5 Mistakes Every Play Therapist Makes (And How to Grow from Them)

Next Level Play Therapy: A Podcast for Play Therapy Excellence · Jun 12, 2025 · 48m · transcript

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Have you ever had the sinking feeling after a session and thought you blew it bad?

If that’s ever been you… welcome to the club.

And guess what?

You’re in exactly the right place.

This week we’re diving into something that might make you wince and exhale a huge sigh of relief at the same time.

We’re talking about the honest, human, messy mistakes play therapists make—and what we can actually do about them.

Because let’s be real: we’ve all had those moments where we left a session thinking:

“Did I actually help that kid?”

“Why did I freeze when the parent asked that?”

Or the…