Recession-Proof Your Practice: Financial Security for Service Providers

For only $96 get confidence knowing your practice is financially secure, even in uncertain economic times. Receive clear, practical steps for immediate implementation. Have the peace of mind to continue serving your clients effectively without financial stress.

5 Keys to Conscious Parenting During Divorce E-Book

Could not determine course Divorce Is Tough—But Your Parenting Can Make All the Difference Divorce is one of the most challenging transitions a family can face. For children, it can create feelings of uncertainty, fear, confusion, and even trauma—especially when high conflict between parents takes center stage. But there’s hope: with conscious, mindful parenting, you can minimize the emotional toll on your children and help them thrive, even through this difficult time. Introducing my new book written after over 20 years of supporting families going through divorce in my psychotherapy practice: 5 Keys to Conscious Parenting During Divorce This comprehensive e-book offers parents a practical, compassionate roadmap to support their children emotionally and psychologically during and after divorce.   What You’ll Learn in This E-Book The Impact of Loyalty Conflicts on Children Understand the psychological struggles children face, including feelings of guilt, insecurity, and divided loyalty. The Mental Health Implications Discover how high-conflict divorces can affect a child’s ability to trust, regulate emotions, and maintain a sense of self—and how to prevent these outcomes. Conscious Parenting Strategies Learn five actionable, mindfulness-based approaches to help your children feel emotionally safe and free to love both parents without fear or judgment. How to Prioritize Your Child’s Well-Being Gain tools and insights to shift focus from conflict to connection, ensuring your child emerges from the divorce feeling secure and supported. Why This E-Book Matters Children of high-conflict divorces often bear emotional scars that last a lifetime, including anxiety, depression, and difficulty forming relationships. 5 Keys to Conscious Parenting During Divorce empowers you to break this cycle by providing actionable strategies that prioritize your child’s mental health and emotional resilience. What’s Inside the E-Book? Key 1: Building Emotional Safety Learn how to create an environment where your children feel protected, loved, and understood. Key 2: Managing Your Own Emotions Discover mindfulness techniques to regulate your emotions and model healthy coping for your children. Key 3: Co-Parenting Without Conflict Get tools for effective communication and collaboration with your co-parent—even in difficult circumstances. Key 4: Supporting Your Child’s Emotional Needs Identify signs of stress or emotional struggles in your children and how to respond compassionately. Key 5: Helping Your Child Feel Free to Love Both Parents Understand the importance of allowing your child to maintain loving, guilt-free relationships with both parents. Who Is This E-Book For? Parents navigating divorce or post-divorce challenges Parents experiencing high-conflict co-parenting dynamics Anyone who wants to prioritize their child’s emotional well-being during this transition Your Investment in Your Child’s Future is only $18 For less than the cost of a family meal, you can gain tools and strategies to protect your child’s mental health and foster a lifetime of emotional resilience.   Why Wait? Start Building a Healthier Future for Your Family Today Don’t let divorce define your child’s emotional future. Take the first step toward conscious parenting and ensuring your children feel supported, loved, and secure. Click Below to Get Instant Access for Just $18 About Lynn Louise Wonders  MA, LPC, RPT-S, CPCS Lynn has over 20 years of experience working in the field of mental health having specialized in child and family therapies including play therapy, family systems-based therapy, and relationship counseling. She has advanced training and experience with the Gottman method, Adlerian Couples Counseling, and Imago Relationship Therapy. She has over 30 years of experience teaching mindfulness-based classes. She authored and published the book When Parents Are at War after many years of supporting children and families in high conflict divorce and custody disputes and serving as an expert witness in numerous court cases. Lynn has authored and co-edited Nature-based Play and Expressive Therapies for Children and Families, Play Therapy Treatment Planning with Children and Families, Mindfulness-based Play Therapy, and numerous therapeutic children’s books including the Miss Piper’s Playroom Series and other books. Lynn is the founder and Chief Instructor of The Mindfulness-based Therapy Training Institute® and the creator of Mindfulness-based Play Therapy®. She has been providing continuing education, supervision, and consultation since 2010. She is a certified Synergetic Play Therapist®, certified AutPlay® Therapist, and a certified Pure Presence® Practitioner. She is the published author of numerous books, chapters, and professional articles and has co-edited three academic books that support child and family mental health professionals. You can contact her and learn more at WondersCounseling.com  

Child & Family Counseling Practice Forms

Lynn Louise Wonders has brought all of her practice forms together in one place for easy reference. Everything you need, customizable for your own practice.

