Save the date! Lisa is coming to Johannesburg, South Africa for a 2-day training with Play Therapy International-South Africa on 6th-7th March 2025. Join her for A Synergetic Approach to Revolutionizing Therapeutic Play with Children.

What will she be presenting on? …….

This 2 day course is designed to help you understand the therapeutic play from a neuro-biological perspective. With the help of neuroscience, interpersonal neurobiology, and a Synergetic Play Therapy framework, you’ll learn how to effectively work with therapeutic play in a way that supports nervous system regulation, reorganization of the child’s lower centers of the brain, and promotes healing for the child. 

Through role play, discussion, and experiential exercises you’ll learn practical techniques that can be used right away in the playroom. Topics such as boundaries, co-regulation, nervous system activation, emotional flooding, and use of aggressive toys and play will be explored.

This training will also guide you toward a deeper understanding of what it means to become a child’s external regulator during trauma play while practicing how to care for your own nervous system thereby decreasing compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma.  The result is the transformation of trauma play into ways of connecting, healing, and mutual trust!