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What’s the Backbone of Great Play & Expressive Arts Therapy?

Any really great therapist will tell you that one the foundational elements of providing excellent psychotherapy to clients is …

… Clinical Case Conceptualization.  Are you having flashbacks to graduate school and rolling your eyes at me as you read this?  

Hang in there a minute.  I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE , LOVE clinical case conceptualization.  It's like being a psychotherapy detective (yes, that's my guilty pleasure - watching detective shows).  I love a good "who dunnit."  As a psychotherapy super sleuth, you go on an investigation to figure out what is going on underneath those symptoms and how to help your clients get better.

Here’s why it’s the backbone… (full disclosure – I’m passionate about this because I see it go wrong so often) it’s the way in which you conceptualize what’s going on with your clients and then formulate a plan to help your clients overcome the problem they were seeking you to help them resolve.

The same is true for play therapy and expressive arts.  How you conceptualize the presenting problem determines how you plan to help your client overcome it. So you need to be a good psychotherapy super sleuth!

Join me for this week's podcast episode, I’ll be discussing what is clinical case conceptualization, tips for getting it right, and what happens if you get it wrong so that you can provide excellent play therapy and expressive arts treatment for your clients.  

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