Time is on Your Side: Become a Time Management Master

$197 If it feels like time management is something you need to learn and implement more efficiently into your life , this program may be just what you’ve been looking for. If it feels like you never have enough time to do all the things you want and need to do, you do not need another fancy planner. You need a time management mastery protocol with set practices that will enable you to strategically and effectively utilize the minutes and hours in your days in ways that leave you feeling accomplished, refreshed, fulfilled and at peace with your work, your personal life and your relationships. Come and learn with me the system that has enabled me to create and publish over 80 courses, 14 books, multiple academic book chapters and published articles, work with thousands of clients, run 9 master-mind programs and other live group coaching programs, build and scale 9 businesses and still have time for daily exercise, time with family, world travel and leisure time with my puppy and husband.  There are a set of specific principles, protocols and practices that have enabled me to achieve the life I’ve created and I can help you create the life of joy, fun, peace and balance you have longed for. Hi! I am Lynn Louise Wonders and I am a Time Management Master .  I will teach you my time management mastery system so that you, too, can be a time management master. People ask me all the time HOW I am able to publish so many articles, chapters and books in such short time, HOW I am able to run multiple businesses simultaneously and HOW I am able work with clients, run classes, run live programs, create new content, interact so often on social media, finish so many training certifications AND exercise, spend time with family, take care of a puppy, and meditate. I’ve decided it’s time for me to share my secrets. But first, let’s clear up a few myths about what it takes to accomplish a LOT of things in less time than you’d imagine . . . No, you do not need to be a work-aholic. No, you do not need to give up sleep. No, you do not need to have manic levels of energy. Yes, you’ll need to honestly examine your current habits and be willing to make some changes and implement new practices. Yes, my time management mastery system WILL work for you if you practice what I teach you. No, it’s not just about using a planner. Being a time management master requires very specific practices that you must actually practice consistently. So, what will you gain by becoming a time management master? You will feel less overwhelmed and more focused. You will learn how to procrastination proof your life. You will learn to ditch distractions. You will learn how to prioritize what really matters most to you and your life. You will get much more done than you ever imagined you could. You will have more time to relax, play and rest. Your relationships will be stronger with all the people who matter most to you. You will be more efficient. You will be more accomplished. You will have a greater sense of peace. So how does this program work? step 1 You sign up and gain access to all the modules and learn at your own pace! step 2 12 modules each with a 30 minute video presentations. step 3 12 practices to be implemented in order so that you build your new time management system step by step. step 4 Fillable, printable “play-sheets” (ya know, like “work-sheets” but way more fun) you can add to a digital or physical folder/binder. step 5 Enjoy life time access to all course content! Module 1: Get Your Head in the Game of Time Management Mastery! 2 Lessons Module 1: Get Your Head in the Game of Time Management Mastery! 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Navigating High Conflict Divorce & Custody Cases

This course is a sort of insurance policy for you and your practice. Don't wait until you've been served with a subpoena. Don't wait until you are in over your head! Be well prepared so you can be confident and be less affected by the anxiety that often accompanies high conflict cases. Every counselor, social worker, therapist and psychologist who provides psychotherapy for children and families needs to be well prepared for the inevitability of high conflict divorce and custody disputes that come with the territory of providing child therapy.

S.E.A.L. Social Emotional Awareness Literacy for Preschoolers®

A comprehensive professional training program that includes video presentations, a private Facebook group for support, reading materials, written assignments, a curriculum manual, a recommended supply kit, business training on how to market the program to preschools and more… If you love working with young children and those who teach and care for them, this will take your career to the next level.

