Why Does Congruence Matter in Play Therapy?
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What can neuroscience tell us about creating a strong therapeutic relationship that allows our clients to feel safe during the change process? 🤔
Congruence in play therapy is the ability to align our internal experiences with our external expressions of unconditional positive regard and empathy.
Our resonance circuits, as termed by Daniel Siegel in his book Mindsight, discusses the role of resonance circuitry when connecting in sessions with clients to facilitate change.
Learning to use these key elements to facilitate healing in play therapy is a core competency in play therapy.
This includes working with parents so they can be the therapeutic agents of change for their children.
Join me for this weekly podcast, I’ll discuss what neuroscience can tell us about developing congruence and why it’s important in play therapy.
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1. Why Does Congruence Matter in Play Therapy? (00:00:00)
2. Intro (00:00:02)
3. Today's topic (00:02:04)
4. Defining Congruence (00:05:04)
5. Developing therapeutic use of self (00:06:47)
6. Grounding in a theoretical model (00:07:35)
7. How do resonance circuits play play a part in this process? (00:16:36)
8. What age do you stop meeting with parents? (00:18:30)
9. Recognize internal experiences and how it shows up externally (00:23:09)
10. Why does congruence matter? (00:30:54)
11. Recap of today's discussion (00:32:56)
12. Resources - Play Therapy Academy (00:35:58)
13. Outro (00:39:14)
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