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Lessons from the Playroom

Dec 26, 2023

Original Air Date: November 8, 2022

In this episode the tables are turned and the lovely Jackie Flynn, host of the Play Therapy Community Podcast/Facebook group and the Neuroscience of Play Therapy Summits, interviews Lisa about how play therapy and being a play therapist has become a spiritual practice for her over...


Dec 19, 2023

Join Lisa Dion and Tracy Turner-Bumberry in this episode to explore the fascinating world of mandalas and their application in our work with children (... a super cool and likely unexplored tool in your clinical practice). In today's conversation, Tracy will unravel the mystery behind mandalas and share her insights...


Dec 12, 2023

Original Air Date: April 15, 2018

Lisa Dion is joined by Jessica Schaffer, Registered Play Therapist, Certified Synergetic Play Therapist and Certified Sleep Consultant to help us understand sleep issues for children.

From the refusal to go to sleep to an inability to stay asleep, a child’s tossing and turning speak...


Dec 5, 2023

Original Air Date: March 15, 2021

Sometimes we can get stuck in either/or thinking when it comes to whether we use non-directive or directive play therapy modalities. 

But what if we could understand the significance and potential for both? What if we could go beyond to see that one is not better than the other? And...


Nov 28, 2023

We’re so excited for this next topic. It’s a topic that’s never been addressed on this podcast series and a topic that is rarely explored in the  field of play therapy. So settle in, grab something to take notes because Lisa is joined by Ludmila (Mila) Golovine to talk about using interpreters in play therapy.