Leave a Legacy! Create & Publish a Children's Book

Come and learn with author Lynn Louise Wonders by hearing about the successes and mistakes she has made along the way and what she learned. Her transparency and willingness to share the triumphs AND the pitfalls is invaluable in your own learning experience.

Facilitating Healthy Gender Development

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 30 minute recorded presentation to provide a basic but very important understanding of what therapists, teachers and other caring adults can do to help children have healthy gender development. This course is a great precursor to Susan Radzilowski's training presentation on gender affirming care also available on this learning platform.

Play Therapy with the Anxious Child

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar that presents theoretical basis and interventions for providing play therapy with children suffering with a variety of anxiety disorders.

Cognitive Behavioral Play therapy with OCD

This is a 4 hour in-depth training recorded from a live webinar in which Lynn Louise Wonders go in-depth into the use of the theoretical approach of Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy for treating OCD in child clients.

Prescriptive Play Therapy with Generalized Anxiety Disorder

This 3.5 hour recorded webinar is a comprehensive look at how to treat children suffering from Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). You will learn about how to recognize and diagnose this disorder and how to formulate a treatment plan that addresses the particular needs of the particular client you are seeing using a potentially trans-theoretical prescriptive play therapy approach.

Play Therapy & The Perfectionistic Child

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar covering theory and practical interventions for how best to work with children showing signs of perfectionistic tendencies using play therapy.

Effective Treatment of Selective Mutism in Young Children with Play Therapy

This course teaches a prescriptive play therapy approach to treating selective mutism based on what the research says is most effective in treating young children including a combination of child centered play therapy, lightly structured play therapy and more directive cognitive behavioral play therapy and behavioral play-based interventions based upon the symptom severity measured by observations and reports using behavioral rating scales and interview consultations.

Purposeful Uses for Games in the Play Room

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar on the theory and skills of using games therapeutically for children in the play room. You'll finish with a number of examples of games you can use with your child clients!

Directive Play Therapy Techniques

This 2 hour live online interactive training webinar will provide therapists an overview of the nature of directive play therapy along with theoretical foundations and specific interventions and techniques for implementation as part of a goal directed play therapy treatment plan.

Treating Adolescents With Trichotillomania Using Prescriptive Play Therapy

In this 4 hour recorded webinar Lynn Louise Wonders walks you through the diagnostic process, case conceptualization process and treatment planning specifically for treating adolescents suffering with trichotillomania using age and developmentally appropriate play and expressive therapy interventions. You will grow in your confidence for treating this disorder and enrich your knowledge base about this very complex anxiety disorder that falls under the umbrella of OCD.

A Neurobiological Approach To Play Therapy

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour live recording of a previously online interactive training webinar with a thorough overview of foundational neurobiology and play therapy.

Play Therapy Interventions with Night & Bedtime Anxiety

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar on the nature of anxiety some young children have at night/bedtime and how to help children and their parents with the use of play therapy. You will learn theoretical based skills and methods for providing effective interventions.

Subpoenas & Court in Play Therapy

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar that provides an overview of how child therapists should be prepared for what to do when receiving a subpoena and testifying in court. This course is a much briefer introduction to this topic than is provided in the comprehensive Navigating High Conflict Divorce & Custody Cases Course

Parent-Child Reunification Play Therapy

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded provides therapists an interactive training opportunity to learn about the very specialized process of supporting and facilitating reunification between parents and children when there has been alienation and/or estrangement through play therapy treatment planning and specific interventions.

Preschool Play Therapy and Behavioral Observations

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presented this 2 hour training in 2017 providing therapists an overview of how to apply play therapy and behavioral observation services in preschool settings. This training includes business training and supporting documents, contracts and more.

Play Therapy with Children Experiencing Grief & Loss

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar about how grief and loss presents in children of various ages and a number of interventions and techniques for implementation.

Prescriptive Play Therapy with Families: Theory and Interventions

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 4 hour recorded training of a previous live webinar that goes into great detail as to a trans-theoretical, prescriptive approach to helping families using play therapy.

