Description
WORK TOWARD BECOMING A REGISTERED PLAY THERAPIST
Inviting Parents into Play Therapy: Three Models with Variations
DATE, TIME AND LOCATION
November 1, 2025, 9:00 AM – 12:15 PM (includes one 15 minute break) – 3 CEUs available
Location: 684 – 14th Street, Oakland, CA 94612
TARGET AUDIENCE
This course is designed for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, LEPs, pre-licensed associates and graduate mental health students.
Cost: $105.00; Limited to 10 participants
PREREQUISITES
None
DESCRIPTION
When parents are integrated into their children’s treatment, play therapy is often faster, more efficient and can have a deeper impact. Integrating parents deepens the family buy in and expands therapy into the home setting by teaching parents essential skills. Bringing parents into play therapy creates opportunities to address intergenerational trauma by replacing trauma based reactions with new, healthier patterns.
This workshop explores three models that have been used for decades to successfully treat children in the family context: Family Play Therapy, Therapy (™) and Filial Therapy. Essential skills from each of the three models will be demonstrated. Case presentations will highlight how the models can be incorporated with non-directive play therapy and with each other to address complex problems.
TRAINER
Katrinca Ford is a licensed marriage and family therapist and Register play therapist/ supervisor. She has been providing play therapy to children and families in the Bay Area for over 20 years. Prior to becoming a therapist, Katrinca worked with children in a variety of settings including 15+ years teaching preschool. Currently Katrinca sees children and families in her office in downtown Oakland. Katrinca enjoys sharing what she knows about children, child development and play therapy with others. She is known for her lively, informative and engaging trainings.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Describe a brief history of each of these models: Family Play Therapy, Therapy ™, and Filial Therapy and what problems each was designed to address
- Learn three strengths of and one counter indication for use for each of the three models.
- Learn two techniques from Family Play Therapy that participants can utilize immediately with clients.
- Learn two techniques from Therapy ™ that participants can utilize immediately with clients.
- Learn two techniques from Filial Therapy that participants can utilize immediately with clients.
- Describe how one, two or all three of these models might be integrated into a current case
Continuing Education
Growth Through Play Therapy is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists,1032322, to sponsor continuing education for LMFT’S, LCSW’S, LPCC’S AND LEP’S. They maintain responsibility for this program/course and its content. There is an additional charge of $25 for CEs.
Growth through Play Therapy is an approved provider for the Association for Play Therapy APT 09-241. There is no extra charge for APT educational credits.
Partial credit cannot be offered. This workshop and presenter have no conflict of interest in presenting this workshop, nor is there any commercial support.
ACCOMMODATIONS
To request accommodations for special needs, please email the Program Administrator at kepernet@gmail.com
GRIEVANCES
To obtain the grievance policy or report a grievance please email kepernet@gmail.comor call 510-923-0520
CERTIFICATES – Course Completion certificates will be awarded at the end of the course in exchange for a completed evaluation form. Course meets the qualifications for 6 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Growth through Play Therapy is an approved provider for The Association of Play Therapy, 09-24
CANCELLATION POLICY
Full refund if canceled 45 days in advance minus $50 administrative fee; after that date there will be no refund unless space is filled from the waiting list. In the case of insufficient enrollment, the training will be postponed or cancelled and there will be a full refund offered.
QUESTIONS
Contact Katrinca Ford at 925-831-1926 or katrinca@familyplaytherapy.com
Partial credit cannot be offered. This workshop and presenter have no conflict of interest in presenting this workshop, nor is there any commercial support.
