Upcoming training

Fri 13 Jun 2025

1:00 PM - 5:15 PM (4 hours 15 minutes)

A playful exploration of mindfulness in Adlerian play therapy.

Sat 14 Jun 2025

1 day, 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM (8 hours)

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

Tue 17 Jun 2025

1 day, 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM (9 hours 30 minutes)

In this fun, interactive workshop, learn the basics of Adlerian play therapy, a method of integrating the concepts and techniques of Individual Psychology with the play therapy skills and strategies.

23 - 27 Jun 2025

1 week, 8:00 AM - 5:45 PM

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

23 - 27 Jun 2025

1 week, 8:30 AM - 5:45 PM

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

Fri 27 Jun 2025

9:00 AM - 1:15 PM (4 hours 15 minutes)

This workshop equips play therapists with tools to reduce conflict, improve communication, and foster healthier family dynamics.

Fri 27 Jun 2025

12:00 PM - 3:15 PM (3 hours 15 minutes)

Embark on a transformative journey with us as we delve into the intricate world of Adlerian play therapy, unraveling the art of recognizing and incorporating individual play themes into your therapeutic approach.

Sat 28 Jun 2025

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (2 hours)

A Monthly Consultation Circle for Creative, Inclusive Adlerian Play Therapists

11 - 27 Jul 2025

3 weeks, 8:30 AM - 5:45 PM

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

Fri 11 Jul 2025

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (3 hours)

Unlocking Adlerian Psychology for Adults and Adolescents

14 - 18 Jul 2025

1 week, 8:00 AM - 5:15 PM

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

14 - 16 Jul 2025

3 days, 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM

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.

14 - 18 Jul 2025

1 week, 8:30 AM - 5:45 PM

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

Fri 18 Jul 2025

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM (2 hours)

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

Sat 19 Jul 2025

8:00 AM - 3:00 PM (7 hours)

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

Sat 19 Jul 2025

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (7 hours)

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

4 - 8 Aug 2025

1 week, 8:30 AM - 5:45 PM

More Adlerian applications of sand tray play therapy!

8 - 24 Aug 2025

3 weeks, 8:30 AM - 5:45 PM

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

Fri 8 Aug 2025

9:00 AM - 12:15 PM (3 hours 15 minutes)

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

Fri 8 Aug 2025

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM (2 hours)

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

11 - 15 Aug 2025

1 week, 8:00 AM - 5:15 PM

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.

11 - 15 Aug 2025

1 week, 8:00 AM - 5:45 PM

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.

15 - 24 Aug 2025

2 weeks, 8:30 AM - 5:45 PM

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

Sat 23 Aug 2025

9:00 AM - 1:15 PM (4 hours 15 minutes)

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.

Mon 25 Aug 2025

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM (2 hours)

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

27 - 29 Aug 2025

3 days, 8:30 AM - 5:45 PM

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.

Fri 29 Aug 2025

9:00 AM - 1:15 PM (4 hours 15 minutes)

The workshop examines how iconic Star Wars characters like Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, and Princess Leia embody Adlerian psychology principles, highlighting themes of striving for significance, overcoming inferiority, and the influence of family dynamics on personal growth and responsibility.

Sat 30 Aug 2025

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (2 hours)

A Monthly Consultation Circle for Creative, Inclusive Adlerian Play Therapists

5 - 14 Sep 2025

2 weeks, 8:30 AM - 6:30 PM

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

Fri 5 Sep 2025

9:00 AM - 1:15 PM (4 hours 15 minutes)

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

Fri 5 Sep 2025

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (1 hour)

Come and connect with fellow LEAPT students and teachers!

12 - 21 Sep 2025

2 weeks, 8:30 AM - 5:45 PM

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

12 - 21 Sep 2025

2 weeks, 8:30 AM - 5:45 PM

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

Sat 13 Sep 2025

9:00 AM - 1:30 PM (4 hours 30 minutes)

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.

Sat 20 Sep 2025

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (7 hours)

This workshop focuses on utilizing Adlerian play therapy to understand and support the unique experiences of children in kinship care, addressing their specific challenges while equipping therapists with practical techniques to foster resilience, connection, and emotional expression.

