Ethics and APT Best Practice Guidelines Applied in Play Therapy – November 19, 2025 – Live/Virtual

This play therapy training is offered Live In-Person (3-Contact CE’s) and Virtual via Zoom (3- Live-Webinar CE’s).

Play therapists face numerous complex ethical dilemmas involving both children, their caregivers, and their families. These dilemmas raise emotional responses, intuitiveness, and sensations in the body as conflict arises in the play therapist surrounding how to respond. Expressive modalities will be used for processing dilemmas of the past and preparation for those in the future.

Participants will apply rules and code of ethics for their license, APT Play Therapy Best Practices, APT Paper on touch, and APT Technology Guidelines to 15+ play therapy vignettes involving ethical dilemmas. Special emphasis will be given to the following areas within APT Play Therapy Best Practices: the therapeutic relationship; parents and family; confidentiality; professional responsibility; relationship with other professionals; evaluation and assessment; supervision and consultation; technology and telehealth.

For those gray areas when there isn’t clarity, participants will have the opportunity to select from five personal moral decision-making models to apply to their own play therapy practices. Current research and recommendations for play therapy practice will be included.

Learning Objectives:
1. Select from expressive modalities to process past and future emotional responses and sensations in the body.
2. Select from five moral decision-making models to use with ethical dilemmas in play therapy
3. Apply licensing rules and code of ethics, APT Play Therapy Best Practices, Paper on Touch, and technology guidelines with 20 play therapy vignettes
4. Describe current research for play therapy practice, recommendations, and guidelines of boards and associations regarding the use of social media and telehealth sessions
5. Evaluate personal play therapy professional practices with current rules, recommendations, and guidelines

DR. RHONDA JOHNSON
LPC-S, LMFT-S, RPT-S, TBRI PRACTITIONER, EMDR CONSULTANT, SOMATIC EXPERIENCING™ PRACTITIONER IN TRAINING

She is the founder and owner of the Center for Counseling and Family Relationships, a large, thriving group practice that was established in 2007 and specializes in family systems and trauma-informed approaches. Dr. Johnson is also the founder and owner of CCFAM Training, established in 2012, offering a 40 CE supervision course and ethics courses. She is also the owner of Play Therapy Training Resources, established in 2021. Through those companies, she provides continuing education, supervision, and consultations. She is also a teaching fellow for B.H. Carroll Seminary.

Dr. Johnson has supervised Interns and Associates since 2007, both individually and in groups, as well as virtually and live. She has also provided supervision for supervisees within her practice, for those outside of her practice, and for supervisees with multiple sites including community agencies, adoption agencies, and churches.

Cancellation and Refund Policy:
This training is non-refundable, unless cancelled by training provider. Event will be cancelled if fewer than 5 participants.
Center for Counseling and Family Relationships Training has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7105. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Center for Counseling and Family Relationships Training is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.