Save the date! Join Judy Norman*, Synergetic Play Therapy Teacher on November 1-3, 2025 in Palm Springs, California for an in-person 3-day Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy program!

Have you been searching for ways to create a deeper impact for your clients? Or perhaps you want to improve or learn more about …

• Becoming an external regulator to support children with integration and repatterning the activation of their nervous system.
• Supporting healing at deeper levels through right brain to right brain attuned communication.
• Teaching children interoceptive (body) awareness (…the key ingredient for self-regulation and co-regulation). 
• Creating a neuroception of safety for a child when emotional flooding happens.
• Setting boundaries with the brain in mind to not minimize, shame or shut down the child’s play, but keep them engaged in their therapy process.
• Building collaborative relationships with caregivers to support their child’s therapeutic process.
• Developing goals, tracking a child’s therapeutic process, and translating what’s happening during the child’s therapy session to their caregiver(s) and others in the world.
• Helping children develop a secure attachment to themselves (…a foundation of resilience).
• Applying SPT concepts from a cultural lens for a more inclusive and culturally sensitive clinical orientation where a client’s unique experiences and needs are honored.
• How to feel a little more like YOU in the therapy process (…because we know inauthenticity is the fastest way to burnout and compassion fatigue). 

Learn all of this and so much more!

This program is a 3-day 18-hour in-person training that explores the foundational skills of SPT and will take you on a journey to explore the neuroscience behind what is happening in the play therapy process, how to effectively work with caregivers and what it means to create a neuroception of safety allowing both the child and the caregiver to have a deeper integration, and (….if this wasn’t enough), you’ll come to understand the magic of aggressive play, sand and art from the perspectives of nervous system regulation, attunement, attachment, mindfulness, and authenticity. But it doesn’t stop there! This program also includes 6 months of group consultation and additional video lessons to keep your learning going!

Come discover what showing up in the playroom truly means and explore what is happening in the play therapy process, how change occurs, and ultimately what it takes to help children heal at profound levels. And the best part is, you get to be you on the journey! 

**Offered 3 times a year online (in January, June & October) and in-person, the Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy program is a comprehensive play therapy training that explores the foundational skills of SPT. This six-month program is designed for both beginning and advanced practitioners. Learn more about this level 1 SPT signature program here.