Play Therapy Across the Life Span: Therapeutic Play for All Ages

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this audio recording of a live tele-seminar in which you will be led through the 8 stages of human development and learn how you can use play therapy with people of ALL AGES! You will receive specific interventions and ideas for treatment plans involving play regardless of the age of your client.

Play Therapy with Tween Girls (ages 10-12)

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar about using play therapy effectively with girls ages 10-12 including play-based interventions and special strategies.

Play Therapy with Divorce

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar that addresses a thorough overview of what you need to know about treating children whose parents are divorced or divorcing using play therapy including intervention ideas.

Creative & Expressive Play Therapy Interventions for Children Ages 4–11

Facilitating experiences for children in the play room using creative and expressive activities can be a part of the psycho-education piece of treatment along with an opportunity for children to show what they are experiencing, seeing, feeling in their inner world.

Including Parents in the Play Room

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar on a number of theoretical based ways you can include parents in the playroom with child clients as a part of your play therapy treatment plan.

Identifying & Navigating Parental Alienation in Play Therapy

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded training that outlines the history and reality of what parental alienation is, what it is not and how to identify and navigate these difficult dynamics when providing play therapy services.

Supporting Stressed Parents in Child & Family Telehealth Therapy

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S created this 2 hour webinar during the height of the COVID19 pandemic realizing parents were experiencing high levels of stress and needed support through tele-health. Since that time, parents have continued to benefit from therapeutic support as part of the work child and family therapists do to support families through tele-health. The material in this training endures as helpful and relevant providing strategies and therapeutic interventions.

Supporting Divorced & Divorcing Parents with Co-Parenting During COVID-19

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S created this 2 hour webinar during the height of the COVID19 pandemic to address the need for child and family therapists to have skills in helping parents of child clients who were either going through divorce or divorcing. Normally, it would never be recommended that a child's therapist also serve as coparenting therapist but sometimes circumstances, like the pandemic or rural location require therapists to have additional skills.

Play Therapy 101: Foundations and Basic Skills

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this very thorough foundational 3 hour previously live online interactive training webinar that covers history, theory and skills you need to get started providing play therapy services.

Mindfulness in Play Therapy With Children

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar providing a definition, benefits and overview of the practice of mindfulness and it's connection to the theoretical basis for play therapy services. This course provides practical skills and methods therapists can utilize in the play therapy room with child clients.

Ethical Play Therapy In Home & School Settings

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar about how you can provide ethical play therapy services in the home and school environments.

The Play Therapy Process with Difficult Parents

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar on the personalities of parents who are challenging and numerous strategies for how to effectively navigate those difficult dynamics in the process of providing play therapy.

Play Therapy with Anxiety Disorders

This 2 hour recorded online training webinar with Lynn Louise Wonders provides training regarding anxiety disorders in children along with an overview in 3 seminal theories that provide effective play therapy approaches for addressing both the symptoms and the underlying basis for anxiety disorders in child clients.

Play Therapy with Children with Sibling Rivalry & Jealousy

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presented this 2 hour webinar you can now access as a recorded learning enrichment course. Learn about how to work with siblings and how to address jealousy and rivalry therapeutically.

Creative & Affordable Play Therapy Interventions & Items

Come and learn with Lynn Louise Wonders how and why to recycle and reuse everyday items into useful, fun items and games to utilize in the play therapy room! You'll receive 20 innovative and affordable play therapy interventions in this 90 minute training.

20 Creative Play Therapy Interventions with Anxiety for Older Children

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents a recorded 90 minute webinar full of ideas for how best to work with older children who have anxiety using creative and expressive play-based activities.

Play Therapy with Items from Nature

There are myriad ways to bring a little of Nature into the play therapy room and there are plentiful benefits. This one hour webinar will explore numerous creative play therapy interventions borrowing from the items we can find free of charge out in the great outdoors to help children and adults. 

