Receive a new understanding of how modern play therapy is shaped by generational and cultural views of childhood and play in this dynamic workshop.

Learn about Animal-Assisted Counseling in a private practice setting with real-world examples of successful AAC interventions used with children, adolescents, and adults.

Develop a personalized screen time plan and learn strategies for effective dialogue and mutual understanding about media use and its impact on wellbeing.

Introduce structure to the art of counseling children in their first language: play. Use this framework to design interventions and work in groups to integrate and generate ideas.

Deepen your limit-setting skills with group discussion, rigorous experiential role play, and applying advanced therapeutic responses with children during limit-setting.

Understand your child's emotional needs and effectively guide behavior, fostering open communication, and nurturing control and self-esteem.

Learn how to foster sensory and motor development and how to recognize signs that a child might need additional support to reach important milestones.

Learn to identify the core beliefs, how to apply therapeutic skills, and understanding of basic tenets behind the facilitation of Child-Centered Play Therapy.

Learn to incorporate basic video game skills into the play space, ways to assess video game fit/safety/consent, and types of consoles and themes/genres.

Explore opportunities to develop and role play various techniques with a focus on "not knowing," following each client's own wisdom to their vision of better.

Learn psychological theories of how anger develops in children and create directive play therapy exercises for utilizing with angry clients in therapy.

Analyze your current school counseling practices within a play therapy framework, and how to use specific play therapy techniques in the school setting.

Identify and explain the goals and anticipated outcomes of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, and adapt your practice and special populations.

Learn to apply Solution-Focused Play Therapy to reorient how to engage problems and use skills and mindset shifts to generalize in future challenges.

Use therapeutic modalities to focus on the therapist-parent relationship, skills for effective parent consultations, and therapist personal growth.

Understand your child's emotional needs and effectively guide behavior, fostering open communication, and nurturing control and self-esteem.

Explore how to articulate sibling dynamics and how to channel sibling rivalry, when present, into more positive relationship-building experiences.