How to Write Play Therapy Progress Notes

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If you’re a play therapist and you have struggled to write progress notes that make sense without draining your brain, then you are definitely not alone.

Maybe you feel confused and overwhelmed about writing play therapy notes because you have no idea what to write that makes sense and doesn’t sound like you just played for an hour with your client. 😂

These are the struggles of many play therapists.

Writing play therapy progress notes can be exhausting, confusing, and frustrating.

If that’s you, then I have good news for you!

Join me for this free weekly podcast I’ll discuss tips for writing play therapy progress notes so they look professional and accurately document your play therapy sessions.

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Chapitres

1. How to Write Play Therapy Progress Notes (00:00:00)

2. Intro (00:00:01)

3. Today's topic (00:00:46)

4. Common struggles with writing progress notes (00:02:22)

5. Using a framework for writing progress notes (00:06:48)

6. Different frameworks (00:06:59)

7. Using the hero's journey to tell the client's story (00:13:29)

8. Your play therapy theoretical model is the language that you're using to write the story (00:18:15)

9. Recap of today's discussion (00:21:31)

10. Resources - Getting Grounded in Play Therapy Progress Notes (00:24:00)

11. Outro (00:27:23)