Treating Trichotillomania with Play Therapy

This is a 2 hour training recorded from a live webinar presented by Lynn Louise Wonders which provides a theoretically based approach using play based interventions to address the symptoms and underlying issues that accompany the diagnosis of trichotillomania. You will learn practical knowledge that will help you to feel more confident in your diagnostic skills, your treatment planning and in developing strategies for best treating the child you are seeing in therapy.

Seminal & Historical Theories in Play Therapy

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour previously live online webinar in which she reviews the basis and tenets of all the seminal theories included in the practice of play therapy.

Play Therapy with Separation Anxiety

Children who have separation anxiety disorder experience severe disruption in ability to have a normal and happy functioning life. Play therapy can be a source of healing, learning and growing into an ability to have healthy separation from parents or other primary caregivers. This webinar will provide an overview of the nature of separation anxiety and how to address it in play therapy.

What is in a play room?

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 1 hour recorded tele-seminar about what you need to equip a play room for play therapy services but it also includes information on building a mobile playroom and having a multi purpose office!

Bibliotherapy: The Magic of Bringing Books into the Play Room

In this 2-hour recorded webinar Lynn Louise Wonders will take a look at the best ways to utilize children’s books in the play room to assist in helping children in their process of healing and growth.

Prescriptive Play Therapy Theory & Interventions for Sibling Sessions

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour webinar previously recorded on theory and interventions for working with siblings in the playroom providing play therapy.

Parent-Child Connection in Divorce with Play Therapy

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar on how you as a child therapist can help parents and children be and stay connected through the process of parents' divorce.

Play Therapy with Children Experiencing Anger & Frustration

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recording of a previously live online interactive training webinar providing therapists an overview of how to better understand emotions of anger and frustration in children along with specific interventions and techniques for implementation as part of your goal directed play therapy treatment plan.

Fostering Emotional Intelligence through Play Therapy for Children & Parents

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar full of theory and interventions for helping children and parents with emotional awareness and regulation.

Play Therapy with Groups of Children Ages 5-11

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar on ways you can provide play therapy to groups of young children covering a variety of focuses and topics.

Fun & Effective Play Therapy Interventions for Family Sessions

This short training is packed with practical ways you can help families in the play room using play based techniques and activities previously led live by Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, RPT-S, CPCS.

Play Therapy & Court: Be Prepared

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this recorded webinar full direction and support around how to be prepared for testifying in a court case when providing play therapy.

Building Rapport & Establishing the Relationship in Play Therapy

Building Rapport & Establishing the Relationship in Play Therapy Through a Combination of Foundational Child Centered Play Therapy & Directive Play-based Techniques.

Magic of Marketing Your Play Therapy Practice

In this 1 hour mini-workshop you will hear a plethora of ideas, strategies, tips and tools for how to get the word out and develop a referral network that will help you have a thriving play therapy practice with clients that you LOVE to work with! You will be provided with a link to join a private Facebook group with the same title as this recording upon completion.

Money Matters: A Workshop for Helping Professionals

Join me and other helping professionals who came together live and recorded this workshop for you to enjoy at your own pace. This workshop is an investment in your relationships with your career and financial success. This is a business development workshop you can write-off on your taxes. A receipt will be provided.

Understanding a Child’s Brain Through Play Therapy

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recording of a formerly live online interactive training webinar. This is an introduction to a child’s brain development and how a child’s behavior and expressions can be better understood and addressed with this understanding. This 2 hour webinar is an excellent first step to understanding the basics of the more complex field neuroscience in relation to treating children in play therapy. 

The Business of Play Therapy: A 2 Hour Mini Workshop

In this 2 hour workshop, I teach you about the business side of play therapy private practice. I cover budgeting, purchasing, bookkeeping, record-keeping, marketing & networking, tele-health options, when and how to hire help. Running a successful and efficient business as a play therapist in private practice requires having systems in place that work for you. This workshop also offers a review of various platforms and software that you might consider utilizing.

Play Therapy with High Conflict Divorce & Custody Cases

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this recording of an online interactive training webinar that provide therapists an overview of the nature of providing play therapy with high conflict divorce and custody cases.

