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Chronicles of A Play Therapist
by Althea T. Simpson
Trigger Warning: Chronicles of A Play Therapist focuses on trauma and the content may cause some negative emotional experiences. We encourage you to take care of your emotional needs.
Play therapy along with other expressive therapies, is a powerful vehicle of change to help individuals and families go from hurt to healing and achieve a restored sense of safety and security. Play therapy has an incredible range of therapeutic benefits and is an effective psychotherapy approach to treat trauma, mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders.
Welcome to Chronicles of A Play Therapist, a podcast that discusses mental health from a play therapy specialization. Hosted by Althea T. Simpson, witness the sheer magic of the therapeutic healing power of play as it instills hope and increase resiliency. Discover trends, treatment approaches, theory, and practical applications.
A licensed clinical social worker and a registered play therapist supervisor with an authentic and creative approach to trauma and play therapy, Althea Simpson is the Founder of Unicorn Life Training and serves as the lead presenter. She is also the Founder of Brighter Day Therapeutic Solutions, a trauma focused psychotherapy practice. She has more than eighteen years of indirect and direct clinical practice experience with children, adolescents, adults, families, organizations and corporate groups.
Heartfelt Healing is a process and a personal journey that must be navigated in one's own timing and at one's own pace. If you are a interested in learning about how healing trauma from an expressive lens can support mental health and overall well-being, Chronicles of A Play Therapist is your gateway to the therapeutic benefits of play – what it’s all about, embracing intrinsic human capacity, and how to use the imagination in the healing process. Play fosters the Hurt to Healing journey through self-exploration, post-traumatic growth, creative intelligence, awareness, and acceptance.
Every episode, we bring you resources that encourages authenticity and healing. Discover practical information focusing on theory, demonstration, practice, and observation, all of which makes play therapy MAGICAL! The information in this podcast is not intended for and should not be viewed as mental health treatment. We encourage you to reach out for professional help with qualified mental health professionals if needed. Interested in learning more about play therapy? Join Chronicles of A Play Therapist with Althea Simpson today!
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Episodes
Child-Centered Play Therapy And Parental Stress: Supporting Parents Through The Process With Sandy Stillo And Amber Bailey
45m · PublishedParental conflict, stress, anxiety, and depression increase child misbehavior and acting out. If we can help decrease this, we can better help the parents help the child. Dr. Sandy Stillo, LPC-S, CHST, and Mrs. Amber Bailey, MS, LMFT, LPC, CHST from The Counseling Spot are child therapists who believe in the power of intentional parent-centered consultation during the process of child-centered play therapy. Although child-centered play therapy is led by the child, the relationship between the therapist and the parents is just as important as their relationship with the child. In this episode, they sit down with Althea T. Simpson to emphasize the importance of consistent, standalone parent consultation sessions to allow for targeted work with parents. What is more, they also discuss the struggles mothers face when it comes to “mommy guilt,” going deep into the issues in mom-shaming as they compare themselves to their ideas of the ideal mother and how this affects the child in the process.
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Utilizing Bibliotherapy To Help Children Make A Connection To What They Are Feeling, Thinking, Or Experiencing
30m · PublishedBibliotherapy is a therapeutic technique that incorporates books and pretty much any literature, depending on your creativity, into the play therapy session with children, adolescents, adults, families, and even couples. Utilizing storytelling through fiction and non-fiction books can be very therapeutic and symbolize nurturing, depending on how you incorporate it. Bibliotherapy is adaptable and can be used by mental health professionals and parents to help clients improve social, emotional, and behavioral functioning. On today’s podcast, Althea T. Simpson shares how mental health professionals and parents use bibliotherapy to improve children’s social, emotional, and behavioral functioning.
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Children Hurt Too: The Often-Silent Victims Of Domestic Violence
49m · PublishedDomestic violence is a major concern for children. It is a social problem that impacts individuals, families, and society. Children who witness domestic violence experience emotional, mental, and social problems that can affect their developmental growth. Even if children are not hurt themselves, they can see, hear, or imagine what is happening to a parent or caregiver, making the child feel unsafe. On today’s podcast, Althea T. Simpson brings awareness to domestic violence's silent victims – the children.
