What Every Parent Should Know About Trauma, Therapy & Lasting Healing with Mallory Kurkosky

What Every Parent Should Know About Trauma, Therapy & Lasting Healing with Mallory Kurkosky

July 6, 2026 · 50 min · Season 4 · Episode 228

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Mallory Kurkosky discusses the importance of play therapy in helping children process emotions and the role of parents in supporting healing.

Send us Fan Mail Why do children leave therapy saying, “We just played”? In this conversation, licensed mental health therapist and registered play therapist supervisor Mallory Kurkosky explains how evidence-based play therapy helps children process emotions and experiences they can't always put into words. We discuss supporting teens who resist therapy, how parents can use validation and emotional regulation to shift family dynamics, and why healing often begins with the adults. Mallory also...

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