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Introduction to Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain and How Children Engage in Play Therapy

October 11 @ 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

All times are in Central Time Zone

$160 4 Live Webinar APT CE, 4 NBCC Clock Hours, 4 ACE CE

This workshop is a Live Interactive Webinar, and meets the APT definition of Live Webinar. Attendees must attend the training in its entirety, with camera on, complete the training evaluation and a post-test (for live webinar attendance) to be eligible for the CE Certificate.

Introduction to Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain and How Children Engage in Play Therapy Description

There has been much research emerging over the last few years stating play therapy has an impact on brain development. Understanding neuroscience and the developing brain helps the Play Therapist understand the child client on a deeper level, as well as understanding how the entire Play Therapy process works. Discover how Play Therapy is instrumental in connecting the left brain regions and the right brain regions, providing the neuroplasticity a developing brain needs to build new neural networks to overcome adverse experiences. During this training, Teresa will uncover how the developing brain engages in environments, and how the relationship between the child and therapist facilitates the ability to connect, be creative and engage in playful expression, ultimately allowing the brain to rewire from the bottom up.

Introduction to Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain and How Children Engage in Play Therapy Objectives

Participants discuss the emerging research that informs the Play Therapist’s presence and intervention in Play Therapy.
Participants explain the components of the Play Therapy process and the therapeutic relationship that promotes healing.
Participants explore child development and its impact on brain development and a child’s play behaviors.
Participants will recite at least two interventions for Play Therapy to promote the Therapeutic Powers of Play through physical movement, creative expression and emotion regulation.

Training Agenda

1:00 pm Playful Check-in and Introductions

1:10 pm – 2:00 pm Exploration of child developmental stages

2:00 pm – 2:45 pm Brain development and its impact on play

2:45 pm – 3:30 pm Overview of research and play

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm Therapeutic Powers of Play/Bottom up approach

4:30 pm – 5:10 pm Engaging parents in the Play Therapy process

5:00 pm – 5:00 pm Dismissal

Breaks will be determined by participants and Trainer, as needed.

All trainings require at least a Master’s Degree in a Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy, Social Work or related field, and completion of EMDR Basic Training (for EMDRIA Approved Advanced Workshops). Graduate Students may enroll in the training, and understand that continued education credit cannot be provided to individuals who do not hold proper credentials.

Play Therapy credit is available to licensed mental health professionals and graduate students in a mental health program.

Please contact Embark Counseling Services, LLC at (913)257-3161 or trainings@embark-counseling.com for information about continuing education credit for social workers.

Embark Counseling Services, LLC only assumes the responsibility for the registration part of the event. All other costs are the responsibility of the registrant, unless otherwise stated.

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Registration closes at 7:00 pm the night before the training

Introduction to Neuroscience: Understanding the Brain and How Children Engage in Play Therapy Trainer

Teresa Paterson Bartch, LPC, LCPC, RPT-S™

Teresa is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor™. She owns Embark Counseling Services, a group practice in the Greater Kansas City Metropolitan Area, specializing in working with children and teens, from an attachment informed, family systems lens. She has extensive experience providing trauma competent clinical services, along with her Therapy Dog in Training, Rafi Rose, as well as a board approved clinical supervisor in Missouri and Kansas. She completed her Play Therapy Training at Mid-America Nazarene University, and has completed numerous specialized trainings in working with children and adolescents, complex trauma, developmental trauma, autism spectrum disorders and anxiety. She utilizes Play Therapy, Family Systems, Adlerian and EMDR in her clinical work. She is a certified EMDR therapist and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant. She is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, where she enjoys training and supervising emerging mental health professionals.

Board Positions:

Kansas Counseling Association President-Elect (2022-2023)

Kansas Counseling Association President (2023-2024)

Missouri Association for Play Therapy (2022-2024)

This workshop and presenter have no conflict of interest in this workshop, nor is there any commercial or financial support, or any affiliate agreements.

Obtaining CE Credit

Attendees must attend the training in its entirety, with camera on (for live webinar attendance), complete the training evaluation and a post-test (for live webinar attendance) to be eligible for the CE Certificate. Certificates of attendance will be emailed within 7 business days of the completion of the training and receipt of the evaluation and a passing score on the post-test (80% or higher), if applicable.

Workshop Cancellation and Refund Policy

Non-Refundable Fees: $35.00 Administrative Fee is included in your registration fee for each event.

Cancellation requests must be made in writing, and postmarked (or emailed) no later than seven (7) days prior to the date of the event.

Cancellations received at least seven days prior to the event will receive a refund, less the $35.00 administrative fee. Cancellations received within seven days, no shows, or requests after the event will not receive a refund or credit toward future events.

Embark Counseling Services, LLC receives the right to cancel any training, workshops or courses that receive fewer than five (5) registrants within two weeks of the scheduled event and may be rescheduled to a later date. Those who are registered will be notified of the cancellation and rescheduling in a timely manner and will be offered either a refund or a credit toward a future training, workshop or course. If Embark Counseling Services, LLC cancels the training, workshop or course for any other reason, you will receive a full refund, or credit toward a future event (including administrative fee).

No partial credit will be given for any training, workshop or course. You must attend the event in its entirety to receive continued education credits. For live webinars, you must have your camera on at all times to receive credit for attendance.

No exceptions will be made to the cancellation or refund policy.

Questions or concerns, including requesting any special needs or accommodations, should be addressed to trainings@embark-counseling.com.

Grievance Policy

Embark Counseling Services, LLC is fully committed to comply with all legal and ethical standards, including non-discrimination, in all of its activities: Marketing, content and treatment of its attendees and trainers.

We do understand that although we are intent on delivering our trainings, workshops and courses in a fair manner, conflict and complaints will arise. In the event that this would happen, Embark Counseling Services, LLC will attempt to alleviate the issue as quickly and equitably as possible.

All grievances regarding trainers, content, delivery of material or the training facilities should be addressed by sending a confidential email to trainings@embark-counseling.com. Our representative will attentively attempt to address concerns in a timely manner.

Embark Counseling Services, LLC is an APT Approved Provider 22-670.

Embark Counseling Services, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7305. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Embark Counseling Services, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Embark Counseling Services, LLC, Provider #1910, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Embark Counseling Services, LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 02/05/2024-02/05/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 4 clinical continuing education credits.