Playful Healing: Integrating Play Therapy in Family Sessions

Learn how to seamlessly incorporate play therapy techniques into your family sessions, in this engaging and interactive online event!
About this Event

This workshop meets APT’s definition of Live Webinar. This training is a virtual training only.

Join us for an exciting online event exploring play therapy's powerful impact in family sessions. Discover how to effectively incorporate play-based techniques to enhance family communication, understanding, and healing. Led by experienced therapists, this event offers valuable insights and practical strategies to strengthen relationships and support emotional growth.

Training Description:3-hour live webinar will focus on Filial and Theraplay, which are two very significant contributions to the field of Play Therapy. The purpose of this online training is for participants to learn and understand these approaches only.Theraplay® is a child and family modality of play therapy for building and enhancing attachment, self-esteem, trust in others, and joyful engagement.
Rated as "effective" by the SAMHSA National Registry for Evidenced–Based Programs and Practices, it is based on the natural patterns of playful, healthy interaction between parent and child. It is personal, physical, and fun.Filial therapy is a closely related form of child-centered play therapy that involves the parents or caregivers directly as the agents of therapeutic change. This is a flexible model, with various approaches to best fit the circumstance and referring issue. The parent or caregiver is present in every session and often leads the session themselves. Parents are trained to conduct child-centered play sessions, called "special play time."

Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss the history and development of Theraplay and Filial Therapy, two play-based approaches to use with families.

2. Discuss Filial and Theraplay interventions and techniques families can use in play sessions.

3. Analyze the relationship between parent and child to address the family dynamics that can influence how the family relates and interacts within the family.

Please note: Trainings must have a minimum of 4 participants; if there are fewer the training will be canceled within 48–72 hours before the training. And you will receive a full refund.

Next Place Therapy Services is an approved provider #17-526Please check your time zone Please check your time zone her. Questions, please get in touch with us at [email protected]

Don't miss this opportunity to learn and connect with other professionals in the field. Register now and embark on a journey of transforming family dynamics through the power of play!

About the Presenter: Sabra Starnes is a Clinical Social Worker, a transracial Adoptee, and an adoptive mother of two sons. Sabra and her twin sister were adopted as infants in a closed domestic adoption. Growing up in a transracial family in the Midwest had many joys and challenges. Sabra and her family experienced racism and discrimination as a transracial family. As an expert adoption therapist for the past 23 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 the Founder of Next Place Therapy Foundation, a non-profit she founded in 2020 with the mission to provide post-adoption support to the Adoptee and adoptive families locally and nationally. Sabra received her Bachelor’s in social work from Bennett College, her Master's in Social Work from Catholic University, and a Master's in Education from American University. She specializes in adoption, foster care, parenting issues, and skills.She provides adoption counseling and consultation using an attachment-based therapy connected with expressive therapies. Furthermore, she is passionate about her clinical work in speaking and training on adoption locally and nationally on various adoption topics to amply the adoptee experience.As a lifelong learner, she has received training in Brainspotting, EMDR, IFS, Sandtray, Theraplay, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, and Trusted Behavior Relation Intervention.