Training schedule

This is how you renew your Certified Adlerian Play Therapist status for 2 years (through 2028)

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.

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

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 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 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 2:00-6:00, Sat/Sun 8:30-6:00

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 2:00-6:00, Sat/Sun 8:30-6:00

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.

This is how you renew your Certified Adlerian Play Therapist status for 2 years (through 2027)

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 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 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

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!

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!

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!

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 sand tray play therapy within play therapy supervision.

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

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

More Adlerian applications of sand tray 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.

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

Enhancing Executive Functioning Skills Through Adlerian Play Therapy

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.

Learn to use early recollections in all 4 phases of Adlerian play therapy.

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.

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.

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

In this engaging and dynamic workshop, participants will explore the intersection of Adlerian Play Therapy and cultural competence to enhance their therapeutic impact with diverse clients and families. Through interactive learning and practical application, attendees will gain a deeper understanding of how cultural contexts influence the therapeutic process and how to tailor interventions to foster connection, inclusion, and healing.

Unleash your own creativity and learn to give yourself permission to create your own play therapy techniques.

Through the lens of Adlerian play therapy, learn to assess children’s Crucial Cs (ability to connect, feel capable, be courageous, and realize they count) and design play therapy techniques to support mastery of the Crucial Cs. Come ready to play!

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.

Respectfully address issues related to spirituality in play therapy

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

Come and Learn how to incorporate art techniques into Adlerian Play Therapy

Strengthen your clinical reasoning through an immersive, case-based Adlerian Play Therapy experience that builds confidence in lifestyle assessment, case conceptualization, and intentional treatment planning.

Learn the essential legal, ethical, clinical, and business foundations for successfully launching and sustaining a private practice.

This experiential Adlerian play therapy training is designed to help clinicians strengthen their conceptualization skills through lecture, discussion, and experiential learning. Using “The Goonies” as a shared reference point, participants will review core Adlerian play therapy concepts and increase their ability to recognize lifestyle patterns, goals of behavior, mistaken beliefs, family atmosphere, and relational dynamics through an Adlerian lens.

Explore the Enneagram through an Adlerian Play Therapy lens to understand personality patterns, Crucial Cs, play themes, and therapeutic interventions that foster growth and a sense of belonging.

Bring the world of video games and play therapy together by looking at traditional play therapy interventions with a video game lens.

Help parents step into the world of video games to build connections with their gamer kids using Adlerian Play Therapy skills.

A playful exploration of mindfulness in Adlerian play therapy.

Learn improvisational tools for jumping in and making the moment therapeutic.

Learn more fun storytelling tools for work with your play therapy clients.

Come Sail Away on the LEAPT Cruise!!!!!! Earn up to 18 CE hours in style!!!!!!

Discover how to support children, adolescents, and adults with autism spectrum disorder using Adlerian play therapy techniques. This course equips mental health professionals, educators, counselors, and therapists with tools to create affirming, empowering therapeutic spaces grounded in Adlerian theory.

Navigating ethics in less populated areas can put a play therapist in sticky situations. This class will equip play therapists with the confidence needed to navigate the situations.

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.