Play Tank Manifesto! Create Your Own Play Therapy Techniques

6 CE’s available – Sunday, March 25, 2012, 9AM – 4:30PM

Limited to 10 participants

Provider # 06172

Learn several new play therapy techniques, manifest creativity through art and play, incorporate child centered play, cognitive behavioral therapy, and energy work into the creation of your own techniques! Leave with a booklet full of new techniques created at this training. Including yours!

When:

To Be Announced

Where:

Therapy With a Twist – 208 W. 260th, Bronx NY 10471 (Private practice setting – play room and other supplies included)

When:

Sunday March 25, 2012, 9:00AM – 4:30PM

CE’s Granted:

6

Fee:

$145 plus a $15 registration fee

Led By:

Wendy Ludlow, LCSW, Registered Play Therapist-supervisor and an approved provider of The Association for Play Therapy.

Registration Deadline

Please register promptly. Confirmation will be sent to all registrants via email – please ensure receipt of confirmation.

Description:

In this 6 hour work shop you will be taken on a journey into a think tank turned play tank and manifest your own play therapy technique/s. First your will learn several new play therapy techniques developed by this trainer, then you will be immersed in creative activity, and ultimately you will be given a template for creating your own play therapy techniques.

The building blocks of creativity will be discussed, and your imagination will be tapped. Leave with a booklet of all the techniques created during this workshop – including yours! Integrate child centered play therapy with cognitive behavioral therapy and other directive styles. Develop YOUR style and build your expertise.

This will be a fun, creative, and productive day with something to show for it. Experiential exercises will facilitate your creative finesse and productivity. Leave this training with new strategies and techniques readily available to add to your repertoire.

Our training sessions are also a terrific networking opportunity also!


NY Play Therapy Training – The Language of Play

Intensive Experiential Training in the Core Skill of Child Centered Play Therapy!

 

THIS SATURDAY April 21-2012

Limited to 8 participants

Provider # 06172

You will get very individualized coaching and training in a supportive and experiential atmosphere.

  • Small Group Play Therapy Training
  • Private Practice setting – individualized attention
  • Experiential clinical training in a working lay room
  • Leave this Training with the ability to use the skills!

When:

Sunday June 10, 2012 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 P.M.

Where:  Therapy With a Twist,

208 W. 260, Bronx NY  10471

Time:

9:30 – 4:30 (1 hour lunch, 2- 15 min. breaks)

CEs Granted:

6

Fee:

$145 plus a $15 registration/CE fee

Description:

In this workshop, participants will get an intensive skill basked introductory training on the language of child centered play.  Although considered a basic skill, many clinicians working with children have never had a training specific to the language of child centered play.  Do you know what to say in a therapy session when a child:

  • Gets up to walk out of the door?
  • Won’t stay Still?
  • Makes a mess?
  • Starts to cry?
  • Is acting out aggressive play scenes?
  • Doesn’t want to play?
  • Won’t answer questions?
  • Looks at you like you’re crazy?
  • Tells you that you sound funny?
  • Wants you to pretend to be a baby?
  • Tries to kill a baby doll?
  • Wants to put handcuffs on you?

Learn valuable language skills that will facilitate your ability to provide therapeutic intervention with children, teens, parents, and families.  Essential skills that will empower you to teach parents, teachers, and care-givers how to set appropriate limits, better understand their inner motivations, and how to effectively support their ability to communicate.

If you struggle with what to say when working with a child therapeutically or how to set appropriate limits, then you will benefit from this training. This training is for anyone working with children and families who has the desire to increase their knowledge and skill base in the language of play!

 


 

Supervision & CE Group 2011/12 DETAILS

Limited to 6 participants

When:

Sundays from 10:00AM – 12:15PM on the following dates:
October 9, 2011
November 6, 2011
December 4, 2011
January 8, 2012
February 12, 2012
March 4, 2012
April 8, 2012
May 6, 2012
June 3, 2012

Where:

208 West 260th Street, Riverdale (Da Bronx) NY, 10471

Time:

Sunday mornings from 10:00AM – 12:15PM

Missed groups:

Make up assignments given for CEU credit if a make up group cannot be made. Opportunities will be made to make up missed groups.

Deadline to register:

ASAP space permitting – limited to 6 participants (register here)

Credit granted:

Basic play therapy training certificate given – approved by The Association for Play Therapy provider # 06-512: 9 Play Therapy CE’s, 9 hrs. group supervision

Fee:

$145 per monthly group (10% discount if total is paid up front)
$25 non-refundable registration fee
**Sliding fee made available – contact Wendy at Wendy@TherapyWithaTwist.com.

Note: Members must commit to full series and either pay in full up front or bring dated checks for each month to first class. Checks will be held and deposited on or after the date of the scheduled group.

 


Play Therapy Techniques

APT Training Provider # 06-172

1.5 CEs Offered

A 1.5 hour teleconference from the comfort of your own home or office!

Learn at least 10 new Play Therapy Techniques and Be Ready to Use Them!

