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S3E22 - Parent Companion for Play Therapy: Why Kids' Brains Work Differently in Therapy
In this episode of the Parent Companion for Play Therapy series, I explain how a child's brain works differently from an adult's brain in therapy — and why that difference matters so much. Many parents assume therapy is therapy, but children don't process experiences through logic, language, or abstract thinking the way adults do. I compare adult brains to waffles and children's brains to cooked spaghetti to show how adults can compartmentalize issues, while children experience everything as connected and happening all at once.
I walk through why verbal prompts and talk-based therapy work for…
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