed right now, meaning we have people in the membership, but currently, while it's still in its kind of founding member and beta format, I've, I've really been working on, um.
• 38:18
  C, you know, getting, getting that community built up.
• 38:24
  But the thing is, it's still important to have community.
• 38:28
  So what I did is if you register the training, if you attend the training, then you get two months free.
• 38:36
  And what that means is.
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  When we have our monthly consultation calls, we can staff cases about trauma.
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  We can help problem solve, we can give support.
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  We can help you figure out what needs to happen.
• 38:51
  Are they making progress, making sense of their play therapy behaviors in the, in the training I, the in the sessions and what's going on with that.
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  There's also resources in there.
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  There's a community group feature, so in between meetings we can post and give support in there.
• 39:13
  So when you register for the training, you get two free months.
• 39:18
  Uh, play therapy, elevation Circle.
• 39:21
  And then the other thing we're doing in the training is we're talking, uh, there's, I'll give some tips on working with parents.
• 39:27
  We'll kind of talk a little bit about play therapy themes that you typically see for traumatized children.
• 39:34
  Really trying to help you get really grounded in a framework and understanding what's going on so you can help your clients heal from the trauma that they have experienced.
• 39:48
  So that is it for today.
• 39:51
  If you're interested in the training, then pop over to my website at rh play therapy training.com.
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  Click on the courses page.
• 40:03
  It's Healing Trauma using play therapy, a neuroscience and attachment approach.
• 40:09
  So pop over to my website, rh play therapy training.com.
• 40:14
  That's renewing hearts play therapy training.com.
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  Click on the courses page.
• 40:20
  There's two options you can attend, um, in person or virtually.
• 40:27
  All right, so I will see you next week and feel free to message me if you have any questions about the training, and I will see you next week.
• 40:41
  Thank you for joining me on this episode of Next Level Play Therapy.
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  I hope you found the discussion valuable and gained new insights and ideas to support your work helping children, adolescents, and families heal.
• 40:55
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  Remember.
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  Play therapy is a powerful tool for healing and growth.
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  Whether you're a new play therapist or experienced, I encourage you to continue your learning journey to unlock the potential of play in your own work in relationships.
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  If you have any questions or topics, suggestions for future episodes.
• 41:27
  I'd love to hear from you.
• 41:29
  Connect with me on social media and visit my website at Renewing Hearts Play Therapy Training to stay updated on upcoming episodes, trainings, and resources.
• 41:42
  Thank you once again for listening to Next Level Play Therapy.
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  Until next time, keep playing, learning and growing.