PLAY PRESCRIPTION®
You don't need to be a therapist to help a child heal and grow.
Most of us were never taught how healing and growth actually happen. Play Prescription® translates the principles child therapists use every day into practical tools for parents, professionals and organisations.
WHY PLAY PRESCRIPTION® EXISTS
The therapist's lens shouldn't stay locked inside the therapy room.
For decades, the understanding of how children heal and grow has lived with trained therapists - while the parents, teachers and professionals who are actually with children every day have been left with strategies, advice and information that doesn't hold up in the real moments. Play Prescription® exists to change that. It takes the child therapist lens - the one therapists train for years to develop - and makes it practical and useable beyond the therapy room. Because the child in front of you will meet the child inside you, and true transformation happens when we have the tools to heal and grow alongside the children we care for. One framework. Multiple applications. Grounded in evidence.
Read Our StoryHEALING AND GROWTH
Healing doesn't happen through information alone.
It happens through four things - and they're available to everyone, not just therapists.
Relationship
Safe, attuned relationships are where healing begins. The relationship is the intervention.
Experience
Knowing something isn't the same as changing it. New experiences are what actually change a pattern.
Reflection
Understanding your own story - and how it shapes what you see in the child in front of you.
Therapeutic Play
Play is how children make sense of the world. It creates the conditions where healing happens.
WHO IT'S FOR
One framework. Multiple applications.
Parents
Understand what's underneath your child's behaviour, break inherited cycles, and grow alongside your child through reflection and therapeutic play.
Professionals
Bring the child therapist lens into your existing role - teaching, social work, counselling, nursing, coaching or early childhood education.
Organisations
Schools, government, NGOs and community organisations - training, keynotes and consulting built on the framework.
LEARN WITH PLAY PRESCRIPTION®
Here's the framework. Here are the ways to learn it.
Breaking Cycles Without Breaking Yourself™
An online course for parents ready to move from overwhelm to intentional presence, alongside their kids. Break the cycle without breaking yourself.
Explore the Course →Play Prescription® Certification
Think like a child therapist. Transform your practice. A complete, practical framework for professionals who work with children and families.
Explore Certification →Think Like a Child Therapist - Editions
Practical kits for understanding one specific challenge at a time through the framework - starting with the Separation Edition. Lessons, journal, therapeutic play ideas and weekly experiments.
Explore the Course →Workshops
Short courses, masterclasses, professional development and parent workshops - focused entry points into the framework.
See Workshops →Consult with the Founder
Need personalised guidance? Book a consultation with Dr Sam Casey - tailored support for parents, practitioners and organisations.
Visit DrSamCasey.com →EVIDENCE
Grounded in research. Built on practice.Â
The Play Prescription® Framework is built on a PhD in Psychology, evidence-based play therapy principles, and over 20 years of clinical experience with children and families. Research consistently shows that when parents and professionals apply therapeutic play principles, outcomes for children improve significantly.
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