Description: This play therapy training is offered On-Demand as a go-at-your-own pace course for non-contact hours. Play therapists face numerous ethical dilemmas involving both children and their families. In this experiential workshop, participants will apply state rules, codes of ethics, and APT Best Practice Guidelines to...
Course Description: This play therapy training is offered On Demand as a go-at-your-own-pace course for non-contact hours. Family play therapy techniques can facilitate exploration and opportunities for change in every member of the family system. Using an Ecosystemic Family Systems approach, goals and progression for family play...
Course Description: This training is a beginner’s introduction to information about child, adolescent, and family experiences of gender identity that present in play therapy. This training explores the value of clarifying terms related to sex, gender, and identity with children, adolescents, and their caregivers. A description...
Course Description: In this training, participants will learn how to target material relating to the child’s early attachment wounds, including targets without an explicit memory. Participants will identify specific stabilization skills useful in the playroom for reducing dysregulation relating to developmental trauma. Steps for implementing an...
Prerequisites: This training requires participants to first take an EMDR basic training before taking this advanced training. Participants are required to be post basic training, however, are not required to be certified in EMDR. Description: In this training, participants will learn how to target material relating to the...
Description: Electronically Dependent Generation: The Impact on Play Therapy is an intriguing, informational training that gives the history of development of electronic devices and screens, the average use of these devices, and the impact on individuals and relationships. The training explains how video games, social media,...
Description: This training is geared towards play therapists who did not have formal play therapy training as a part of their education. The basics of play therapy history, theory, toy selection, and skills will be included to expand knowledge for working with children in a way...
Description: Dissociation is a disconnect from emotions, body sensations, thoughts, memories, and/or identity. In play therapy it can look like explosive behavior, clients presenting as “shell shocked”, self-injuring behavior, or bizarre mood and personality shifts. Oftentimes these are the children who fall through the cracks and...
Description: For children who have experienced complex trauma, play therapy provides children with an opportunity for a safe space and a meaningful attuned relationship. Incorporatingresearch from Trust Based Relational Intervention, EMDR, and Somatic ExperiencingTM, the therapist can give the child a voice through directive play therapy...
Description: One of the most powerful and dynamic factors in play therapy is the relationship between therapist and child. Transference and countertransference can contribute togrowth or a resistance to change in play therapy. Following Polyvagal Theory, the therapist lends his or her feelings, focus, and environment...