Parents & Play Therapy

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour live online interactive training webinar will provide therapists an overview of the nature of directive play therapy along with theoretical foundations and specific interventions and techniques for implementation as part of a goal directed play therapy treatment plan.

Facilitative Play Therapy Interventions for Children with Emotion Dysregulation

This recorded 2 hour webinar previously led live by Lynn Louise Wonders addressed the neuroscience of emotion dysregulation and provides training in how to help children experientially in the safety of the therapeutic alliance learn how to find soothing, coping and self-acceptance through the experience of big emotions.

Evidence Based Play Therapy: Research Supported Treatment Planning

Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar citing evidence based research and treatment planning for play therapy. This course is a good foundational course for clinicians seeing child clients.

Authentic & Effective Marketing for Mental Health Business

Marketing your mental health related services has to be handled in a way that is AUTHENTIC and TRANSPARENT in order to align with your integrity as a professional. This mini marketing class is only ONE HOUR long and I’ll teach you the formula that has always worked for keeping my practice full.

Helping Children Who Struggle In School with Play Therapy

This course is a deeper dive into learning about why children may be struggling in school and how to help them and advocate for them in the process of providing play therapy services. This course includes a 3 part video presentation and 3 downloadable, printable handouts.

The Playful Integration Approach to Sand Therapy With Parents

Heather Fairlee Denbrough shares The Playful Integration approach to Sand Tray with Parents. Join Heather for a conversation about the ways that she co-creates pure magic with parents in her practice - the slow, transformative kind of magic that leaves a pearlescent watermark on the family’s life that changes things for the better. Do you want a totally different way to work with parents? Heather’s approach is slow, intentional, creative, and makes space for great vulnerability and change. Give yourself the gift of feeling confident using sand tray to enhance parent work.

Suicidal Ideation in Little Ones: Stress Management in Play Therapy

Developing stress management skills in young children is research-proven to reduce later suicidal ideation, self-harm, and suicide attempts in the adolescent years. This is the power of early intervention at its best. Heather takes you through the steps that she uses to increase a child’s ability to manage stress in a healthy way and how to reinforce that vital skill in the playroom.

Young Children & Suicidal Ideation in the Playroom

Come learn about Young Children & Suicidal Ideation in the Playroom. This workshop is especially for play therapists and addresses what to look for in the playroom, how to assess risk with children, working with parents of children who experience suicidal ideation, and a robust overview of prevention/crisis planning. You'll also get my handout on Prevention Plan Strategies for Young Children.

Playful Integration Case Study Bundle

This Case Study Bundle has three rich case studies (not referencing actual clients) with enough information to get your curiosity and creativity flowing about play therapy approaches. These case studies include a detailed set of questions that can be used to formulate a diagnostic impression, generate practice for treatment planning and deciding on interventions and approaches, and to invite the therapist to tap into their own intuition and find a sense of direction at the beginning of therapy. Great for use with supervisees, new therapists, students, or for self-practice.

Playful Integration Play Therapy Documentation Support Packet

This wildly popular set of 12 handouts is designed to boost your confidence and competence as a play therapist. Handouts include tons of examples that you can use in your own practice, and cover treatment planning, progress notes, medical necessity, concurrent documentation, and more! This packet is a labor of love.

The Playful Integration Mindful Garden Card Deck

Do you want a new way to bring mindfulness into play therapy sessions or even on walks with your own children? Heather created the Mindful Garden Card Deck based on her own wonderful experiences with children in the therapy garden. Come and explore the outside with these beautifully and simply written prompts for mindfulness in nature. You’ll get a PDF Print download of 18 beautiful printable cards, plus instructions.

Play Therapist Exploration Journal from Playful Integration

Introducing the Playful Integration Play Therapist Exploration Journal, a digital journal that lets you dance with your creative spark with special attention paid to your role as a play therapist and your immersion and interest in your work. This zine can also be used by play therapist supervisors or those teaching play therapy - need some prompts to spark deep discussion with your supervisees or students? You’ll get so much out of this! You’ll get 20 pages of prompts, many of which are from Heather’s own journaling practice as a therapist for 14 years. Take some time and space for your own reflection on how you’re showing up in the work as a play therapist, what you need to sustain you, and what gets you energized. Take time to reflect. You’re doing great.

