309 | CCPT Mindset: When Progress Anxiety Undermines the Model

Play Therapy Podcast: A Master-Class in Child-Centered Play Therapy · Jun 11, 2025 · 20m

In this episode, I continue the CCPT Mindset series with a deep dive into something we all wrestle with at some point: progress anxiety. As child-centered play therapists, it's easy to slip into the trap of wanting sessions to "go somewhere"—especially when outside pressures, whether internal doubts, school expectations, or parent demands, make us question whether anything is really happening.

I unpack the ways agenda sneaks into our work, often in subtle forms, and how our discomfort can lead us to drift from the model without realizing it. I share the concept of progress as something that…