Required Text: Landreth, G. (2012) Play therapy: The art of the relationship. Accelerated Development, Inc: Muncie, IN. ISBN: 978-0415886819
Course Description: This course will present the use of play as a therapeutic modality and offer an introductory level of understanding of child centered play therapy. The history of the use of play therapy will be explored. In addition, the theoretical client-centered approach to play therapy will be emphasized in the course along with the application of this approach to cases will be discussed. There will be emphasis placed on the role of the therapeutic relationship and the process of play therapy.
Course Objectives:
Next Class Scheduled TBD
Cost: $280
Cohort cost: $250
Staff cost: $200
Staff cohort cost: $160
Required Text: Landreth, G. (2012) Play therapy: The art of the relationship. Accelerated Development, Inc: Muncie, IN. ISBN: 978-0415886819
Recommended Text: O’Connor, K. & Braverman, L. (2009). Play therapy theory and practice: Comparing theory and techniques. John Wiley & Sons: Hoboken, NJ. ISBN: 978-0470122365
Course Description: The major counseling theories are explored and applications of these theories are presented in typical scenarios associated with a play therapy caseload. Participants will be reminded of the theories they most likely learned about in graduate school, and then will be given an opportunity to examine how these theories can be applied to their work with children in the playroom.
Course Objectives:
Next Class Scheduled 2/20/25 online
6:00-9:00 p.m. on-line, approved for state licensure and APT
Cost: $105
Cohort cost: $90
Staff cost: $75
Staff cohort cost: $60
Required Text: Landreth, G. (2012) Play therapy: The art of the relationship. Accelerated Development, Inc: Muncie, IN. ISBN: 978-0415886819
Course Description: This course focuses on the importance and ability of engaging parents and caregivers in the play therapy process. From the intake to the discharge, caregiver involvement is essential to the quality and progress of play therapy interventions for children. Children cannot be expected to make all the changes—if caregivers do not change with them, children will not be able to maintain progress and may even regress. Strategies for engaging caregivers will be the primary course focus.
Objectives:
Next Class Scheduled 3/6/25 online 6-9PM approved for state licensure and APT
Cost: $105
Cohort cost: $90
Staff cost: $75
Staff cohort cost: $60
Required Text: Landreth, G. (2012) Play therapy: The art of the relationship. Accelerated Development, Inc: Muncie, IN. ISBN: 978-0415886819
Course Description: This course introduces the key tenets of applying DSM criteria for diagnosing child through the use of play therapy techniques. A heavy focus is placed on understanding how the play behaviors are characteristic of certain types of diagnoses. The course does not teach providers how to “interpret” client behavior, but rather to recognize patterns that may better explain a certain diagnosis for the purpose of informing the play therapy treatment plan.
Course Objectives:
Next Class Scheduled 6-8PM meeting 1/9/25, 1/16/24, 1/23/24, and 1/31/24 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. each time 8 hours CE, approved for state licensure and APT
Cost: $280
Cohort cost: $250
Staff cost: $200
Staff cohort cost: $160
Required Text: Landreth, G. (2012) Play therapy: The art of the relationship. Accelerated Development, Inc: Muncie, IN. ISBN: 978-0415886819
Course Description: This course will present the use of directive play therapy as a therapeutic modality and offer an advanced level of understanding of play therapy. The emphasis of this class is the role of the therapeutic relationship, the phases of the play therapy process, a review of structuring and limiting setting skills associated with the use of play therapy, and use of therapeutic transference and counter transference in a directive play therapy sessions.
Course Objectives:
Next Class Scheduled 1/17/25 in Washington Iowa
10 a.m. - 430 p.m. 6 hours CE, approved for state licensure and APT
Cost: $280
Cohort cost: $250
Staff cost: $200
Staff cohort cost: $160
Required Text: Landreth, G. (2012) Play therapy: The art of the relationship. Accelerated Development, Inc: Muncie, IN. ISBN: 978-0415886819
Course Description: Play therapists must describe clinical options along with several approaches when treating traumatized children and families. Trauma informed converts to evidence informed trauma therapy with children into a series of play-centered modules. These modules help connect both the neurobiology of play and trauma, while current evidence-based approaches are kept in trauma. Each component represents an important parts of play therapy for trauma treatment and specifies both treatment goals and an intervention. The child’s figurative use of the playroom is demonstrated through multiple cases and increased with an array of play therapy interventions. This flexible, constructed model separates between goals and non-play therapy are best served that are best accomplished through non-directive play therapy methods and goals that are best served by including attachment focused play therapy approaches that include Filial and AutPlay, cognitive-behavioral play therapy interventions, sand tray methods and other open communication therapy methods.
Course Objectives:
Next Class Scheduled 7/18/25-7/19/25 in person Marshalltown Iowa or Online 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m
16 hours CE, approved for state licensure and APT
Cost: $560
Cohort cost: $480
Staff cost: $400
Staff cohort cost: $320
Required Text: Landreth, G. (2012) Play therapy: The art of the relationship. Accelerated Development, Inc: Muncie, IN. ISBN: 978-0415886819
Course Description: This course will focus on the concepts of advancing play therapists’ skills to a higher level, using value added statements, behavioral analysis, and working with populations who have special needs (including autism). Participants can expect to practice non-directive play therapy along with integrating other techniques as appropriate for individual client needs. This course involves intensive reviews of clinical knowledge and examines participant understanding through interactive role plays and group supervision.
