Virtual Event

Connecting Theories and Essential Keys of Practice: The Therapeutic Powers of Play Therapy

Name: Connecting Theories and Essential Keys of Practice: The Therapeutic Powers of Play Therapy
Start: 2024-05-10T13:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-05-10T16:30:00-05:00

Virtual Event

May 10 @ 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM

All times are in Central Time Zone

3 Live Interactive Webinar APT CE, 3 NBCC Clock Hours, 3 ACE CE

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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.

Connecting Theories and Essential Keys of Practice: The Therapeutic Powers of Play Therapy Description

Discover the elements specific to Play Therapy that help unlock a child’s growth and development within the therapeutic context, where children will develop a deeper understanding of themselves and the world they are connected to. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of the importance of play, the meaning of play telling the story of trauma and experiences, as well as the benefits of play in a child’s development, healing and resiliency.

Connecting Theories and Essential Keys of Practice: The Therapeutic Powers of Play Therapy Objectives

Identify and describe the key aspects of the therapeutic powers of play
Identify the benefits of Play therapy for client and caregivers
Learn creative techniques to ignite the therapeutic powers of play and inform your clinical approach

Training Agenda

1:30 pm Playful Check-In

1:30–2:00 pm Therapeutic Powers of Play Overview and Treatment Planning

2:00-2:30 pm Facilitating Communication in Play Therapy

2:30-3:00 pm Fostering Emotional Wellness in the Therapeutic Relationship

3:00-3:30 pm Engaging the Importance of Social Relationships in Play Therapy

3:30-4:00 pm Engaging how to Increase Personal Strengths in Play Therapy Sessions

4:00-4:30 pm Bringing it all together and working with parents in Play Therapy

4:30 pm Dismissal

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

Connecting Theories and Essential Keys of Practice: The Therapeutic Powers of Play Trainer:

Teresa Paterson Bartch, LPC, LCPC, RPT-S ^tm

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 3 clinical continuing education credits.