Courses for Mental Health Professionals
Professional courses are separated by their original training business: Wonders Training first, then Mindfulness-Based Therapy Training Institute.
Wonders Training
Professional training and continuing education from the original Wonders training catalog.
20 Creative Play Therapy Interventions with Anxiety for Older Children
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents a recorded 90 minute webinar full of ideas for how best to work with older children who have anxiety using creative and expressive play-based activities.
A Neurobiological Approach To Play Therapy
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour live recording of a previously online interactive training webinar with a thorough overview of foundational neurobiology and play therapy.
Authentic and Effective Marketing for Mental Health Business
Marketing your mental health related services has to be handled in a way that is AUTHENTIC and TRANSPARENT in order to align with your integrity as a professional. This mini marketing class is only ONE HOUR long and I’ll teach you the formula that has always worked for keeping my practice full.
Awkward Moments with Parents in Play Therapy
Do you find yourself stumbling in conversations with parents, find it difficult to give feedback or share your observations, or generally have a sense of unease when working directly with parents?
Bibliotherapy: The Magic of Bringing Books into the Play Room
In this 2-hour recorded webinar Lynn Louise Wonders will take a look at the best ways to utilize children’s books in the play room to assist in helping children in their process of healing and growth.
Building Rapport and Establishing the Relationship in Play Therapy
Building Rapport & Establishing the Relationship in Play Therapy Through a Combination of Foundational Child Centered Play Therapy & Directive Play-based Techniques.
Cognitive Behavioral Play therapy with OCD
This is a 4 hour in-depth training recorded from a live webinar in which Lynn Louise Wonders go in-depth into the use of the theoretical approach of Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy for treating OCD in child clients.
Creating the Magical Container
Creating the Magical Container is Heather FD’s offering on how exactly she makes incredibly deep connections with parents and caregivers. You’ll get the bullet points to her approach to working with parents, a look at the neuroscience involved, as well as seasonal interventions designed to create and deepen the container for parents to find felt safety and fully engage in the change-making process with their children. It’s neuroscience and relational magic all rolled into one, complete with experientials and answers to your questions.
Creative and Affordable Play Therapy Interventions and Items
Come and learn with Lynn Louise Wonders how and why to recycle and reuse everyday items into useful, fun items and games to utilize in the play therapy room! You'll receive 20 innovative and affordable play therapy interventions in this 90 minute training.
Creative and Expressive Play Therapy Interventions for Children Ages 4–11
Facilitating experiences for children in the play room using creative and expressive activities can be a part of the psycho-education piece of treatment along with an opportunity for children to show what they are experiencing, seeing, feeling in their inner world.
Directive Play Therapy Techniques
This 2 hour live online interactive training webinar will provide therapists an overview of the nature of directive play therapy along with theoretical foundations and specific interventions and techniques for implementation as part of a goal directed play therapy treatment plan.
Effective Treatment of Selective Mutism in Young Children with Play Therapy
This course teaches a prescriptive play therapy approach to treating selective mutism based on what the research says is most effective in treating young children including a combination of child centered play therapy, lightly structured play therapy and more directive cognitive behavioral play therapy and behavioral play-based interventions based upon the symptom severity measured by observations and reports using behavioral rating scales and interview consultations.
Ethical Play Therapy In Home and School Settings
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar about how you can provide ethical play therapy services in the home and school environments.
Evidence Based Play Therapy: Research Supported Treatment Planning
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar citing evidence based research and treatment planning for play therapy. This course is a good foundational course for clinicians seeing child clients.
Facilitating Healthy Gender Development
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 30 minute recorded presentation to provide a basic but very important understanding of what therapists, teachers and other caring adults can do to help children have healthy gender development. This course is a great precursor to Susan Radzilowski's training presentation on gender affirming care also available on this learning platform.
Facilitative Play Therapy Interventions for Children with Emotion Dysregulation
This recorded 2 hour webinar previously led live by Lynn Louise Wonders addressed the neuroscience of emotion dysregulation and provides training in how to help children experientially in the safety of the therapeutic alliance learn how to find soothing, coping and self-acceptance through the experience of big emotions.
Family Therapy for Play Therapists
Are you uncertain of how, when, and why to do family work in play therapy? Let’s talk about involving family members because outcomes are better for children when their families are involved in therapy! Join Heather FD for another Playful Integration workshop: The Whys & Hows of Family Therapy for Play Therapists. Heather FD gives you all her tips for family play sessions that help kids and their parents make progress and heal. You'll also get the Playful Integration resource list on Working with Parents in Play Therapy.
