Miss Piper's Playroom: Helping Sal with Social Anxiety

This book is a part of the therapeutic children's book series Miss Piper's Playroom. In this book, Miss Piper who is a therapist who uses play-based and creative-expressive therapy interventions with children and families. In this book, Sal is a child suffering from social anxiety which shows up as selective mutism and occasional school-refusal. Sal's feelings are BIG and SCARY and Miss Piper helps Sal to feel her feelings and work through them to experience building toward a new experience in the therapy. Miss Piper uses games, art, playful activities and even a play therapy group to help Sal with social anxiety. Miss Piper also works with Sal's parents closely as a team. This book is an excellent tool for therapists to use to acquaint children with social anxiety to the process of play therapy and expressive-creative therapies and to inspire various interventions. There is a Therapist's Corner in the back of the book with additional tips and ideas. Author Lynn Louise Wonders is a licensed and certified professional counselor-supervisor (LPC, CPCS) and a registered play therapist- supervisor (RPT-S) having provided counseling support for children, families and adults for over 20 years and she is the author of multiple books and academic chapters in other books all available on Amazon. Ms. Wonders trains, supervises and supports child and family therapists all around the globe.