Next Level Play Therapy: A Podcast for Play Therapy Excellence
Join me on Next Level Play Therapy, a podcast for child and adolescent therapists seeking to elevate your play therapy services. Hosted by Cathi Spooner, LCSW, RPT-S, at Renewing Hearts Play Therapy Training.
Each episode delves into the nuances of play therapy, exploring innovative techniques, evidence-based practices, and practical strategies for providing exceptional therapeutic experiences. These engaging discussions cover a wide range of topics, including building rapport with children, how to make sure you get great outcomes for clients, therapeutic toys and tools and strategies to use in sessions, addressing trauma and attachment issues, engaging parents, promoting emotional regulation, and nurturing resilience for children and their families.
Whether you're an experienced therapist looking to refine your skills or a novice clinician venturing into the world of play therapy, the Next Level Play Therapy podcast equips you with the knowledge and insights to enhance your play therapy practice. With interviews featuring experts in play therapy, exploration of best practices, discussion of game-changing principles and strategies, this podcast equips you with the tools to unlock the amazing power of play therapy to transform the lives of children, adolescents, and families.
Tune in to Next Level Play Therapy and take a journey towards becoming an exceptional play therapist as we navigate the next level strategies that lead to profound healing and growth for children and their families.
Next Level Play Therapy: A Podcast for Play Therapy Excellence
Latest Episodes
Why Play Therapists Shouldn't Work Alone: Overcoming Clinical Isolation
Are you the only play therapist in your agency? Or perhaps you're in private practice and feel like you're navigating complex cases entirely on your own?Many play therapists accept isolation as "just the reality" of the field. <...
The Isolated Play Therapist Syndrome: Why You’re Feeling Burned Out
If you're a play therapist — especially in your first few years — and you're the only one in your agency or you're in private practice figuring this out by yourself, this is for you.You went into this work because you genuinely believe i...
Jungian Play Therapy 101: Symbols, Archetypes & Clinical Ideas
What is Jungian Analytic Play Therapy, and how does it actually work in the playroom? In this podcast, we dive deep into the symbolic world of Jungian theory with guest Jared Andes, LCSW, RPT-S. We ...
The Trauma Roadmap: Using Neuroscience & Attachment in Play Therapy
Are you tired of leaving your play therapy sessions wondering if you’re actually helping or just "playing"?You’ve invested in the play therapy training, you’ve gathered the strategies, and you have a playroom full of tools.&nb...
Is Trauma Really Stored in the Body? New Science for Play Therapists
Is trauma actually "stored" in our organs, or have we been looking at it all wrong?For years, play therapists have repeated the mantra that "trauma is stored in the body," but a groundbreaking 2026 peer-reviewed article is cha...
