Child & Teen Play Therapy:
Trauma, Poly Vagal & Brain Integrating Strategies
Friday, June 13, 2025
9:45am to 2pm (EST)
4 APT Live Webinar CEs &
4 NBCC CEs
$127
50 Total Seats
Treating trauma in children & teens can be an overwhelming experience for a play therapist.
When to ask questions, when to do child centered, making sure you are helping and not harming, keeping the play therapy client CALM and play room safe...
There is SO much happening in trauma informed sessions, that many play therapists often feel imposter syndrome and worry that they might not know enough to really be helpful!
In this training we will review Poly Vagal theory and weave the importance of regulation throughout this trauma informed training. Regulation is KEY when healing through trauma (and to keep things from getting broken in the playroom!).
Assessing the RIGHT (creative and emotional) Hemisphere and lower brain while unpacking trauma is so vital. Children doing Child Centered Play Therapy are already doing this. We will teach you what they are doing and why AND will teach you how to introduce trauma informed activities with your older play therapy clients too.
We take the scary out of it to make trauma informed therapy easy to begin. You can now feel confident!
Child Centered and Ecosystemic play therapy models will be explored.
Be Able to Utilize Creative Play Therapy Tools With Your Child & Teen Clients:
1. Turn your "x" feelings into a cartoon character drawing series prompt
2. The use of various (portable) therapeutic cards to help older children discuss difficult topics
3. The use of sand tray for right brain left brain integration
Learning Objectives
Upon the completion of this course, participants will be able to:
✅ Explain strategies for helping a client remain calm during a play therapy trauma session
✅ Explain tips for when and how to introduce a creative play therapy prompt during a talking session with an older child or teen
✅ Explain tips for noticing when a play therapy client is experiencing a trigger during a trauma session and tips for what to do next
✅ Explain how to ask about trauma and ACES in a parent intake session
✅ Describe the differences between the functions of the higher brain and lower brain, left brain and right brain, in relation to timing play therapy strategies in a trauma focused session
✅ Demonstrate 3 trauma based play therapy strategies and tools from a neuro-bio and Ecosystemic play therapy perspective
Below is an Estimated Schedule (Eastern Standard Time)
9:45am-10:30am Defining Trauma (& research)
10:30-11:30 Science of Safety/Poly Vagal
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-12:30 CCPT trauma based case studies
12:30-2pm Ecosystemic case studies and wrap up
9:45am to 2pm (EST)
4 APT Live Webinar CEs &
4 NBCC CEs
$127
50 Total Seats
Treating trauma in children & teens can be an overwhelming experience for a play therapist.
When to ask questions, when to do child centered, making sure you are helping and not harming, keeping the play therapy client CALM and play room safe...
There is SO much happening in trauma informed sessions, that many play therapists often feel imposter syndrome and worry that they might not know enough to really be helpful!
In this training we will review Poly Vagal theory and weave the importance of regulation throughout this trauma informed training. Regulation is KEY when healing through trauma (and to keep things from getting broken in the playroom!).
Assessing the RIGHT (creative and emotional) Hemisphere and lower brain while unpacking trauma is so vital. Children doing Child Centered Play Therapy are already doing this. We will teach you what they are doing and why AND will teach you how to introduce trauma informed activities with your older play therapy clients too.
We take the scary out of it to make trauma informed therapy easy to begin. You can now feel confident!
Child Centered and Ecosystemic play therapy models will be explored.