Unique Techniques to support:

  • self-soothing ability
  • problem solving ability
  • reduction in anxiety
  • replacement of behavioral problems
  • improvement of Frustration tolerance
  • development of coping skills

Techniques:

Simple, affordable, and effective! After this training, you will be ready to implement the techniques

When:

To Be Announced

Where:

On your phone!  Bring your lunch – Teleconference for 1.5 hrs. Teleconference details to be given upon registration.

Time:

3-4:30 p.m. NYC Time

Cost:

$55


Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy

Basic Theory, Techniques, & Interventions

6 CE’s Available

TBA

(register for cognitive behavioral full day training in drop down box)

Tools to significantly increase your repertoire

Therapy Training NYCognitive behavioral therapy has been demonstrated in the research as a significantly effective modality for anxiety, depression, PTSD, OCD, and ADD/ADHD.  This training will give you the basic skills needed to provide effective cognitive behavioral play therapy techniques with understanding of the theory behind the treatment.  In this 6 hour work shop learn effective cognitive behavioral techniques for use in the playroom, intervention strategies for use with parents and teachers, and effective conceptualization methods that will enable you to create your own cognitive behavioraql play tehrapy interventions.  An overview of the basic theory involved in CBPT will be presented as well as techniques in action with children/teens in therapy sessions.  Practice exercises for use between monthly teleconference sessions will cement your knowledge and ability to incorporate valuable knowledge and tools into your therapeutic style.  Handouts will be sent via email, as will certificates of completion.  A fun, productive, accredited training from the comfort of your own home!

Where:

Therapy With A Twist, 208 W. 260th St., Bronx, NY 10471
Phone: (718) 601-1004. Directions: The doorway is at the rear of the house – turn right at the bottom of the driveway – door is on the back of the house.  Private practice setting, play room provided!

When:

TBA

Cost:

 


Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy

Structured play therapy tools that make a difference: an introduction

Provider for The Association for Play Therapy # 06172

An important training for anyone working with children that have disruptive behavioral issues. Learn how to begin treatment for a child with ADHD and/or other disruptive behavioral  issues, and for his/her parents too. In addition, learn the basic strategies and pitfalls that you need to know to be effective.

Next Training Date:

TBA

Fee:

$135 plus a $5 registration fee
**Discounts are provided to those in need! Please contact Wendy Ludlow at Therapy With A Twist for more information.
Email: wendy@therapywithatwist.com
Phone: (646) 213-0294

CEs Offered:

6 CEs offered

Max Enrollment:

Limited to 10 participants

Description

Adventurous or Dangerous?  Misbehaved or mismanaged?  Troublemakers or idea-creators?  Leaders or Bullies? NY Play Therapy Training

In this workshop, participants will get an intensive skill based introductory training on cognitive behavioral play therapy and effective strategies for beginning treatment.  Myths about ADHD and other disruptive behavioral disorders will be debunked, as well as myths about treatment strategies.  A parenting model will be over-viewed, and the importance of conceptualization of these children and their environments will be emphasized.  A beginning skill set to utilize in the playroom will be demonstrated through video demonstration and experiential exercises.  Although their are basic strategies considered critical to intervention for children with disruptive behavior disorders such as ADHD, many clinicians working with these children have never had a training specific to such skills and common pitfalls – particularly with an emphasis on keeping it in the realm of playful – evidenced – therapeutic intervention.

Learn valuable language skills that will facilitate your ability to provide therapeutic intervention for children with ADHD or other disruptive behavioral disorders.  Learn the beginning essential skills that will empower you as an effective treatment provider.

If you struggle with how to provide intervention for this population, then you will benefit from this training.  This training is for anyone working with children and families who have the desire to increase their knowledge and skill base in the language of play therapy for children with ADHD and other disruptive behavioral disorders.


Play Therapy Supervision & CE Group Series

Sunday Morning Group (In Riverdale in The Bronx)
NEW: Monday morning group (meets in Greenwich Village)
- Meets one time per month
APT Provider # 06-172
Fall/Winter Group – 2010/11
Make connections*Build your resume*Get Skilled

Limited to 6 participants – Registration begins now!
Credit granted: Basic training play therapy certificate given – approved by The Association for Play Therapy:
10 Play Therapy CE’s, 10 hrs. group supervision granted

 


Learn Play Therapy Where the Kids Live it!

Add positive energy and playfulness to your style
Make connections
Develop Your Expertise
Small group, interactive, playful, and conscious focused learning

When:

TBA

Where:

(Sunday) Therapy With a Twist located at 208 W. 260th, Bronx NY 10471. Training is located in the quiet neighborhood of N.W. Riverdale in The Bronx – near the #1 train/#9 bus.

Max Enrollment:

***Limited to 8 participants***

Description:

In this play therapy group training series you will get the support, attention, and quality individualized clinical training and supervision that you deserve. Earn supervision and Play Therapy CEU credit while building relationships and skills in this 10 month series. Topics include but are not limited to: child centered play therapy, cognitive behavioral play therapy, drama play therapy, art play therapy, group play therapy, positive behavioral support,parent coaching, and filial play therapy. You will also learn about how a play therapy practice functions.

Training will take place in the comfortable private practice setting of Wendy Ludlow, LCSW, aka Therapy With at Twist. The Play room will be open!

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