20+
Years Experience
PhD
Top 5% Marked
1000s
Professionals Trained
🌏
International Reach
PhD
Top 5% Marked
Hi, I'm Dr Sam Casey
Registered Play Therapist, Therapist & Founder of the Play Prescription®
I've spent 20+ years working with children and families — and I created the Play Prescription® Method because I kept seeing the same gap: professionals who genuinely wanted to help, but lacked a practical framework that worked beyond the therapy room.
My PhD (marked in the top 5%) was built on one core belief: that self-awareness and inner work are just as important as clinical knowledge. That belief is at the heart of everything I teach.
What is the Play Prescription® Method?
The Play Prescription® Method is a 5-pillar framework that takes cycle-breaking, healing and growth outside the therapy room — into the hands of professionals and parents who are with children every day.
It combines the wisdom of play therapy, psychology and child development into a practical, adaptable framework — one you can implement from day one, not after 16 weeks of theory.
Childhood Experiences
Needs Underlying Behaviour
Self-Commitment
Role of the Environment
Therapeutic Play
Three ways to work together
Play Prescription® Certification
A 16-week online certification program for professionals who work with children and families. Get a complete, practical framework you can implement from day one.
Learn More →Speaking & Consultancy
Keynotes, workshops and organisational consultancy on child wellbeing, generational cycles and trauma-informed practice — for schools, conferences and organisations.
Enquire Now →"This course is like no other professional development I have attended. It challenges your own unconscious biases and explores inner child work as a priority — a key element that has been missing from trainings in order to build real, authentic connections."
— Parenting Practitioner, 9 years experience
Why I created the Play Prescription® Method
Early in my career, I found the mental health system to be broken: most trainings are targeted to mental health professionals and overlook the wisdom of those who are with children day in, day out — their parents and the professionals who work alongside them.
Even the trainings that exist often miss the fact that interacting with kids will bring up your own stuff too. Cycle-breaking requires more than knowledge — it requires new experiences, less shame, and more compassion.
That's why I created a practical method that teaches healing and growth, alongside kids — beyond the therapy room.
Ready to get certified in the Play Prescription® Method?
Join a growing community of professionals using evidence-based play therapy to break generational cycles — beyond the therapy room.