CLINICIAN SESSION | Staying Child-Centered in School: Using Play Therapy Skills Across Every Tier of Support
Fri, Sep 25
|Zoom
Participants will learn practical ways to use foundational play therapy skills—including tracking, reflection of feeling and content, facilitating choice and responsibility, encouragement, and therapeutic limit setting—within the time, space, and role constraints of school settings.
Time & Location
Sep 25, 2026, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT
Zoom
About the event
3-Hour Live Zoom Training | Beginning–Intermediate
School counselors and school-based mental health professionals work in environments filled with competing demands. Teachers need help with behavior, administrators want solutions and caregivers have concerns. Meanwhile, students are waiting at your door.
The child is in the middle of this whirlwind. How do we stay grounded in a child-centered way of being when the systems around us continually pull us toward directing, fixing, managing, and solving?
This three-hour experiential training explores how school-based clinicians can bring the principles and skills of Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT) into the realities of the school environment. Participants will examine how the child-centered therapeutic stance can inform not only individual play therapy, but brief student contacts, small groups, classroom support, consultation, and prevention and intervention efforts across a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS).
Participants will learn practical ways to use foundational play therapy skills—including tracking, reflection of feeling…