Save the date! Lisa is coming to Ireland for 2 days of training with the Irish Play Therapy Community Association on 12th-13th April 2025. Join her for A Synergetic Approach for Supporting Children and Caregivers through Anxiety and OCD Challenge.

What will she be presenting on? …….

Supporting a child struggling with anxiety, fears, and obsessive compulsions can be incredibly challenging as the desire to move the child out of their activation and in many cases, their rituals, can overshadow the deeper issues and stressors driving the behaviors. 

Without an understanding of what is really going on and how play therapy is able to support the integration of the underlying drivers of the child’s behaviors and emotional experiences, play therapists can inadvertently intensify the inner struggle that is often experienced in these children.

Drawing from Synergetic Play Therapy and interpersonal neurobiology, this workshop explores non-directive and directive play based interventions to support you on a path to understanding the wisdom in anxiety, fears, and obsessive compulsions allowing them to better support their clients.  This workshop also gives special attention to learning how to work with parents and caregivers along the journey, as well as how to translate the play to the therapy goals.

Come spend two incredibly powerful days with Lisa filled with didactive and experiential learning designed to give you both the theoretical and practical insight and skills needed to support anxiety, fears, and obsessive compulsions when they show up in your playroom.