38 | Q&A: How To Manage Your Schedule With Non-Weekly Clients

As part of the "mindset" of being a private practice play therapist, you have to value your time. Especially because we have clients (kids) who mainly can only come to see you during non-school hours (2-7pm). We all want perfect schedules with no "holes" so that our time is perfectly optimized. Listener Amber emailed me and asked how I handle clients who are bi-weekly, or monthly. These periodic clients can really cause havoc to your schedule and impact billable time. In this episode, I explain how I effectively juggle all my bi-weekly and monthly clients so that I have the fewest "holes" possible.   Specific topics:

• "Marinators" and "Security Blanket" clients: How to deal with them
• How to better handle the termination process
• How to fill the holes

    Podcast HQ: https://www.playtherapypodcast.com Play Therapy Training HQ: https://www.playtherapynow.com Email me: brenna@thekidcounselor.com Follow me on Twitter: @thekidcounselor   https://twitter.com/thekidcounselor   References: Cochran, N., Nordling, W., & Cochran, J. (2010). Child-Centered Play Therapy (1st ed.). Wiley.  VanFleet, R., Sywulak, A. E., & Sniscak, C. C. (2010). Child-centered play therapy. Guilford Press.  Landreth, G. L. (2002). Play therapy: The art of the relationship (2nd ed.). Brunner-Routledge. Bratton, S. C., Landreth, G. L., Kellam, T., & Blackard, S. R. (2006). Child parent relationship therapy (CPRT) treatment manual: A 10-session filial therapy model for training parents. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group. Benedict, Helen. Themes in Play Therapy. Used with permission to Heartland Play Therapy Institute.