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What’s one of the biggest struggles play therapists say causes them to feel anxious, incompetent, frustrated, and generally overwhelmed on a regular basis?

If you guessed working with parents – winner, winner, chicken dinner!

It’s one of the most common challenges I hear from play therapists.

Do any of these sound familiar?

“I can’t get parents to schedule a parent only session with me.”

“I’m getting lots of phone calls, texts, and emails from a parent telling me all the things their child is doing and I feel pressure to fix it fast.”

“I feel like parents just want to drop off their kid for me to ‘fix’ and they want things fixed yesterday.”

“My client asked if their parent could join the session so I said yes and it was sooooooooo awkward. It was awful.”

If you said yes to any of these then you are not alone.  

The underlying root of these stressful situations is a fundamental missing ingredient in your approach to play therapy.

The problem is that most play therapy training doesn’t talk about how to work with parents in play therapy, especially challenging parents.

If this is your struggle then join me for this weekly podcast! We’re going to tackle the question of how to conceptualize the role of parents in play therapy so you can get better engagement and stop feeling emotionally drained and frustrated.

There are three key things you need to figure out that will set you up for success engaging parents as your partner in the play therapy process.  

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