Upcoming presentations:

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​Play Therapy 101: Building Blocks for Beginners

Friday, April 11, 2025

9 AM to 5 PM

Joe C Thompson Center, 2405 Robert Dedman Dr., Austin, TX

Sponsored by UT Steve Hicks School of Social Work

Please click HERE for more information and how to register.

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Ethics of self-care for play therapists and other professionals​

Friday, May 9, 2025

9 AM to 5 PM

Joe C Thompson Center, 2405 Robert Dedman Dr., Austin, TX

Sponsored by UT Steve Hicks School of Social Work

Please click HERE for more information and how to register.

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Past Presentations

• Taught Theories of Methods and Family Intervention as an adjunct at the UT Steve Hicks School of Social Work

• Using Art in Therapy with Clients 

• Using Mindfulness with Children

• Directive Play Therapy Interventions to Teach Mindfulness to children 

• Play Therapy Interventions to Teach Mindfulness to children 

• Directive Play Therapy Interventions to Use with Families

• Directive Play Therapy Interventions to Teach Mindfulness to Children 

• Introduction to Attachment Based Family Therapy (ABFT):  An evidence-based treatment to address attachment ruptures and internalizing symptoms  in adolescents (Co-presented with Molly Norwood & Serena Messina) 

• Building bridges and co-parenting with biological parents/family for foster parents 

• Documentation

• Meditative Practices in Prescriptive Play Therapy

• Directive Play Therapy Mindfulness Techniques

• Sandtray Therapy

• Stress, burnout, fatigue, Oh my! Mental well-being and self-care during the pandemic 

• Suicide & Homicide Risk Assessment

• Meditative Practices to Nourish Self and Others 

• Beginning play therapy skills and methods

• Play Therapy, storytelling, weather and monsters, of my!

• Play therapy with the brain and body in mind:  A Polyvagal Approach

• Awakening your Inner Peace

• Playful Minds:  Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy and Mindfulness Strategies to Support Growth

• Healing through creativity:  Integrating art and play therapy

 

Other possible topics:

Using movement and music with clients

Creative arts

Play therapy Supervision

Trauma

Prescriptive Play Therapy

Sandtray therapy

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