Participants will examine the relationship between trauma, imagination, and symbolic expression while learning how CCPT principles support emotional regulation, relational safety, and increasing imaginative flexibility.

Participants will examine the relationship between trauma, imagination, and symbolic expression while learning how CCPT principles support emotional regulation, relational safety, and increasing imaginative flexibility.

Join Jen for an evening livestream while she spends the week at UNT's Center for Play Therapy for their summer intensive!

Designed for parents, caregivers, educators, and anyone who works closely with children, participants will learn ways to respond to difficult moments while maintaining both connection and boundaries

Content Description: This 3-hour live Zoom training explores how Child-Centered Play Therapy principles can support play therapists in navigating difficult conversations with caregivers while maintaining connection, authenticity, and therapeutic alliance.

This introductory 2-hour live Zoom training is designed for mental health professionals and graduate students who are new to the field of play therapy.

Private Training for Newton Play Therapy

Private Training for A Better Way, Inc.

As part of the Play Therapy for the People series, this 3-hour Zoom training provides practical tools for setting boundaries that protect the child, the therapist, and the room in child-centered play therapy.

This 3-hour Zoom training provides clinicians with practical tools for setting boundaries that protect the child, the therapist, and the room. Participants will learn manage boundary-testing in ways that maintain the therapeutic relationship.

This 3-hour zoom training helps clinicians recognize how shame shows up in play themes, understand the protective functions beneath these behaviors, and respond in ways that preserve dignity and strengthen a child’s sense of worth.

Exploring Themes in Child-Centered Play Therapy

Reflection is often described as “mirroring,” yet many therapists struggle with how to reflect without sounding mechanical, intrusive, or repetitive. This training explores reflection as a relational, regulating, and meaning-making intervention in Child Centered Play Therapy.

Imaginative play is often the most visible and misunderstood aspect of Child-Centered Play Therapy. Dragons are slain, roles shift, and worlds are created, but what is happening clinically and neurobiologically in those moments?

Imaginative play is often the most visible and misunderstood aspect of Child-Centered Play Therapy. Dragons are slain, roles shift, and worlds are created, but what is happening clinically and neurobiologically in those moments?

Wherever you are, grab your hot drinks and meet with Jen for a fireside chat about the tools and gifts of child-centered play therapy.

Wherever you are, grab your hot drinks and meet with Jen for a fireside chat about play therapy.