Fostering Emotional Intelligence through Play Therapy for Children and Parents
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar full of theory and interventions for helping children and parents with emotional awareness and regulation.
Fun and Effective Play Therapy Interventions for Family Sessions
This short training is packed with practical ways you can help families in the play room using play based techniques and activities previously led live by Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, RPT-S, CPCS.
Helping Parents Attune in Play Therapy
Do you have difficulty helping parents lean into the play therapy process? This is Heather’s dynamic workshop on Helping Parents Attune in Play Therapy. You asked for it and here it is, by popular vote! This practical 1 hour workshop will give you all Heather’s best tips, tools, and interventions to support you in the sometimes challenging work of helping parents develop and hone their ability to attune to their children.
Hyperarousal in the Playroom: A Playful Integration Workshop
This Playful Integration workshop is especially for child therapists providing play therapy, addressing how to identify, understand and work with hyper arousal in the playroom. Hyper arousal is our fight or flight sympathetic nervous system response that serves to mobilize us when we perceive a threat or a challenge so that we can keep ourselves safe.
Identifying and Navigating Parental Alienation in Play Therapy
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded training that outlines the history and reality of what parental alienation is, what it is not and how to identify and navigate these difficult dynamics when providing play therapy services.
Including Parents in the Play Room
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar on a number of theoretical based ways you can include parents in the playroom with child clients as a part of your play therapy treatment plan.
Leave a Legacy! Create and Publish a Children’s Book
Come and learn with author Lynn Louise Wonders by hearing about the successes and mistakes she has made along the way and what she learned. Her transparency and willingness to share the triumphs AND the pitfalls is invaluable in your own learning experience.
Mindfulness in Play Therapy With Children
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar providing a definition, benefits and overview of the practice of mindfulness and it's connection to the theoretical basis for play therapy services. This course provides practical skills and methods therapists can utilize in the play therapy room with child clients.
Mirror Magic: Projective Imagery and the Felt Sense
From Playful Integration’s Relational Magic in the Playroom Series - Mirror Magic: Projective Imagery & the Felt Sense. This is a workshop with lots of experientials focused on helping you hone your reflective and interoceptive awareness. Heather offers interventions that help us hone that part of ourselves deep inside our bodies that tells us “what’s up” in the playroom. How do we get really good at feeling the signals our nervous system is giving us? Come explore your somatic knowing with Heather FD. You'll learn about mirror neurons, the nervous system, projective processes, the Shadow self in the playroom, and more.
Money Matters: A Workshop for Helping Professionals
Join me and other helping professionals who came together live and recorded this workshop for you to enjoy at your own pace. This workshop is an investment in your relationships with your career and financial success. This is a business development workshop you can write-off on your taxes. A receipt will be provided.
Navigating High Conflict Divorce and Custody Cases
This course is a sort of insurance policy for you and your practice. Don't wait until you've been served with a subpoena. Don't wait until you are in over your head! Be well prepared so you can be confident and be less affected by the anxiety that often accompanies high conflict cases. Every counselor, social worker, therapist and psychologist who provides psychotherapy for children and families needs to be well prepared for the inevitability of high conflict divorce and custody disputes that come with the territory of providing child therapy.
Parent-Child Connection in Divorce with Play Therapy
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar on how you as a child therapist can help parents and children be and stay connected through the process of parents' divorce.
Parent-Child Reunification Play Therapy
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded provides therapists an interactive training opportunity to learn about the very specialized process of supporting and facilitating reunification between parents and children when there has been alienation and/or estrangement through play therapy treatment planning and specific interventions.
Play Therapy 101: Foundations and Basic Skills
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this very thorough foundational 3 hour previously live online interactive training webinar that covers history, theory and skills you need to get started providing play therapy services.
Play Therapy Across the Life Span: Therapeutic Play for All Ages
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this audio recording of a live tele-seminar in which you will be led through the 8 stages of human development and learn how you can use play therapy with people of ALL AGES! You will receive specific interventions and ideas for treatment plans involving play regardless of the age of your client.
Play Therapy and The Perfectionistic Child
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar covering theory and practical interventions for how best to work with children showing signs of perfectionistic tendencies using play therapy.
Play Therapy Interventions with Night and Bedtime Anxiety
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar on the nature of anxiety some young children have at night/bedtime and how to help children and their parents with the use of play therapy. You will learn theoretical based skills and methods for providing effective interventions.
