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A national trainer and school mental health leader with 20 years of clinical experience and specialized training in play therapy and somatic apporaches to trauma treatment, serving youth, adults, and the LGBTQIA community. Our trainings are experiential, culturally relevant, and practical.
Looking for professional learning for your schood district, agency, group practice, or university mental health degree program?
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Foundations for Integrating Sandtray in Play Therapy for Children, Adolescents and Adults
Sandtray therapy is an integrative form of play therapy practiced along with talk therapy, using a physical or digital sandbox and figures or as communication tools. This experiential training, designed for clinicians new to sandtray in play therapy, will help you understand the potential for symbolic communication in sand therapies and play therapy, and prepare you to integrate sandtray therapy in to your practice with children, teens or adults.
Play Therapy Skills Lab: Case Consultations & Guided Practice for Directive Play Therapy Methods Using Sandtray
Prerequisite: Sandtray Foundations
This practicum workshop is designed for the beginning play therapists in agency, private practice, and school settings who are interested in continuing their play therapy skill development for how to ethically and effectively process sandtray scenes in play therapy for child, adolescent, and/or adult clients. Review and ongoing skill development for how to "hold" the sandtray scenes in play therapy and understand its symbolic content will continue in this skills lab and directive use of miniatures for assessment, grief & trauma intervention and integration with other modalities.
A Trauma-Responsive School Model: Play Therapy Interventions and Family Partnership Strategies
The workshop will introduce a Trauma-Responsive Schools Model, with a specific focus on the role of the school mental health clinicians in supporting students who have experienced trauma within a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS).
Participants will learn and practice play therapy interventions aligned to the Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) modality that are applicable in the school environment acoss grade bands. Additionally, the course will explore family and community partnership strategies emphasizing how the collaboration between schools, families, and school-based mental health clinicians improves youth access to mental health.
Healing Circles and the Power of Symbols
Healing Circles are powerful and transformative spaces that promote emotional well-being and growth through communal support and shared experiences.
This experiential session will introduce the ancstral practice of Healing Circles and provide practical tools and insights to effectively integrate the use of symbolic interaction techniques to engage groups in short-term intervention for communities experiencing a loss.
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