Be Able to Utilize Creative Play Therapy Tools With Your Child & Teen Clients:
1. Turn your "x" feelings into a cartoon character drawing series prompt
2. The use of various (portable) therapeutic cards to help older children discuss difficult topics
3. The use of sand tray for right brain left brain integration
Learning Objectives
Upon the completion of this course, participants will be able to:
✅ Explain strategies for helping a client remain calm during a play therapy trauma session
✅ Explain tips for when and how to introduce a creative play therapy prompt during a talking session with an older child or teen
✅ Explain tips for noticing when a play therapy client is experiencing a trigger during a trauma session and tips for what to do next
✅ Explain how to ask about trauma and ACES in a parent intake session
✅ Describe the differences between the functions of the higher brain and lower brain, left brain and right brain, in relation to timing play therapy strategies in a trauma focused session
✅ Demonstrate 3 trauma based play therapy strategies and tools from a neuro-bio and Ecosystemic play therapy perspective
Below is an Estimated Schedule (Eastern Standard Time)
9:45am-10:30am Defining Trauma (& research)
10:30-11:30 Science of Safety/Poly Vagal
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-12:30 CCPT trauma based case studies
12:30-2pm Ecosystemic case studies and wrap up
Buy one training during the Fall 2024 - Summer 2025 training year and EVERY subsequent training
you purchase with us will receive an automatic $25 discount, just for being loyal! No discount code needed.
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⏱️ NBCC and APT require FULL attendance in order to receive CE credit. No partial credit can be granted. APT requires that all cameras are on during the entire training. Attendance is taken throughout each training.
🍎 APT Non Contact CEs: An exam with a passing score of 80% is required for all (Virtual) Live Webinars. Participants may re-take the exam if needed until a passing score of 80% is achieved. All personal info related to our students including email addresses, exam scores, etc remains confidential within the Willow's Crown.
💰 All training purchases are final. 100% refunds are not issued; however, should the participant wish to cancel the purchased training at least 48 hours before the event, 50% of the non-refundable monies may be used towards the purchase of a future training through Willow’s Crown. The purchaser is asked to mention this policy when purchasing the next training in order to receive the fore-mentioned discount. View our Refund/Grievance Policy here. Upon request, the purchaser may substitute the recorded homes study version. The home study version will have less CEs than the live event. See below for details.
👩🏻💻 Many of our workshops are already recorded and in our home study section. If the live event involves hands-on experiential activities, the home study portion will be LESS CEs than the live event. If a student is unable to attend a purchased live event and it is offered in our home study section, the student may request to substitute the training for free by emailing [email protected]
🏢 Live in Person: Local therapists (Lansdowne, VA) may email [email protected] to see if there are any in person seats available for this training.
View our Refund/Grievance Policy here.
🍎 APT Non Contact CEs: An exam with a passing score of 80% is required for all (Virtual) Live Webinars. Participants may re-take the exam if needed until a passing score of 80% is achieved. All personal info related to our students including email addresses, exam scores, etc remains confidential within the Willow's Crown.
💰 All training purchases are final. 100% refunds are not issued; however, should the participant wish to cancel the purchased training at least 48 hours before the event, 50% of the non-refundable monies may be used towards the purchase of a future training through Willow’s Crown. The purchaser is asked to mention this policy when purchasing the next training in order to receive the fore-mentioned discount. View our Refund/Grievance Policy here. Upon request, the purchaser may substitute the recorded homes study version. The home study version will have less CEs than the live event. See below for details.
👩🏻💻 Many of our workshops are already recorded and in our home study section. If the live event involves hands-on experiential activities, the home study portion will be LESS CEs than the live event. If a student is unable to attend a purchased live event and it is offered in our home study section, the student may request to substitute the training for free by emailing [email protected]
🏢 Live in Person: Local therapists (Lansdowne, VA) may email [email protected] to see if there are any in person seats available for this training.
View our Refund/Grievance Policy here.
About Your Teacher, Gabrielle Anderson, LMFT, RPT-S™
Gabrielle Anderson, LMFT, RPT-S™, the teacher for this training is a previous board member for the Virginia Play Therapy Association. She is a therapist for children, teens and adults and enjoys weaving play therapy and other expressive modalities into sessions when appropriate. Gabrielle also runs supervision groups for those in training to become an RPT™. Reach out to Gabrielle if you wish to inquire about participating.
She is the owner of the Family Therapy Center of Northern Virginia, llc and owner of The WIllow's Crown Meditation Studio and Training Facility, llc. She has a specialty in stress management, anxiety and trauma with her private practice clients and utilizes brain based Mindful Meditation when appropriate. She also teaches virtual meditation to therapists, community members and other adults outside of the counseling practice. Reach out directly to Gabrielle if you wish to participate or to find out more. She can also be reached at 571-733-9736.