Play Therapy with Anxiety Disorders
This 2 hour recorded online training webinar with Lynn Louise Wonders provides training regarding anxiety disorders in children along with an overview in 3 seminal theories that provide effective play therapy approaches for addressing both the symptoms and the underlying basis for anxiety disorders in child clients.
Play Therapy with Children Experiencing Grief and Loss
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar about how grief and loss presents in children of various ages and a number of interventions and techniques for implementation.
Play Therapy with Children with Sibling Rivalry and Jealousy
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presented this 2 hour webinar you can now access as a recorded learning enrichment course. Learn about how to work with siblings and how to address jealousy and rivalry therapeutically.
Play Therapy with Divorce
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar that addresses a thorough overview of what you need to know about treating children whose parents are divorced or divorcing using play therapy including intervention ideas.
Play Therapy with Groups of Children Ages 5-11
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar on ways you can provide play therapy to groups of young children covering a variety of focuses and topics.
Play Therapy with Items from Nature
There are myriad ways to bring a little of Nature into the play therapy room and there are plentiful benefits. This one hour webinar will explore numerous creative play therapy interventions borrowing from the items we can find free of charge out in the great outdoors to help children and adults.
Play Therapy with the Anxious Child
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar that presents theoretical basis and interventions for providing play therapy with children suffering with a variety of anxiety disorders.
Play Therapy with Tween Girls (ages 10-12)
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar about using play therapy effectively with girls ages 10-12 including play-based interventions and special strategies.
Prescriptive Play Therapy Theory and Interventions for Sibling Sessions
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour webinar previously recorded on theory and interventions for working with siblings in the playroom providing play therapy.
Prescriptive Play Therapy with Families: Theory and Interventions
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 4 hour recorded training of a previous live webinar that goes into great detail as to a trans-theoretical, prescriptive approach to helping families using play therapy.
Prescriptive Play Therapy with Generalized Anxiety Disorder
This 3.5 hour recorded webinar is a comprehensive look at how to treat children suffering from Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD). You will learn about how to recognize and diagnose this disorder and how to formulate a treatment plan that addresses the particular needs of the particular client you are seeing using a potentially trans-theoretical prescriptive play therapy approach.
Purposeful Uses for Games in the Play Room
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar on the theory and skills of using games therapeutically for children in the play room. You'll finish with a number of examples of games you can use with your child clients!
Recession-Proof Your Practice: Financial Security for Service Providers
For only $96 get confidence knowing your practice is financially secure, even in uncertain economic times. Receive clear, practical steps for immediate implementation. Have the peace of mind to continue serving your clients effectively without financial stress.
S.E.A.L. Social Emotional Awareness Literacy for Preschoolers®
A comprehensive professional training program that includes video presentations, a private Facebook group for support, reading materials, written assignments, a curriculum manual, a recommended supply kit, business training on how to market the program to preschools and more… If you love working with young children and those who teach and care for them, this will take your career to the next level.
Seminal and Historical Theories in Play Therapy
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour previously live online webinar in which she reviews the basis and tenets of all the seminal theories included in the practice of play therapy.
Subpoenas and Court in Play Therapy
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar that provides an overview of how child therapists should be prepared for what to do when receiving a subpoena and testifying in court. This course is a much briefer introduction to this topic than is provided in the comprehensive Navigating High Conflict Divorce & Custody Cases Course
Suicidal Ideation in Little Ones: Stress Management in Play Therapy
Developing stress management skills in young children is research-proven to reduce later suicidal ideation, self-harm, and suicide attempts in the adolescent years. This is the power of early intervention at its best. Heather takes you through the steps that she uses to increase a child’s ability to manage stress in a healthy way and how to reinforce that vital skill in the playroom.
Supporting Divorced and Divorcing Parents with Co-Parenting During COVID-19
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S created this 2 hour webinar during the height of the COVID19 pandemic to address the need for child and family therapists to have skills in helping parents of child clients who were either going through divorce or divorcing. Normally, it would never be recommended that a child's therapist also serve as coparenting therapist but sometimes circumstances, like the pandemic or rural location require therapists to have additional skills.
Supporting Stressed Parents in Child and Family Telehealth Therapy
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S created this 2 hour webinar during the height of the COVID19 pandemic realizing parents were experiencing high levels of stress and needed support through tele-health. Since that time, parents have continued to benefit from therapeutic support as part of the work child and family therapists do to support families through tele-health. The material in this training endures as helpful and relevant providing strategies and therapeutic interventions.