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Diversifying Your Income Beyond Traditional Psychotherapy Practice With Paul "Bashea" Williams, LCSW-C, LICSW
58m · PublishedJust because you’re in the helping profession doesn’t mean that you aren’t supposed to make money. Psychotherapy practice may not be a gold mine by itself, but there are so many ways that you can diversify your income beyond traditional psychotherapy practice. Join Althea Simpson as she talks about this with Paul "Bashea" Williams, LCSW-C, LICSW. Paul is not just a psychotherapist. He is an author, business owner and speaker. Having walked his talk, Paul teaches us the importance of having a contingency financial plan and diversifying your income sources so that you can become more financially stable and independent. Ultimately, freeing yourself up from money troubles will help you show up and be more present for your clients. After all, that’s the whole point of the profession, right? Listen in and learn how to get yourself out of that poverty mindset and start living the life that you deserve.
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How Play Therapy Integrated With EMDR Therapy Helps Traumatized Children
33m · PublishedPlay therapy does not exist in a vacuum; it can be used with other modalities with the aim of enhancing the whole healing experience. In this episode, Althea Simpson sits down with Jackie Flynn, EdS, LMHC-S, RPT to talk about using Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) as a safe and effective treatment modality for treating children with trauma experiences. EMDR is a promising psychotherapy technique that targets neural connections associated with trauma and redirects them to new, positive experiences and emotions. Althea and Jackie discuss how EMDR can be integrated into play therapy treatment to help individuals work through traumatic experiences and enhance emotional resources. They also touch on how EMDR and play therapy can be used with adults, as well as the requirements for being trained and certified as an EMDR practitioner.
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Play Therapy For Adults Under Psychotherapy
19m · PublishedDoes play therapy work for adults? Traditionally, play therapy was designed to work with children below 11 or 12, but you’ll be surprised at how well it works for people beyond those ages. In this episode, Althea Simpson discusses the use of play therapy as an effective treatment modality for adults receiving psychotherapy treatment. As with children and adolescents, play therapy can help adults gain greater self-awareness to understand and process problems, including stress, anxiety and relationship issues. After all, we have been playing ever since the day we were born. There must be a good reason for that.
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Getting Started: The Business Essentials Of A Psychotherapy Private Practice
21m · PublishedYou can't build a house without a foundation. As with starting your own psychotherapy private practice, what you need before anything else is get the basics down. In this episode, Althea T. Simpson offers a checklist of business essentials to start a psychotherapy private practice. Though it is not an exhaustive list, it gives some guidance about the necessities that will help you kickstart your new venture into the right path. Join Althea as she covers the important things you need from the kind of attitude and mindset you must have, down to the legalities and paperwork of your business as well as the important platforms to have.
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Understanding Play Therapy Interventions For Black Children Affected By Racial Trauma With Arron Muller, LMSW
43m · PublishedGrowing up can be tough when you are in an environment that discriminates you based on the color of your skin, and so many Black children have to deal with the traumas and anxieties caused by racism. Especially now with the Black Lives Matter movement going strong, it has become even more important to provide the necessary mental and emotional support to the children within the community. In this episode, Althea T. Simpson sits down with Arron Muller, Licensed Master Social Worker, to address the effects of racial trauma on Black children. They then go deep into LEGO-based play therapy interventions that can help express anxieties and fear children are experiencing related to police brutality. Follow them in this conversation to know more about the pressing issues that will affect children as they go into adulthood and how we can help.
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Necessary Expressions: Allowing Black Pain Into Therapeutic Spaces
25m · PublishedWelcome to the Chronicles of a Play Therapist Podcast. In this first episode, Althea Simpson, MBA, LCSW, RPT-S introduces play therapy – an approach in expressive therapy that holds incredible potential and practice-proven effectiveness in healing the generational trauma that besets the black community through their historical and contemporary experience of racial inequality and oppression. Black pain is real. To work with black clients in healing their trauma, mental health professionals have to acknowledge and give due consideration to that pain. Althea fully recognizes that fact and has created a community geared towards healing racial trauma. Through this podcast, Althea will walk you through this unique modality that will help you deal with these racial wounds and step forward from being hurt to being healed.
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Chronicles of A Play Therapist has 19 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 13:10:25. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on August 21st 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 22nd, 2023 01:19.
