6 episodes
FAPT Presentation
A six-part recording of Dr. Brenna Hicks’s Florida Association for Play Therapy workshop on the foundations, principles, four pillars, and therapeutic timeline of child-centered play therapy.
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Podcast series
Explore focused collections from the Play Therapy Podcast. Each series brings related episodes together so you can study a topic from beginning to end.
38 episodes
Play Therapy Themes
Explore the recurring themes children express through play and learn how to recognize them while remaining grounded in the child-centered model.
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Summer School
A guided return to the classical child-centered play therapy texts, principles, and therapist qualities that form the foundation of the model.
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Session Savvy
Refine the language and moment-to-moment responses you use in the playroom while avoiding subtle departures from classical CCPT.
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Mastering Neutrality
Learn what therapeutic neutrality really means in CCPT and how letting go of expectations and control strengthens the relationship and the process.
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CCPT Purism
Trace the development of child-centered play therapy from Rogers through Landreth and explore the principles that preserve the model’s integrity.
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CCPT Mindset
Examine the beliefs, expectations, and everyday language that can quietly pull therapists away from a fully child-centered way of being.
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Art of the Session
A practical, start-to-finish framework for conducting confident and theoretically consistent child-centered play therapy sessions.
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CCPT Gamechangers
Small but consequential changes in language, toys, and therapist responses that can bring your work into closer alignment with CCPT.
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CCPT Mythbusters
A direct examination of common misconceptions about children, therapy, and the child-centered model—and why those assumptions do not hold up.
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What’s Wrong with Our Field?
A candid series examining the training, practices, assumptions, and systems that can undermine effective child-centered play therapy.
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