About this Event
Training Program Description:
Next Place Therapy Services, LLC presents
Exploring The Nine Play Therapy Themes In Child Centered Play Therapy
A Live, Interactive Webinar
This 4.0 credit course was developed for social workers and mental health professionals. It's a live interactive play therapy training for those interested in the therapeutic benefits of play and learning about the 9 themes of play therapy in child-centered play therapy. The webinar will equip participants with essential skills and knowledge to facilitate meaningful change in children’s lives. The session will cover the foundational elements of play therapy, innovative engagement techniques, various modalities for change, and real-world case studies to illustrate practical application. This four-hour live training includes interactive activities, breakout discussions, Q&A, and case scenarios during training to ensure you're fully prepared for the challenges of your work.
"Clients can show us using the toys what often they can not say in words." -Sabra Starnes.
Child-Centered Play therapy is one of the two approaches therapists can use when working with clients ages 2 to 12.
This non-directive play therapy approach allows the client to lead treatment in deciding what to do in sessions using the available play-based interventions and techniques.
Often clients will show us what they think and feel through toys rather than words. Therapists should know the nine themes that may show up in a client session. Often there might be more than one theme in a client session.
This interactive and engaging training will help mental health therapists introduce an understanding of the nine-play therapy themes in child-centered play therapy.
You do not have to have previous background in child-centered play therapy. The training will briefly cover the basics of child-centered play therapy to help understand the themes.
Target audience:play therapists, menatl health professionals at all levels of experience
Content level: beginning to intermediate
About the instructor
Sabra Starnes is the owner and Senior Trainer of Next Place Therapy Services, LLC. She provides adoption counseling and consultation using attachment-based therapy connected with expressive therapies. She is passionate about her clinical work in speaking and training on adoption locally and nationally.
As an expert adoption therapist for the past 24 years, she has the personal experience and professional training to work with adoptees and adoptive families. She strongly advocates for children in care to have permanency or reunify with their birth families. She is passionate about ensuring the adoptee's voice is heard and amplified in adoption spaces. Furthermore, it uses a lens of cultural humility on issues of culture and race.
Sabra has a Master's in Social Work from Catholic University and a Master's in Education from American University. She specializes in adoption, foster care, adoptee support, and transracial parenting support.
She became a Registered Play Therapist in 2003. And a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor in 2015. Sabra's training is engaging, humorous, and fun. She is passionate about educating and supporting clinicians to become effective and highly skilled play therapists.
Learning objectives
After attending this course, participants will be able to…
1. Identify child-centered therapy as one of the historically significant play therapy theories and how this approach involves the nine themes.
2..List the 9 Play Therapy Themes in Child-Centered Play Therapy Sessions that may appear in clients' sessions.
3.Analyze the categories and types of toys clients may use in the nine-play themes to express their worldview.
4.Discuss how the play themes can be effective ways clients use play to work through their social-emotional difficulties and how this shows up in the play therapy sessions.
1:30-2:30pm
Identify Child-Centered as one of the historically significant play therapy theories and how this approach involves the nine themes.
Activity: Lecture/PowerPoint, large and small group discussions, and Q&A
2:30 PM – 2:45 First Break (15 minutes)
2:45 PM – 3:45 Learning Objective 2
List the 9 Play Therapy Themes in Child-Centered Play Therapy Sessions that may appear in clients' sessions.
Activity: Lecture/PowerPoint, large and small group discussions, and Q&A
3:45 PM – 4:45 PM Learning objective 3
Analyze the categories and types of toys clients may use in the nine-play themes to express their worldview.
Activity: Lecture/PowerPoint, large and small group discussions, and Q&A
4:45 PM – 5:45pm Learning objective 4
Discuss how the play themes can be effective ways clients use play to work through their socialemotional difficulties and how this shows up in the play therapy sessions
Course interaction & system requirements
This live webinar is fully interactive. Attendees may ask and answer questions throughout the presentation and participate in instructor-led discussions.
System requirements: (example)
• Operating Systems: Windows XP or higher, MacOS 9 or higher, Android 4.0 or higher
• Internet Browser: Internet Explorer 9.0 or higher, Google Chrome, Firefox 10.0 or higher
• Broadband Internet connection: Cable, High-speed DSL & any other medium that is internet accessible.
Fee & registration
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER: https://sabrastarnes.com/
The cost is $105 and includes CE credit. Register by August 4,2024 at 11:30am.
Course completion & CE info
Course completion requirements: To earn CE credit, social workers must log in at the scheduled time, attend the entire course, and complete an online course evaluation.
Certificates of completion will be emailed within 3 business days of course completion.
Next Place Therapy Services, LLC, provider #2107 , 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. Next Place Therapy Services, LLC maintains responsibility for this course.
ACE provider approval period: 07/30/2024–07/30/2025. Social workers participating in this course receive 4.0 continuing education credits.
This training meets Association for Play Therapy Contact for 4 Live Webinar hours Next Place Therapy is an APT Approved Provider #17-526 and 4 CEUS Next Place Therapy Services, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7270. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Next Place Therapy Services, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Next Place Therapy Services LLC is an approved provider with the National Board of Certified Counselors #7270 and the Association For Play Therapy #17-526
For questions, concerns, or to request special accommodation, please call Sabra Starnes, Owner at 301-531-4227 or email nextplacettraining.com.
Sabra Starnes is an independent Clinical Social Worker licensed in Maryland, DC, Virginia, and Ohio. She is also a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor and Clinical supervisor. She is a national speaker, author, trainer, and digital creator
Sabra is known for her work in creating and delivering training consultations on adoption-related issues using both a professional and personal perspective as a transitional adoptee and adoptive mother. Sabre prayings a personal and professional view around the adoption area and amplifies the adoptee's voice.
Sabra owns Next Place Therapy Services, a group practice in Largo, MD, that serves clients ages 3 to 18 and their families using play therapy and expressive therapies. She also owns Next Place Lounge, which offers hybrid training to mental health clinicians nationally and internationally. she creates and delivers her training on adoption play therapy and sand tray. Along with offering therapy enter practice, she provides clinical and play therapy supervision to mental health therapists.
Sabra ensures that training, supervision, and consultation include the work of a therapist on cultural humility, understanding intersectionality, and working with all clients.
Sabra earned her Bachelor's of Social Work from Bennett College, her Master's in Social Work from Catholic University, and her Master's in Education from the American University. She has training in IFS, EMDR, Brainspotting, Trust Behavior-Related Intervention, Sandtray, and Theraplay.
*By registering for this event, you acknowledge that this webinar/in= person training may be canceled, prior to the scheduled webinar/in-person training, if an adequate number of participants do not register to attend. *
Event Venue
Online
USD 103.22
