Description Do you ever struggle with weaving EMDR phases into your play therapy practice? Join Christy Graham, EMDR Consultant, as she introduces the Fairy Tale Model of EMDR developed by Ricky Greenwald. This imaginative and empowering story follows a kingdom facing a terrible dragon—offering a playful, accessible way...
Description: This six-hour seminar series offers a comprehensive look at the roots of play therapy and the seminal theories that continue to shape the field today. Designed to be completed in one-hour segments over a two-month period, this flexible format allows clinicians to explore key historical...
Desciption This dynamic workshop equips play therapists and mental health professionals with research-supported discipline frameworks designed to enhance caregiver consultations within the play therapy process. Through an integration of Ecosystemic Play Therapy (EPT) and Attachment Theory (AT), participants will learn how to translate complex discipline models into practical, parent-friendly...
Description Grief in children often looks different than it does in adults, and play therapy offers a unique and powerful way to support them through that process. This training will give clinicians practical tools and insight into how to use play therapy to help children navigate...
Description Therapy with adolescents requires flexible, developmentally appropriate play therapy approaches that address presenting concerns while building strong therapeutic rapport. This is an experiential and informative training designed to equip play therapists with practical skills for working effectively with teen clients in the play therapy room....
Description: This introductory training offers play therapists a hands-on exploration of Sandtray Therapy, a develolapmentally appropriate, expressive modality that supports children and adolescents in safely accessing and processing their inner worlds. Rooted in the principles of play therapy, sand tray work allows clients to use miniatures...
Description: Looking for a training that provides you with all the essentials to be a successful Play Therapy Supervisor? This workshop provides electronic resources to simplify documentation with the newest experience, supervision, and education requirements for your supervisees throughout the phases. The training combines ready-to-use activities...
Description: Autism does not refer to one single experience; it covers a broad range of neurodevelopmental differences, affecting relationships, behaviors, emotional experience, and the client’s experience in the world. For this reason, being a Play Therapist with clients experiencing autism is not a “paint by numbers”...
Description Play therapists need help navigating from the first contact with a parent looking for child therapy to the witness chair in a family court situation. Each twist and turn of the journey, Christy will put on her captain's hat and share information from national sources...
Description Play therapists face complex ethical dilemmas involving both children, their guardians, and other caregivers. Moral decision-making models; considerations, goals, and models for inclusion, diversity, and equity; research; and APT publications will be applied to ethical vignettes experienced in play therapy practice. With an advocacy role in...
Description: There are times as play therapists when the needs of our clients are beyond the scope of our practice. This can be scary! Where do you send them? How do you know this was the right choice? How do you speak to the client and...
Course Description: This play therapy training is offered On Demand as a go-at-your-own-pace course for non-contact hours. Does EMDR and Play Therapy work for children and young people experiencing ADHD and Autism? The answer is yes. Those who are neurodivergent can experience the full beauty of EMDR...
Description: Therapy with teens involves adaptive techniques to address various presenting symptoms while considering an adolescent’s developmental level and establishing strong rapport. Engaging Teens Creatively with Play Therapy is an informational and experiential training that provides therapists the opportunity to gain skills for the therapy...
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...