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Play Therapy: 5 Reasons Why It’s So Effective

Play Therapy: 5 Reasons Why It’s So Effective

by Valerie Wilson-Lindberg, LCSW | Feb 1, 2019 | Play Therapy

  “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood,” by Fred Rogers. As this quote from the iconic “Mr. Rogers” reminds us, it has not been long in our...
Back To School Tips for Parents and Caregivers

Back To School Tips for Parents and Caregivers

by Valerie Wilson-Lindberg, LCSW | Aug 2, 2018 | Classroom, How to, Parenting Tips

…32 days 5 hours and 42 minutes! Are you counting down? Maybe counting down the days, hours and minutes until the chaos ends and you have your house back! Or are you counting down the hours until you have to give up the lazy days of summer, have to navigate the...

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