Teaching Parents About Attachment Issues
If you feel like you’re sometimes not sure how to talk to parents about attachment issues, come learn with Heather Fairlee Denbrough provide her best tips and strategies for having conversations with parents about attachment that go beyond surface level and really serve to make deep change for kids and families. You'll also get the Playful Integration resource list on Teaching Parents About Attachment.
Teaching Parents About the Nervous System
This well-loved training event presented by by Instructor Heather Fairlee Denbrough, LICSW, RPT-S, SPT-S of Playful Integrations was recorded and now available for your learning enrichment wherever you are. Come and learn how to help parents understand their child's nervous system!
The Business of Play Therapy: A 2 Hour Mini Workshop
In this 2 hour workshop, I teach you about the business side of play therapy private practice. I cover budgeting, purchasing, bookkeeping, record-keeping, marketing & networking, tele-health options, when and how to hire help. Running a successful and efficient business as a play therapist in private practice requires having systems in place that work for you. This workshop also offers a review of various platforms and software that you might consider utilizing.
The Play Therapy Process with Difficult Parents
Lynn Louise Wonders, LPC, CPCS, RPT-S presents this 2 hour recorded webinar on the personalities of parents who are challenging and numerous strategies for how to effectively navigate those difficult dynamics in the process of providing play therapy.
The Playful Integration Approach to Sand Therapy With Parents
Heather Fairlee Denbrough shares The Playful Integration approach to Sand Tray with Parents. Join Heather for a conversation about the ways that she co-creates pure magic with parents in her practice - the slow, transformative kind of magic that leaves a pearlescent watermark on the family’s life that changes things for the better. Do you want a totally different way to work with parents? Heather’s approach is slow, intentional, creative, and makes space for great vulnerability and change. Give yourself the gift of feeling confident using sand tray to enhance parent work.
Time is on Your Side: Become a Time Management Master
If it feels like time management is something you need to learn and implement more efficiently into your life, this program may be just what you’ve been looking for. If it feels like you…
Treating Adolescents With Trichotillomania Using Prescriptive Play Therapy
In this 4 hour recorded webinar Lynn Louise Wonders walks you through the diagnostic process, case conceptualization process and treatment planning specifically for treating adolescents suffering with trichotillomania using age and developmentally appropriate play and expressive therapy interventions. You will grow in your confidence for treating this disorder and enrich your knowledge base about this very complex anxiety disorder that falls under the umbrella of OCD.
Treating Trichotillomania with Play Therapy
This is a 2 hour training recorded from a live webinar presented by Lynn Louise Wonders which provides a theoretically based approach using play based interventions to address the symptoms and underlying issues that accompany the diagnosis of trichotillomania. You will learn practical knowledge that will help you to feel more confident in your diagnostic skills, your treatment planning and in developing strategies for best treating the child you are seeing in therapy.
Weaving Relationships in the Playroom
Part of the Playful Integration Relational Magic Series, join Heather FD for Weaving Relationships in the Playroom with Parents. This one is especially for anyone who’s working on involving parents more, having family therapy sessions, or if you feel like you could be having stronger relationships with parents but aren’t sure how to make that happen. Let Heather walk you through her approach to weaving parents into and all through the play therapy process from start to finish.
Young Children and Suicidal Ideation in the Playroom
Come learn about Young Children & Suicidal Ideation in the Playroom. This workshop is especially for play therapists and addresses what to look for in the playroom, how to assess risk with children, working with parents of children who experience suicidal ideation, and a robust overview of prevention/crisis planning. You'll also get my handout on Prevention Plan Strategies for Young Children.
Mindfulness-Based Therapy Training Institute
Courses from the Mindfulness-Based Therapy Training Institute, kept distinct under its own training identity.
A Mindfulness-based Approach to Combining Child Centered and Directive Play Therapy Theories and Skills
A Mindfulness-based Approach to Combining Child Centered and Directive Play Therapy Theories and Skills
A Mindfulness-Based Approach to Supporting Parents in Play Therapy: Focus on the Nervous System
Do you wish that you were more comfortable providing psychoeducation to the parents and caregivers of your child clients? Heather Fairlee Denbrough takes you through her own mindful process for teaching parents and caregivers…
A Mindfulness-based Play Therapy® Approach with Social Anxiety Disorder and Social Phobia
This 2 hour webinar will provide participants an opportunity to learn about how to utilize a mindfulness-based approach to case conceptualization and treatment planning with children suffering social anxiety and selective mutism. This presentation will provide 1 hour of play therapy seminal theory material and 1 hour of skills and methods.