Teaching Parents About the Nervous System

This well-loved training event presented by by Instructor Heather Fairlee Denbrough, LICSW, RPT-S, SPT-S of Playful Integrations was recorded and now available for your learning enrichment wherever you are. Come and learn how to help parents understand their child's nervous system!

Hyperarousal in the Playroom: A Playful Integration Workshop

This Playful Integration workshop is especially for child therapists providing play therapy, addressing how to identify, understand and work with hyper arousal in the playroom. Hyper arousal is our fight or flight sympathetic nervous system response that serves to mobilize us when we perceive a threat or a challenge so that we can keep ourselves safe.

Weaving Relationships in the Playroom

Part of the Playful Integration Relational Magic Series, join Heather FD for Weaving Relationships in the Playroom with Parents. This one is especially for anyone who’s working on involving parents more, having family therapy sessions, or if you feel like you could be having stronger relationships with parents but aren’t sure how to make that happen. Let Heather walk you through her approach to weaving parents into and all through the play therapy process from start to finish.

Deepening the Magic in the Sand Tray

Part of the Relational Magic Series, join Heather FD for Deepening the Magic in the Sand Tray with Parents. You'll learn the ways that Heather uses the sand tray to focus on relationships and relational magic, including: how to engage parents and help them get comfortable with using the sand tray in parent sessions, relational SIFTing, sand tray prompts, glimmers in the sand, and more. Come deepen your own practice with parents in the sand.

Creating the Magical Container

Creating the Magical Container is Heather FD’s offering on how exactly she makes incredibly deep connections with parents and caregivers. You’ll get the bullet points to her approach to working with parents, a look at the neuroscience involved, as well as seasonal interventions designed to create and deepen the container for parents to find felt safety and fully engage in the change-making process with their children. It’s neuroscience and relational magic all rolled into one, complete with experientials and answers to your questions.

Mirror Magic: Projective Imagery & the Felt Sense

From Playful Integration’s Relational Magic in the Playroom Series - Mirror Magic: Projective Imagery & the Felt Sense. This is a workshop with lots of experientials focused on helping you hone your reflective and interoceptive awareness. Heather offers interventions that help us hone that part of ourselves deep inside our bodies that tells us “what’s up” in the playroom. How do we get really good at feeling the signals our nervous system is giving us? Come explore your somatic knowing with Heather FD. You'll learn about mirror neurons, the nervous system, projective processes, the Shadow self in the playroom, and more.

Teaching Parents About Attachment Issues

If you feel like you’re sometimes not sure how to talk to parents about attachment issues, come learn with Heather Fairlee Denbrough provide her best tips and strategies for having conversations with parents about attachment that go beyond surface level and really serve to make deep change for kids and families. You'll also get the Playful Integration resource list on Teaching Parents About Attachment.

Awkward Moments with Parents in Play Therapy

Do you find yourself stumbling in conversations with parents, find it difficult to give feedback or share your observations, or generally have a sense of unease when working directly with parents?

Family Therapy for Play Therapists

Are you uncertain of how, when, and why to do family work in play therapy? Let’s talk about involving family members because outcomes are better for children when their families are involved in therapy! Join Heather FD for another Playful Integration workshop: The Whys & Hows of Family Therapy for Play Therapists. Heather FD gives you all her tips for family play sessions that help kids and their parents make progress and heal. You'll also get the Playful Integration resource list on Working with Parents in Play Therapy.

Helping Parents Attune in Play Therapy

Do you have difficulty helping parents lean into the play therapy process? This is Heather’s dynamic workshop on Helping Parents Attune in Play Therapy. You asked for it and here it is, by popular vote! This practical 1 hour workshop will give you all Heather’s best tips, tools, and interventions to support you in the sometimes challenging work of helping parents develop and hone their ability to attune to their children.