Jennifer Taylor Play Therapy Services - Don't 'just play'...PLAY WELL!

Play Therapy with LGBTQ+ Children & Teens

Come join us for a 5.5 hour webinar for APT contact hours to discuss the attributes & complexities of treating LGBT+ clients in the play therapy. From a developmental & play lens, you will learn how sexuality and gender may present in the playroom.

Books & Board Games in Play Therapy & Counseling

This 3 hour webinar will explore the integration, history and theory of play therapy and bibliotherapy and ways of incorporating books and board games with client’s treatment goals and presenting problems.

Playrooms in Motion: Movement Interventions in Play Therapy

This webinar explores movement-based play therapy interventions. Various interventions will be explained and demonstrated with discussion of targeted treatment issues/goals and alignment with play therapy theory and/or approaches.

Nature Play Therapy Series

Learn how to integrate and implement Nature Play Therapy interventions rooted in a variety of theoretical orientations supporting the use of play as an effective agent of change, growth and healing.

Enriching Our Work in Play Therapy: Can Fairy Tales Really Inspire Us in a Time Like This?

Through this workshop we will begin to explore the nature of archetype, symbol and meaning in Fairy Tales through clinician experience and working through specific tales.

Storytelling with Superheroes in Play Therapy

All of our clients have their own superhero inside of them! Our goal as mental health clinicians is to help them unlock their inner strengths! Overcoming depression, anxiety, grief, and trauma is what superheroes do!

Using Pop Culture in Play Therapy & Counseling

Using mainstream media as the metaphor, we will explore the psychology behind superheroes, analyze the latest research and will discuss how to use these metaphors in the counseling setting and in play therapy.

Mapping the Heroine’s Journey for Girls in Sandplay : Mindfully Engaging Our Clients in Play Therapy Using Sand and Storytelling Approaches

Building on the foundation of Dr. Roz's book, A Therapist's Guide to Mapping the Girl Heroine's Journey in Sandplay, we will explore the Sandplay Journey Map.

AutPlay Therapy Interventions: Social Skills, Emotional Regulation, and Connection

This webinar will focus on several AutPlay Therapy interventions that can be implemented in person or via telehealth. The interventions will focus on improving social skills, emotional regulation abilities & connection and engagement skills.

Lego-Based Play Therapy Techniques

In this workshop, participants will learn about Lego-based Therapy developed by Dr. Daniel LeGoff & the Thera-build Model by Alyson Thomsen. Participants will gain a new perspective on how to implement Lego-based play therapy in play therapy sessions

FirstPlay Developmental Kinesthetic Storytelling® Level 1: Foundations

Modules 1-6: FirstPlay® Overview, FirstPlay® Therapy Foundations, Touch, FirstPlay® & Ethics, Parent & Child Touch & Attachment Assessment & Child Drawing Assessment Interventions, Calm, Relax & Connect, Getting Started Activities

FirstPlay Kinesthetic Storytelling® Level 2: Ready-Made Stories

Modules 7- 9 FirstPlay Kinesthetic Storytelling®: Basic Building Blocks of Children’s Stories, Organizing & Preparing for Parent-Child, Ready Made FirstPlay® Kinesthetic Stories

FirstPlay Kinesthetic Storytelling® Level 3: Creating Therapuetic Stories From Scratch

Level III we build on what we have learned from Level I and II. Level III fouses on modules 10- 14.

Autism and Trauma: AutPlay® Therapy and Beyond

This training will explore the unique manifestations of trauma in children with autism spectrum disorder. How to use AutPlay Therapy to address trauma issues & how to integrate & adapt other evidence-based trauma approaches for children with autism

Play Therapy Theories are So Playful: An Engaging Look at Play Therapy Theories

This is a self-paced online/home study training that focuses on the Association for Play Therapy’s ten seminal and historically significant play therapy theories.

Family Play Therapy: Approaches and Interventions

This training focuses on the process and implementation of conducting play therapy with families. Therapists will gain information on how to work with families utilizing play therapy interventions and processes from a general perspective.

Using Sandtrays with Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder

This training explores how to use traditional Sandtray Therapy methodology and unconventional methods to help children with ASD develop skills in relation to connection and engagement, regulation and sensory processing, and social skills.

AutPlay Certification Training

Complete your AutPlay Training by attending this online format.

