My teenage daughter and I started doing play therapy together after years of constant conflict, but she keeps testing whether I'm going to snap back into 'parent mode' during our sessions and I keep catching myself wanting to correct her or teach her something. We both want this to work but we don't know how to drop our usual roles with each other.
More people experience this than they realize.
A parent and child are trying to access a different way of relating through play but their established patterns of authority and resistance keep interfering with genuine connection.
“Where Are You with Play therapy?”
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