How to Work with Resistance in Play Therapy: 4 Approaches for Reluctant Clients

Next Level Play Therapy: A Podcast for Play Therapy Excellence · Aug 14, 2025 · 42m · transcript

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What do you do when you keep getting frantic phone calls from caregivers between play therapy sessions telling you all the things going wrong with their child?

You feel the weight of these phone calls and the pressure to make everything better- quickly.

You’ve tried many times to get these caregivers to schedule an appointment with you but there’s always a reason they can’t meet with you.

So, you spend hours writing emails and responding to phone calls with little to no success.

Or - what about the client that seems to do the same thing week after week after week in their…