Unlocking Play: Healing Through Creativity and Connection

Kayla Falgout is a licensed counselor in the state of Louisiana who explores the use of creative and somatic approaches in therapy. She shares her transformative journey from initially working with adults and the elderly, to embracing her calling in play therapy with children. She details that journey in her personalized music internship for Alzheimer's patients, which revealed to Kayla the power of creative interventions. And she emphasizes embodiment and felt experience in therapy, aiming to break the cycle of trauma from an early age and offering hope to those she serves. Explaining three main aspects of technique for play therapy, she succinctly covers what makes a play therapist unique in working with children, and what those parents who have children in play therapy can expect from that unique relationship.

Kayla Falgout Psychology Today Profile

Kayla Falgout Authenticity Center Bio

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The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living by Hillary L. McBride

Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors by Robyn Gobbel

Peter Levine training through PESI

Therapy Garden Trainings