Training schedule

2 WEEKENDS In this workshop, you will deepen your understanding and application of advanced Adlerian play therapy skills and strategies, with an emphasis on conceptualization and treatment planning. You will also explore your own lifestyle to enhance your awareness of your own issues and their impact on your work with children and the significant others in their lives. Friday 3:00-7:00, Sat/Sun 8:30-5:45

In this advanced workshop, you will practice using Adlerian conceptualization of clients as a springboard for custom‑designing treatment plans and developing intervention strategies in Adlerian play therapy.

In this online class, you will learn and practice Adlerian play therapy skills and techniques for establishing relationships with clients, exploring clients' life-styles, helping clients gain insight into their lifestyles, and reorienting and reeducating clients. You will also learn the basics of conceptualizing and treatment planning for Adlerian play therapy.

In this online class spanning 2 WEEKENDS, you will learn and practice Adlerian play therapy skills and techniques for establishing relationships with clients, exploring clients' life-styles, helping clients gain insight into their lifestyles, and reorienting and reeducating clients. Friday 1:30-6:00, Sat/Sun 8:30-6:00

In this online class, you will deepen your understanding and application of advanced Adlerian play therapy concepts, skills, and techniques, with an emphasis on conceptualization and treatment planning. You will also explore your own lifestyle to enhance your awareness of your own issues and their impact on your work with children and the significant others in their lives.

In this class spanning 2 WEEKENDS, you will learn and practice Adlerian play therapy skills and techniques for establishing relationships with clients, exploring clients' life-styles, helping clients gain insight into their lifestyles, and reorienting and reeducating clients. Friday 1:30-6:00, Sat/Sun 8:30-6:00

In this advanced workshop, you will practice using Adlerian conceptualization of clients as a springboard for custom‑designing treatment plans and developing intervention strategies in Adlerian play therapy. 2 Fri/Sat schedule

In this class, you will learn and practice Adlerian play therapy skills and techniques for establishing relationships with clients, exploring clients' life-styles, helping clients gain insight into their lifestyles, and reorienting and reeducating clients. You will also learn the basics of conceptualizing and treatment planning for Adlerian play therapy.

In this workshop, you will deepen your understanding and application of advanced Adlerian play therapy skills and strategies, with an emphasis on conceptualization and treatment planning. You will also explore your own lifestyle to enhance your awareness of your own issues and their impact on your work with children and the significant others in their lives.

In this advanced workshop, you will practice using Adlerian conceptualization of clients as a springboard for custom‑designing treatment plans and developing intervention strategies in Adlerian play therapy.

These consultation sessions are designed to help increase your ability to deliver quality Adlerian play therapy to your clients. Your Approved Adlerian Play Therapy Consultant will use the skills checklists to help you make sure you are actually doing Adlerian play therapy and doing it well.

The final step to becoming certified...

In this fun, interactive workshop, learn to use Adlerian play therapy tools to build relationships with family members, conceptualize their patterns of communicating and interacting, help them gain a clear understanding of themselves and the other members of the family, and facilitate them learning more positive methods for interacting with one another.

In this series of 6 consultation sessions leading you to an Advanced Certificate in Adlerian play therapy, you will enhance your skills for conducting Adlerian family play therapy sessions and Adlerian sand tray play therapy sessions. You will also practice monitoring your own fidelity to the Adlerian play therapy treatment model.

Learn ways to apply Adlerian principles to the sand tray play therapy process with clients of all ages!

Learn ways to apply Adlerian principles to the sand tray play therapy process with clients of all ages

In this fun, interactive workshop, learn to use Adlerian play therapy tools to build relationships with family members, conceptualize their patterns of communicating and interacting, help them gain a clear understanding of themselves and the other members of the family, and facilitate them learning more positive methods for interacting with one another.

Learn ways to apply Adlerian principles to the sand tray play therapy process with clients of all ages!

Learn ways to apply Adlerian principles to the sand tray play therapy process with clients of all ages!

Learn to use early recollections in your play therapy supervision/consultation.

Want to learn all you need to know about supervising play therapists? Take this class

Combine the Integrative Developmental Model of supervision and the Adlerian concept of the Crucial Cs in your play therapy supervision/consultation.

This presentation explores the innovative use of sandtray play therapy within play therapy supervision.

Learn to apply the Adlerian concepts of the Crucial Cs and personality priorities in your play therapy supervision/consultation

Unlock the potential of neurodiverse children and adolescents with our comprehensive Adlerian Play Therapy course, designed for mental health professionals, educators, counselors, and therapists to create inclusive, supportive environments through a blend of theory and practical application.

Applying the love languages to Adlerian play therapy concepts

History of Play Therapy

Learn about the power of video games to enhance your play therapy sessions.

