Somatic Experiential Play Therapy Bundle

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What’s Inside?

Play Therapy Documentation Note

Have you been trying to figure out how to best document child directed play therapy sessions in an ethical and complete way? If so, this download is for you. We’ve created a progress note that allows you to track affect, play stages and themes, content, and parent interaction, and a brief mental status exam all in one place. `

This note can be edited to include your practice logo, additional affect states or themes, as well as any additional sections you may want to include to meet the needs of your specific modality.

Stages of Somatic Experiential Play Therapy

When using the SEPT modality, it is critical to explain the process to parents. Children who participate in SEPT often experience distress in a way that causes behavior regression when they dive into their pain. If we don’t predict this regression to parents, they will lose trust in the efficacy of the process.

This download lays out the stages of SEPT and what to expect throughout therapy as it pertains to the client’s behavior. The infographic is a visual way to describe the behavior changes we expect to happen in a way that helps to build trust in the process.

Common Play Based Metaphors Infographic

Understanding metaphor is an essential piece to providing sound Somatic Experiential Play Therapy. It can be so hard to remember what the most commonly used toys represent in the play of our kiddos. This download serves as a pocket reference for the metaphors that we will see on a daily basis in the playroom. When we understand the metaphor, we can reflect and play in a way that more effectively facilitates the mobilization of stuck trauma energy, therefore leading to healing!

List of Playroom Toys

One of the most time consuming parts of entering into the world of play therapy is designing, outfitting, and setting up a playroom. New therapists may have the urge to collect whatever toys they are able to find, but selecting toys for the playroom should be a purposeful and informed process. It is important that we choose toys that further the therapeutic goals of the space, create an environment of regulation, and encourage mobilization of fight or flight energy.

This download provides a springboard for the types of symbolic toys we need in the playroom to facilitate thematic play. It is organized into play themes in order to help you best conceptualize how to arrange and organize the room in a way that allows the play to flow from one theme into another.

List of Playroom Toys for Telehealth, In-Home, or School Based Play Therapy

Play therapy doesn’t need to happen in a playroom to be successful. In order to create a mobile play therapy set up you don’t need much! This handout will help support you in creating a “therapy box” that houses specialized thematic toys to be used in therapy. As an in-home or school based therapist, you will bring this therapy box with you. Or if you are using telehealth, you will equip the parents to create a similar therapy box with toys from the home. These toys will be exclusively for this purpose and are not to be used on a day to day basis.

This download will help you (or the parent) amend the traditional child-directed play list in a way that is usable in other settings. It will also lay out how to set up a contained environment to play within in order to invite safe and powerful symbolic play.