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Window of Tolerance in Play Therapy: Why Kids "Bail" on Deep Play
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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 was never built to sustain 45 straight minutes in emotional intensity — and clinicians who miss this…
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