The Autism Friendly Play Therapist

This training focuses on helping play therapists and other mental health professionals understand what autism is and how to interact with those on the autism spectrum.

Autism Friendly Training

This 4 hour training allows attendees to understand what autism is and how to interact with, serve, and work with those on the autism spectrum. ** No APT credit available.**

Play Therapy with Separation Anxiety

This 2 hour webinar will provide an overview of the nature of separation anxiety and how to address it in play therapy.

A Prescriptive Play Therapy Approach with Generalized Anxiety Disorder

This 4 hour webinar will provide a theoretical overview of three approaches to play therapy, training on how to discern which theoretical approach is most appropriate and what interventions are best depending on the context and severity of symptoms.

Play Therapy with Anxiety Disorders

This 2 hour recorded online training webinar provides training regarding anxiety disorders in children along with an overview in 3 seminal theories.

Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy With OCD

This 4 hour webinar will provide training in theory and application of cognitive behavioral play therapy with children and adolescents diagnosed with OCD.

Treating Trichotillomania with Play Therapy

This advanced course gives you practical ways to incorporate cognitive behavioral approaches with play therapy interventions to treat this unique diagnosis.

Treating Adolescents with Trichotillomania using Prescriptive Play Therapy

This 4 hour webinar will provide extensive training based in research and theory that supports a multi-faceted approach to using play-based techniques for the effective treatment of trichotillomania.

Play Therapy With ADHD

This 2 hour workshop provides training on the medical/traditional AND the alternative perspectives on the diagnosis of ADHD for children as well as specific play therapy interventions.

Creative & Expressive Play Therapy Interventions for Children Ages 4 – 11

This 4 hour webinar will provide theoretical basis for using creative and expressive play therapy interventions along with training on how to implement specific interventions based upon a prescriptive play therapy approach.

Creative & Affordable Play Therapy Interventions & Items

Come and learn how and why to recycle everyday items into useful, fun items and games to utilize in the play therapy room! You'll receive 20 innovative and affordable play therapy interventions in this 1.5 hour training!

Bibliotherapy: The Magic of Books In Play Therapy

In this 2-hour webinar we will look at the best ways to utilize children’s literature in the play room to assist in helping children in their process of healing and growth.

Play Therapy With Items From Nature

There are myriad ways and benefits of bring a little of Nature into the play therapy room. This one hour webinar will explore numerous creative play therapy interventions borrowing from the items we can find in the great outdoors.

Using Board Games in Play Therapy

This training focuses on using board games (traditional, therapeutic, therapist created, and tablet games) in play therapy. Typical uses, special considerations, and skill gains related to using board games in play therapy will be covered.

Digital Play Techniques in Online Play Therapy

This 2 hour webinar will provide training on ways to be creative and playful through digital and online interventions and techniques that will promote connection while fulfilling objectives of treating a variety of presenting issues.

Directive Play Therapy Techniques

This 2 hour recorded training webinar will provide therapists an overview of the nature of directive play therapy as well as theoretical foundations & specific interventions & techniques for implementation as part of a treatment plan.

20 Creative Play Therapy Interventions with Anxiety for Older Children

This 1.5 hour webinar will provide inspiration and instruction on how to be creative, rooted in a cognitive behavioral play therapy approach.

Mindfulness Techniques & Play Therapy With Children

During this training, participants will have an opportunity to learn about the practice and philosophy of mindfulness and how it relates to play therapy with child clients.

Using Play Therapy with Adult Clients

This training introduces participants to using play therapy with adult clients. Identified benefits of using play therapy with adults will be presented.

A Look at a Book: Integrating Play Therapy and Bibliotherapy

This training covers the integration of play therapy and bibliotherapy. Considerations for incorporating bibliotherapy and play therapy are presented along with therapeutic play therapy goals with bibliotherapy.

Play Therapy Supervision: Addressing Parent and Caregiver Issues

This training focuses on addressing challenges and issues in working with parents and caregivers in play therapy. This training is designed to provide a training program that supervisors can share with their supervisees during supervision meetings.

Using Play Therapy to Address Sensory Processing Challenges

This training explores using play therapy approaches and interventions to address sensory processing challenges. An overview of sensory processing challenges will be covered along with descriptors of the eight sensory processing areas.

Play Therapy Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other Neurodevelopmental Disorders.