by Keller, Ph.D., LCMHCS, RPT-S | Apr 7, 2020 | Emotional Regulation & Wellness, Play Therapy
When my husband deployed to Afghanistan a couple of years ago, we had a rough idea of how long he would be gone. I made a chain of 220 paper rings. At the end of each day, my four boys and I broke one of the paper rings off. This helped my younger children visualize...
by Keller, Ph.D., LCMHCS, RPT-S | Mar 27, 2020 | Play Therapy, Wonder
Dear Helpers, I see you. As a psychotherapist who has experience working in trauma and grief, I have a sense of the space you are holding. I know well the raw emotions that are emerging. I know that holding this space requires all of you: the presence of body, mind,...
by Keller, Ph.D., LCMHCS, RPT-S | Mar 27, 2020 | Community Building, Emotional Regulation & Wellness, Parenting, Play Therapy, Wonder
I am not homeschooling my children. I am schooling them from home. Not only that, but I am also getting my children through the first crisis in their lives, a global crisis. I am a mother first. My children are human beings first. I am balancing getting them through...
by Keller, Ph.D., LCMHCS, RPT-S | Feb 18, 2020 | Play Therapy, Wonder
Every year, the Association for Play Therapy promotes “National Play Therapy Week” in February. This year, I had the pleasure of giving play therapy workshops in Port Antonio, Jamaica, during National Play Therapy Week, which was celebrated Feb. 2-8. The...
by Keller, Ph.D., LCMHCS, RPT-S | May 9, 2019 | Community Building, Play Therapy
Before I write about my experience using theater and expressive arts in community building, I’d like to make a disclaimer. I have zero theater experience. Except, of course, that one play in third grade in which everybody got a part. That was enough for me to...
by Keller, Ph.D., LCMHCS, RPT-S | Apr 20, 2019 | Parenting, Play Therapy, Wonder
Yesterday, Facebook sent me a “memory” that reminded me of the wonder in the everyday moment. It went like this: Me to my son: Make a wish (as he was about to blow a dandelion). My son: I wish with all my might that I may blow all the seeds off this...
