Stuck With a Client and Just Throwing Play Therapy Activities at the Wall, Hoping Something Sticks?
The free cheat sheet that gets you out of guessing mode and into a plan — in under 5 minutes.
You know the feeling.
The play therapy session isn't working.
The play therapy session isn't working.
You start second-guessing yourself. So you go looking for any activity that might land — games, art activity, sand tray activity, whatever's on Pinterest tonight.
It's not that you don't know your play therapy theory. It's that in the moment, you're reacting to the behavior instead of working the root problem underneath it.
Scattered. Chaotic. Overwhelming. And your client feels it too.
Scattered. Chaotic. Overwhelming. And your client feels it too.
There's one order that gets you out of that spiral:
Root Problem → Theory → Stage → Goal → THEN the Activity.
Root Problem → Theory → Stage → Goal → THEN the Activity.
Activity picked last, not first. That's the whole shift.
One free page. Three tools. Zero fluff.
- The 5-Step Order — so you stop picking activities first and start picking them right, last
- 4 Models, 1 Behavior — see examples for how Attachment, CBT, Gestalt, and EMDR each read "child throws toys" differently, and what Stage 1 looks like in each so you can conceptualize the process
- The 60-Second Self-Check — 5 questions to run before your next play therapy session so you walk in with a plan, not a guess
Print it. Laminate it. Keep it open next to your notes.
For the Play Therapist Who's Tired Of...
- Feeling stuck and not knowing why the activity isn't working.
- Second-guessing every play therapy intervention after the fact.
- Chasing new play therapy activities instead of understanding the root problem.
- That scattered, "I'm just throwing things at the wall" feeling.
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