Next Level Play Therapy: A Podcast for Play Therapy Excellence

About 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.

Publisher

Cathi Spooner, LCSW, RPT-S

Category

education · education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Jan 2024

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

139 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   Family Play Therapy: Why Treating Just the Child Limits Outcomes

   Send us Fan Mail If you're a play therapist or child therapist meeting with kids weekly while updating parents on the side — this episode is for you. Individual play therapy is powerful. But when the family system stays the same, even the best playroom work has a ceiling. In this free weekly podcast, we're exploring one of the most important clinical questions in play therapy: when does individual work hit its limits — and what changes when you bring the family into the room? We cover: ...

2. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Congruence & Co-Regulation in Play Therapy

   Send us Fan Mail Congruence & Co-Regulation in Play Therapy: How Nervous System Attunement Heals Kids What does it really mean to use "therapeutic use of self" in the playroom? In this podcast episode, we go beyond the buzzwords to explore how congruence and co-regulation actually help children build their own capacity for emotion regulation. This is part three in our series on the nervous system in play therapy — and why oversimplifying this concept can get in the way of the deep, lastin...

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   23 Sept 2026

   Window of Tolerance in Play Therapy: Why Kids "Bail" on Deep Play

   Send us Fan Mail You're 20 minutes into a play therapy session. The child is in it — deep in the sandtray, the story, the metaphor. And then, without warning, they bail. Silliness. A different toy. A total tonal 180. If you've ever second-guessed yourself in that moment — wondered if you lost the thread, if they're avoiding, if the work "didn't land" — this episode is for you. That shift isn't resistance. It isn't disengagement. It's regulation happening in real time. A child's nervous system...

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

3.7 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 29 / 100

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Quality

58

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

0

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