5 playful ways that you can take action in celebrating Black History Month. Consider featuring a Black Artist in your office or waiting room. Add some diversity to your miniatures with this family set ..read more

September honors lives lost by suicide, those struggling with suicidal thoughts, and communities impacted by suicide ..read more

Let’s talk about the Summer Scaries. Taking a kids-eye-view the last two weeks of school are filled with fun times and parties, the teacher and kids you’ve been with for the past 9 months bid you farewell and now it’s time for the big unknown. SUMMER CAMP.  It’s got lots of kids you don’t know ..read more

Anxiety is an illness of “What Ifs”. It’s different from fear which is often based on specific danger. Anxiety is more general. It is a feeling of persistent worry, often about predictable themes within a child’s life. Anxiety works in a cycle. It is self reinforcing ..read more

A Review by Shawna Nelson, our Graduate Student Intern The Explosive Child, written by psychologist Dr. Ross Greene is a guide for parents of children who are inflexible, easily frustrated, angered, and triggered in especially intense ways. These children will often scream, kick, bite, and lash out with physical or emotional aggression that is out ..read more

What Is So Special About Play Therapy? Play therapists speak a language that can sometimes leave them feeling a little lonely in the world. But we wear that badge proudly and we do our best to translate. Part of our work is to help others understand the language of childhood ..read more

The playroom is a place without judgment, without evaluation. The place where the child is accepted 100% - exactly as they are. No need to share what they did at school today, they don’t have to tell us what they learned. Or affirm their existence with success in their honors courses. We offer them a place to freely express themselves without any attachments to outcomes ..read more

Being a parent of a child in chronic emotional distress can make you feel as if you have a phantom limb. One you can feel pain and discomfort in but have no power of relieving or protecting. This pain often rightly motivates us to seek support outside of home. The therapist and the playroom offer a healing salve for parents and children alike. But, of course, their reach is only so far ..read more

Play is a human universal. It is the right of childhood, recognized by the United Nations as such. Within child-centered philosophies play is considered essential for human development. Garry Landreth, the founder of The Center for Play Therapy writes, “Play gives concrete form and expression to children’s inner world.” Through play, Landreth writes, children learn to live in the adult’s world of meaning and values ..read more

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