Empowering Play: Directive Play Therapy Techniques to Promote Growth
Fri, Jun 14
|The Blue Couch Sioux Falls
Stock up on directive play therapy techniques!


Time & Location
Jun 14, 2024, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM CDT
The Blue Couch Sioux Falls, 3130 W 57th St, Sioux Falls, SD 57108, USA
Guests
About the event
This engaging workshop will guide participants in an in-depth, hands-on approach to utilizing directive techniques in play therapy. Participants will gain knowledge, skills, and techniques to facilitate directive play therapy with various populations including parents, siblings, young children, and teens. Participants will learn and practice directive play therapy interventions to support clients with various presenting concerns including grief, attachment, anxiety, anger, and resistant clients. Ethical considerations and practical resources will be explored.
This workshop is designed for mental health professionals, counselors, and therapists seeking to enhance their skills in understanding and utilizing play as a therapeutic tool. Education hours are available for those who are working towards their Registered Play Therapist credential.
Learning Objectives
Participants will:
- Identify when a directive activity is needed in the therapeutic process and when it is not a good fit
- Learn and practice directive activities for 3 different populations of play therapy clients
- Learn and practice directive activities for 5 different therapeutic concerns
- Explore and apply 5 resources to support directive play therapy approaches
- Identify and address potential ethical consideration for utilizing directive play therapy approaches
This workshop will be conducted by Holly Kelly, LPC-MH, RPT and Kendra Niklason, LPC-MH, RPT. For more information about our workshop presenters, please visit: https://www.thebluecouchcounseling.com/siouxfalls
Tickets
Individual Participant
This ticket includes 6 hours of Education hours credit from The Association for Play Therapy; application for approval from the SD Board of Examiners for Counselors and MFT's has also been made.
$115.00+$2.88 service feeSale ended
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