Learn body-centered play therapy techniques for assessing and intervening with traumatized clients.

Explore how the myriad elements of culture have an impact on play therapy clients’ lifestyles.

In this interactive, refresher workshop course for Phase II of AdPT, you will revisit practice, and develop skills for exploring client’s life style.

In this engaging, refresher workshop course for Phase III of AdPT, you will gain confidence in your skills for helping clients gain insight into their worldview.

Unsure of how to journey with the child towards positive change? Learn how to increase skills for helping to reeducate/reorient the client towards a more adaptive way of being.

Explore the transformative power of humor in Adlerian play therapy, discovering playful interventions to foster connection and resilience in children.

Master the art of Adlerian Play Therapy Documentation.

Respectfully address issues related to spirituality in play therapy

Learn play therapy tools you can use with teens and adults!

Enhancing Executive Functioning Skills Through Adlerian Play Therapy

Learn art techniques to use with clients!

In this online, experiential workshop, you'll learn the nuts and bolts of integrating Interpersonal Neurobiology into Adlerian play therapy to enhance your work with child clients.

Learn how to design and facilitate an Adlerian play therapy group.

Dive into the often challenging topic of grief with play therapy clients.

This workshop is designed to provide students creative ways to integrate the evidence based practices of Adlerian play therapy and EMDR.

In this fun Adlerian play therapy webinar, explore 9 temperament traits and learn tools for assessing those traits in the play room, including temperament as one component in your conceptualization of play therapy clients, and designing play therapy interventions.

This class is designed to help play therapists learn to talk so gamer play therapy clients will listen, and listen so gamer play therapy clients will talk (and play) in their play therapy sessions.

Come join Terry Kottman, founder of Adlerian play therapy and master storyteller, in this interactive class about how you can use storytelling for metaphoric teaching (one of the “healing powers of play”) in play therapy. You will learn and practice the basic skills of storytelling and metaphor design so you can feel confident using therapeutic stories you and your clients create in your play therapy sessions.

In this fun and interactive experiential webinar, you will get familiar with using the Paint 3D computer program in your play therapy sessions--whether you are doing your sessions via telehealth or in person.

In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn how to conceptualize and intervene effectively with angry and aggressive play therapy clients.

Learn how to conceptualize play therapy clients with trauma from an Adlerian perspective, effectively intervene with them, and guard against vicarious traumatization from working with these clients.

Learn how to conceptualize and treat the anxious play therapy client – and consult with the anxious parent in this experiential workshop.

Learn how to apply important ethical constructs in the current play therapy context.

This workshop will explore how play therapists can enhance their play therapy sessions through the use of puppets.

Learn ways to work with parents of your play therapy clients

Learn more about a plethora of children’s books with activities you can use in play therapy.

A playful approach to consultation with parents in Adlerian Play Therapy

Experience a plethora of tabletop games and learn how you can use them in your play therapy sessions.

A day spent playing and learning adventure therapy techniques for working with your play therapy clients—what could possibly be more fun??

Learn Adlerian Play Therapy Interventions for Preschoolers

Learn Adlerian Play Therapy Interventions for Elementary Age Children

Learn Adlerian Play Therapy Interventions for Tweens

Improve your confidence in testifying in court as a play therapist or mental health professional who works with children and families

Learn about using the goals of misbehavior in Adlerian play therapy.

Learn how to custom-design therapeutic metaphors for clients in Adlerian Play Therapy

Participants will learn ways to navigating high conflict custody situations when working with play therapy clients.

Participants will learn ways to use Adlerian play therapy to work with children with ADHD

Learn to use slime in play therapy techniques to assess the Crucial Cs with clients.

Dive into the often challenging topic of grief with play therapy clients

This class is focused on the application of Adlerian play therapy (AdPT) in a trauma-informed way.

Blended and divorced families can be messy. Get ready to embrace and enjoy the mess in your play therapy room.

Come and learn how to give choices and set limits from the Adlerian play therapy perspective.

Come and learn how to use modeling more effectively in Adlerian play therapy.

– Learn how to use toy and art materials in direct teaching to help shift the client into a healthier way of being.

Learn how to successfully use role-playing creatively within AdPT to help shift the client into a healthier way of being.

In this workshop, we go beyond teaching simple breathing techniques to support children in expressing, regulating, and managing anger.

Join us as we explore ways to utilize Adlerian play therapy to enhance children’s self-regulation, social, and critical thinking skills.

Learn the basic skills used in non-directive play therapy.

Learn concepts from Adlerian theory that can be applied in play therapy and counseling of individuals, families, and groups.

Become a facilitator of training for parents/caregivers in non-directive play therapy skills and Adlerian concepts to use in their relationships with their children.

FECT License for the 2023 calendar year