“Inventing” and Customizing Play Therapy Techniques

Most play therapists go to conferences and/or read play therapy books to learn new techniques and to find play therapy interventions they can use with their clients. Don’t come to this workshop if that is what you want. Come to this workshop to unleash your own creativity so that you can learn to give yourself permission to create your own play therapy techniques customized to your particular clients. Just bring yourself and your thoughts about kids you might be feeling bored or stuck with; your insecurities about strategies you want to try but are afraid they won’t work; your willingness to play, laugh and have fun. The instructor will provide lots of materials, a bunch of ideas, help with conceptualizing just what is going on with your clients and what they might need next, and an atmosphere filled with permission to create, mess up, experiment, think, fail, and be freer in the play room than you have been...maybe ever.

6 live webinar CE hours (non-contact) (Includes play therapy skills and methods) This workshop meets APT's definition of "Live Webinar."

APT Approved Provider 99-055

League of Extraordinary Adlerian Play Therapists (LEAPT) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7402. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. League of Extraordinary Adlerian Play Therapists (LEAPT) is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Participants will be able to:

 1. Describe 3 ways they have held themselves back from inventing their own play therapy techniques.

 2. Explain how they can systematically give themselves permission to invent their own play therapy techniques.

 3. Invent play therapy techniques designed for specific clients and articulate how these techniques will benefit those clients.

 4. Describe how to take techniques developed by other play therapists, adapt them to the particular needs of specific clients, and articulate how these techniques will benefit those clients.

 5. Describe 3 tools for conceptualizing clients as a part of the process of developing and customizing play therapy techniques.

 6. Explain how to use clients’ interests and aptitudes as the basis for developing and customizing play therapy techniques.

9:00 AM Start

10:30 AM Break 1 (15 mins)

12:30 PM Lunch

1:00 PM Resume Class

2:30 PM Break 2 (15 mins)

2:45 PM Resume class

4:00 PM End