Creating Your Own Rhythm of Mindfulness Through Music for Children in the Playroom
Learn from a certified music therapist the specifics of integrating music-based play therapy interventions with mindfulness-based practices. Explore playful ways to combine music and mindfulness to assist child clients with emotion regulation utilizing common…
Enhancing the Therapeutic Relationship and Client Outcomes Through Therapists’ Practice of Mindfulness
At the heart of effective psychotherapy is a well-formed and responsive therapeutic relationship. Research has identified core facets of an effective therapeutic relationship, including flexibility and responsiveness, attunement to individual differences, receiving client feedback,…
Free Course: Introduction to Mindfulness-based Play Therapy®: Theory, Skills and Methods
This 2-hour course provides a thorough overview of the foundations of Mindfulness-based Play Therapy®, including the research basis, neurobiological basis, trans-theoretical nature, and practical applications, skills, and methods. The training also explores how mindfulness…
Harnessing the Force: Mindfulness-Based Play Therapy® through a Star Wars Lens
Join an intergalactic journey where the Force meets the felt sense. In this 2-hour training, participants explore how mindfulness-based play therapy can support regulation, presence, and healing in clients of all ages. Using symbolism,…
Incorporating Movement into Mindfulness-based Therapy®
This 2-hour training provides an overview of the benefits of including movement-based interventions in psychotherapy with adults and adolescents to help clients explore and express emotions and experiences that may be difficult to verbalize.…
Integrating Mindfulness Into Clinical Practice With Young Adults
This course integrates essential concepts of mindfulness-based theory from Eastern Zen philosophy, Western contemplative practices, and Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction to help therapists use mindfulness-based psychotherapy with young adults. Core skills such…
LGBTQ+ and Play Therapy
LGBTQ+ and Mindfulness Enroll Now This 2-hour training will assist play therapists and mental health practitioners through a mindfulness-based and cultural humility-based lens to work with individuals and families in the LGBTQ community. Participants will gain a basic understanding of the Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression (SOGIE) of individuals and families and their intersectional identities in their cultural systems as they apply to play therapy intervention, skills, and methods.
Maintaining Effective Therapeutic Alliance in Play Therapy: Mindfulness-based Techniques for Clinicians to Use Inside and Outside of the Playroom
Maintaining Effective Therapeutic Alliance in Play Therapy: Mindfulness-based Techniques for Clinicians to Use Inside and Outside of the Playroom
Mindfully and Ethically Navigating Divorce Cases with Play Therapy
Divorce reshapes the landscape of a child’s world, often altering every relational thread in the family system. Shifts occur between parents… between parents and their children… among siblings… and across extended family, school, and community networks. Not all divorce cases are high conflict but when they are, it’s all the more challenging. This live training takes a close, compassionate look at how these dynamics and transitions impact children and the larger family system, and how with attention to your ETHICS, play therapy can offer a meaningful path toward healing and stability.
Mindfully Chosen Play Therapy Activities with Children’s Books
Bibliotherapy is much more than simply reading a book with a child. It can be expanded into purposeful, play-based therapeutic activities that support children throughout the play therapy journey. This training introduces a curated…
Mindfulness Activities in Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy
This course examines the integration of Mindfulness-based Play Therapy® with Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy. Participants learn specific invitational and facilitative play therapy activities that support children and families in feeling more present, connected, and…
Mindfulness and Child Centered Play Therapy
This course will invite participants to cultivate therapeutic presence with clients through an experiential mindfulness exercise. Then, anchored in present moment awareness, the instructor will guide participants through an exploration of how CCPT allows for children to experience acceptance, non-judgment, and natural growth and healing through play as the change-agent.
Mindfulness in Family Systems in Play Therapy
This two hour course teaches therapists how to guide families on a playful, mindfulness-based journey.
Mindfulness Within the Digital Playroom
This training explores the integration of mindfulness practices within the digital playroom. It offers play therapists and child mental health professionals recognition of authentic, connecting, and healing immersive experiences within the gaming space and a glimpse into mindfulness techniques tailored to the digital environment
Mindfulness-based Creative and Expressive Activities in Play Therapy
This course examines the application and integration of Mindfulness-based Play Therapy® with creative and expressive play therapy activities. Participants explore numerous creative and expressive ways to apply mindfulness-based activities and interventions in play therapy.
Mindfulness-based Play Therapy ® with Teens and their Caregivers
Research supports the use of mindfulness with adolescents experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma-related symptoms, and emotional dysregulation. This course equips clinicians with language, interventions, and psychoeducation tools to engage teens and caregivers in mindfulness-based therapy.
