Addressing Developmental Trauma in Play Therapy – November 17, 2023 – Outside

This play therapy training is offered Live In-Person and Virtual via Zoom Platform. Play therapy can involve working with children with perplexing symptoms that do not fit into diagnostic boxes and may include psychotic features. Diagnosis with these children may vary between ODD, DMDD, IED, and bipolar disorder by different play therapy providers and mental health professionals. This training addresses identifying and assessing developmental trauma in play therapy that may be unconscious to a child. Play therapy skills of building rapport with “difficult” clients and evidence-based stabilization skills for fight, flight, and freeze responses will be taught, along with the role of the therapist as the client reintegrates back into the present.