26 Sep 2025 - 5 Oct 2025

2 weeks, 8:30 AM - 5:45 PM

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

26 Sep 2025 - 5 Oct 2025

2 weeks, 8:30 AM - 5:45 PM

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

Fri 26 Sep 2025

9:00 AM - 1:15 PM (4 hours 15 minutes)

This presentation explores how superhero stories and fandoms can be used, through Adlerian theory and Individual Psychology, to better understand clients, promote social interest, and support goal achievement.

Sat 27 Sep 2025

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (2 hours)

A Monthly Consultation Circle for Creative, Inclusive Adlerian Play Therapists

29 Sep 2025 - 3 Oct 2025

1 week, 8:30 AM - 5:45 PM

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.

30 Sep 2025 - 3 Oct 2025

4 days, 8:00 AM - 5:15 PM

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

20 - 22 Oct 2025

3 days, 8:00 AM - 5:15 PM

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.

20 - 22 Oct 2025

3 days, 8:00 AM - 5:15 PM

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.

Fri 24 Oct 2025

12:00 PM - 4:15 PM (4 hours 15 minutes)

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

Sat 25 Oct 2025

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (2 hours)

A Monthly Consultation Circle for Creative, Inclusive Adlerian Play Therapists

27 - 31 Oct 2025

1 week, 8:00 AM - 5:15 PM

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.

27 - 31 Oct 2025

1 week, 8:00 AM - 5:15 PM

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.

Thu 30 Oct 2025

1 day, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM (9 hours)

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.

7 - 16 Nov 2025

2 weeks, 8:30 AM - 5:45 PM

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

Fri 7 Nov 2025

1 day, 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM (9 hours 30 minutes)

In this fun, interactive workshop, learn the basics of Adlerian play therapy, a method of integrating the concepts and techniques of Individual Psychology with the play therapy skills and strategies.

10 - 14 Nov 2025

1 week, 8:00 AM - 5:15 PM

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.

10 - 14 Nov 2025

1 week, 8:00 AM - 5:15 PM

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.

Fri 14 Nov 2025

9:00 AM - 1:15 PM (4 hours 15 minutes)

This workshop leverages Harry Potter's transformative journey to illustrate how Adlerian psychology can help clients view mistakes as opportunities for growth, emphasizing the importance of courage, community, and resilience in overcoming struggles with inferiority, belonging, and identity.

Fri 5 Dec 2025

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM (1 hour)

Come and connect with fellow LEAPT students and teachers!

8 - 12 Dec 2025

1 week, 8:30 AM - 5:45 PM

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

8 - 12 Dec 2025

1 week, 8:30 AM - 5:45 PM

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.

15 - 19 Dec 2025

1 week, 8:00 AM - 5:15 PM

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.

15 - 19 Dec 2025

1 week, 8:00 AM - 5:15 PM

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.

Fri 19 Dec 2025

9:00 AM - 12:15 PM (3 hours 15 minutes)

Encanto exemplifies Adlerian theory by illustrating themes of intergenerational trauma, family dynamics, and the pursuit of belonging and purpose to foster understanding and healing.

9 - 11 Jan 2026

3 days, 8:00 AM - 5:15 PM

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.

9 - 18 Jan 2026

2 weeks, 8:30 AM - 5:45 PM

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

9 - 18 Jan 2026

2 weeks, 8:30 AM - 5:45 PM

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

12 - 16 Jan 2026

1 week, 8:00 AM - 5:15 PM

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.

12 - 16 Jan 2026

1 week, 8:00 AM - 5:15 PM

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.

Fri 23 Jan 2026

8:00 AM - 12:15 PM (4 hours 15 minutes)

Respectfully address issues related to spirituality in play therapy

Thu 5 Feb 2026

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM (3 hours)

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.

9 - 13 Feb 2026

1 week, 8:00 AM - 5:45 PM

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

9 - 13 Feb 2026

1 week, 8:00 AM - 5:45 PM

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

Fri 13 Feb 2026

9:00 AM - 2:30 PM (5 hours 30 minutes)

This workshop offers a dynamic Adlerian approach to disrupt recurring conflicts in couples by mapping their competitive dynamics and providing practical tools for fostering mutual respect and connection, benefiting both clients and practitioners' personal relationships.

16 - 20 Feb 2026

1 week, 8:00 AM - 5:15 PM

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.

16 - 20 Feb 2026

1 week, 8:00 AM - 5:15 PM

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.