Mindfulness-based Play Therapy With 0-5: Centering Caregiver Engagement Through an Anti-Oppressive Lens
Early play therapy with children ages 0–5 requires a uniquely attuned, developmentally informed, and relationship-based approach. This 2-hour training explores how anti-oppressive and mindfulness-based reflective principles can guide early-phase play therapy while supporting both…
Mindfulness-based Play Therapy® for Emotion Regulation
This course is an opportunity to learn about how to utilize play therapy for emotion regulation by implementing a mindfulness-based play therapy ® approach with children who struggle with emotion dysregulation. This presentation will provide 1 hour of play therapy seminal theory material and 1 hour of skills and methods.
Mindfulness-based Play Therapy® with Attachment and Developmental Play Therapy
This course examines the integration of Mindfulness-based Play Therapy® with Attachment and Developmental Play Therapy models and theory. Participants explore ways mindfulness-based practices can enrich the therapist’s role in supporting children and caregivers with…
Mindfulness-based Play Therapy® With Children of Divorce
Mindfulness-based Play Therapy® With Children of Divorce
Mindfulness-based Play Therapy® with Ecosystemic Play Therapy
This course examines the integration of Mindfulness-based Play Therapy® with Ecosystemic Play Therapy models and theory. Participants explore how mindfulness-based practices can support children and caregivers while considering the child’s place within family, community,…
Mindfulness-based Practices in Trauma Informed Play Therapy
This course equips child and teen therapists with strategies for supporting trauma recovery through play therapy, mindfulness, and neuroscience-informed approaches. Participants explore brain development, the autonomic nervous system, the window of tolerance, and culturally…
Mindfulness-based Prescriptive Play Therapy: Attunement to the Unique Needs of Every Child and Family
Mindfulness-based Prescriptive Play Therapy: Attunement to the Unique Needs of Every Child & Family
Mindfulness-Based Sensory Exploration in the Playroom
This two-hour workshop aims to offer participants practical experience in using mindfulness-based sensory exploration with play therapy clients. It also provides clear guidance on incorporating mindfulness-based sensory play into a therapeutic playroom effectively.
Practical Applications of Polyvagal Theory and Mindfulness in Play Therapy
Practical Applications of Polyvagal Theory and Mindfulness in Play Therapy
Regulation and Co-Regulation of Emotions and Sympathetic Nervous System in Play Therapy
This three-hour live and interactive webinar material is rooted in seminal and historical play therapy theories (Adlerian, Child-Centered, Cognitive-Behavioral, Developmental, Ecosystemic Gestalt, and Jungian) and will will support your work in helping clients experience reduction in stress response and to cultivate emotional wellbeing.
Rural Play Therapy™: A Mindful Attunement to the Culturally and Socially Diverse Needs of Children Living in Rural Areas
This two-hour course provides therapists with the opportunity to learn how to use RURAL PLAY THERAPY™ to attune to the culturally and socially diverse spiritual beliefs, backgrounds, strengths, and lifestyles of children and families in rural areas.
Superheroes of the Nervous System: Polyvagal Adventures in Play Therapy
Embark on a playful exploration of the sensory nervous system and polyvagal theory. This 2-hour training uses engaging, somatic, and play-based experiences to help mental health professionals understand how nervous-system concepts can be brought…
Teaching Parents the Mindfulness Magic of FirstPlay Somatic Storytelling Touch and Attachment
This two-hour course explores how to work with parents and young children, through guiding parents on a mindfulness-based journey of using nurturing and playful touch in FirstPlay® Somatic Storytelling to cultivate deeper bonds with their children.
The Ethics of Clinician Self Care in Mindfulness-based Play Therapy®
Self-care is an ethical necessity for mental health professionals. This interactive training examines how professional ethical codes frame self-care as a responsibility and how burnout and compassion fatigue can create ethical risks. Participants explore…
Using Bibliotherapy in Play Therapy to Introduce Mindfulness
This two-hour course explores how to introduce mindfulness skills to children through the power of bibliotherapy. This course aims to equip participants with the knowledge and practical tools needed to effectively engage children during play therapy sessions using an array of children’s books that focus on slowing down and being present.
Utilizing Music Across the Lifespan in Mindfulness-Based Therapy
Learn how to utilize music across the lifespan with children, adults, families, and couples. A board-certified music therapist and counselor explores connections between lifespan development and music, including ways music can support emotional expression…