The Annual APT International Conference and Exposition is committed to providing graduate level training and education, fostering the exchange of ideas, and providing prime networking opportunities are just a few of the highlights APT offers to nearly 1,000 attendees annually. APT is dedicated to offering play therapy education across disciplines, including counselors, psychologists, social workers, marriage […]
Join us and Dr. Susan Carter, Ph.D., LP, RPT-S, as we explore the therapeutic powers of play. Free, live at 2 PM MST. You can also sign up for a 24-hour playback. Register here.
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Aggression in Play Therapy: A Synergetic Approach for Integrating Intensity and Trauma Although aggression is a common part of the play therapy process, many therapists don’t have a clear understanding of what to do and how to facilitate the intensity when it enters the playroom during play. The result can lead to inadvertently promoting aggression […]
The Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy launches you on a personal journey towards discovering what showing up in the playroom truly means. It explores what is happening in the play therapy process, how change occurs, and ultimately what it takes to help children heal at profound levels. It invites you to be you! Curious what this class […]
Synergetic Play Therapy will take you on a journey to deeply understand yourself. With an emphasis on therapist authenticity, SPT is designed to help therapists birth their authentic selves so that they can help their child clients do the same. SPT recognizes that therapist authenticity and attunement in the playroom is integral to the healing of the child. This […]
Join us in British Columbia on November 1-2 for an energizing 2-day course designed to help therapists understand aggressive play from a neuro-biological perspective. Come explore how to effectively use play therapy in a way that supports nervous system regulation and reorganization of the child’s lower centers of the brain. And get Lisa's new […]
Working with “The Perfect Child” in Play Therapy: live, free webinar. Register here. Do you want credit for this and all the other Lessons from the Playroom webinars? Join our Lessons from the Playroom Membership! We offer six-month or one-year terms - the longer you join, the more you save! Enroll, watch the webinars when you want as often as you […]
As neuroscience continues to reveal the importance of developing greater and greater capacities for emotional regulation, it is essential that clinicians understand the biology behind regulation and how to develop it within the children they work with. This full-day workshop is designed to help clinicians understand exactly what regulation is and is not, the biological […]
Synergetic Play Therapy will take you on a journey to deeply understand yourself. With an emphasis on therapist authenticity, SPT is designed to help therapists birth their authentic selves so that they can help their child clients do the same. SPT recognizes that therapist authenticity and attunement in the playroom is integral to the healing of the child. This […]