Course Objectives:
Next Class Scheduled 4/4/25 in person Marshalltown Iowa or online
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. in Marshalltown with hybrid option 8 hours CE, approved for state licensure and APT
Cost: $245
Cohort cost: $210
Staff cost: $175
Staff cohort cost: $140
Required Text: Landreth, G. (2012) Play therapy: The art of the relationship. Accelerated Development, Inc: Muncie, IN. ISBN: 978-0415886819
Course Description: This course focuses on understanding themes which demonstrate complex needs, trauma, and self-deprecating ideation of young patients. Play therapy themes are generalized ideas; however, there are times when the patient requires a deeper level of understanding by the therapist in order to truly process the intensity of their needs or trauma. Play therapy is instrumental in helping children voice these needs—but if the clinician does not understand their play language, the message is lost. This class helps providers not only understand the language, but helps build reflective language to help children grasp the complexity of their worlds and needs.
Course Objectives:
Next Class Scheduled 6-8PM meeting 4/3/25, 4/10/25, 4/17/25, and 4/24/25 6:00-8:00 p.m. each time hours CE. approved for state licensure and APT
Cost: $280
Cohort cost: $250
Staff cost: $200
Staff cohort cost: $160
Required Text: Landreth, G. (2012) Play therapy: The art of the relationship. Accelerated Development, Inc: Muncie, IN. ISBN: 978-0415886819
Recommended Text: VanFleet, R. (2014). Filial therapy: Strengthening parent-child relationships through play. Sarasota, FL: Practitioner’s Resource Series. ISBN: 978-1568871455
Recommended Text: VanFleet, R. (2012). A parent’s handbook of filial play therapy: Building strong families with play. Boiling Springs, PA: Play Therapy Press. ISBN: 978-1930557123
Recommended Text: Bratton, S., Landreth, G. L., Kellam, T. & Blackard, S. R. (2020). Child parent relationship therapy (CPRT) treatment manual: An evidence-based 10-session filial therapy model. New York, NY: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138688940
Course Description: This course will explore the use of filial therapy as a technique for families who have an identified client as a child. Filial therapy is an approach that teaches parents how to use child-centered play sessions, which can be transferred to the home. Students will learn to model for the parents the same attitudes and skills that they wish the parents would use with their own children.
Course Objectives:
Next Class Scheduled 7/31/25-8/1/25 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. in Marshalltown 16 hours CE, approved for state licensure and APT
Cost: $560
Cohort cost: $480
Staff cost: $400
Staff cohort cost: $320
Required Text: Landreth, G. (2012) Play therapy: The art of the relationship. Accelerated Development, Inc: Muncie, IN. ISBN: 978-0415886819
Required Text: Homeyer, L. & Sweeney, D. (2017) Sandtray therapy: A practice manual. Routledge: New York, NY. ISBN: 978-1138950047
Course Description: During play therapy supervision, it is sometimes difficult to identify and find the words to describe the dynamics of the clients/therapist relationship. Utilizing the techniques of sand tray therapy, the clinician can create a picture in the sand about the case and through supervision uncover the factors that may be impeding the process. This technique offers a unique approach for both individuals to see the case with clarity and enhance the supervisee’s self-awareness. Observe a supervision session where the supervisee conceptualizes the case using miniatures in sand and the supervisor guides the process. Throughout the webinar, learn techniques that facilitate this process and observe the impact it has on the developing play therapist.
Course Objectives:
Next Class Scheduled 8/2/25-8/3/25 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. in Marshalltown 16 hours CE, approved for state licensure and APT
Cost: $560
Cohort cost: $480
Staff cost: $400
Staff cohort cost: $320
Required Text: Landreth, G. (2012) Play therapy: The art of the relationship. Accelerated Development, Inc: Muncie, IN. ISBN: 978-0415886819
Course Description: This course will focus on group based therapy, with a process-oriented framework. The structure will define the goals of the session, assigning small groups, have participants gather materials, and go to assigned areas. The model of practice utilizes building a series off each previous session, intentional progression of skill set, built-in progress for connecting peers and forming rapport with the provider. Each session is self-contained. This class participants will increase their communication and social skills.
Course Objectives:
Next Class Scheduled 830AM-12PM meeting 3/14/25 and 3/21/25 online
8:30-11:45 a.m. each time, 6 hours CE, approved for state licensure and APT
Cost: $245
Cohort cost: $210
Staff cost: $175
Staff cohort cost: $140
Required Text: Landreth, G. (2012) Play therapy: The art of the relationship. Accelerated Development, Inc: Muncie, IN. ISBN: 978-0415886819
Course Description: Our world is a diverse place filled with people of different races, cultures and ethnicities, abilities, gender identifications, and more. In our three hours together we will explore how to infuse our playrooms with multicultural aspects and engage in conversations of cultural background issues that arise in our play therapy treatment. This course examines not only the cultural aspects of working with clients of different backgrounds, but the intersections of marginalized populations. Specifically, we will explore how these intersections are an influence in children’s play with the intention to build a culturally responsive play therapy practice.
Course Objectives:
Next Class Scheduled 4/11/25
8:30-11:45 a.m. on-line only 3 hours CE, approved for state licensure and APT
**Counts as multicultural training for state licensure and APT
Cost: $105
Cohort cost: $90
Staff cost: $75
Staff cohort cost: $60
ocohort30: cohort code ($30/CEU)
Staff codes:
paydeduct: deduct the cost from your paychecks over the course of 12 months
scohort20: staff cohort code ($20/CEU)
individual25: staff individual class code ($25/CEU)
Staff, please complete the Play Therapy Training Agreement below and send to the help email upon registration.
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