Trainers

Jeannette Harroun is a Marriage and Family Therapist and Registered Play Therapist. She has a private practice in Lafayette, CA where she provides psychotherapy and individual consultation and supervision.  Her approach to therapy is described as positive, warm and playful. She works with children, teens and parents in addressing a variety of concerns including self-regulation, self-esteem, attachment, tantrums and impulsivity, parenting/co-parenting/blended family issues, anxiety, depression, school and motivational issues, trauma, and divorce.  She is currently a collaborative supervisor for the Wright Institute. She has been an adjunct faculty member with the University of Phoenix and a workshop provider with John F. Kennedy University.

Her practice is located within the Bay Area Psychotherapy Institute (BAPTI) non-profit and professional community and she has served in several roles on the BAPTI Board of Directors including Marketing Director, Vice President and Treasurer.  She is a member of both the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists and the Association for Play Therapy. She was the 2014 President of the San Francisco Chapter of the Association for Play Therapy and served on the SF-CALAPT Board from 2013 – 2015.

Her play therapy training includes child-centered play, sandtray, and filial therapy (both intensive and advanced coursework).  In addition, she has a certificate in Mindful Schools K-12 Curriculum Training and in Neuroscience and Somatic Skill Building.  She is a Positive Discipline Parent Educator and an American Psychological Association Adults and Children Together (ACT) Program facilitator (both parent educator and provider trainer).

Prior to becoming a therapist, Jeannette worked for the University of California where she became known both for her HR expertise and the collection of toys she had in her office which colleagues could borrow and play with for stress relief.  Her slingshot animal collection was particularly popular. She continues to love toys and often adds to her current playroom collection.  In addition, she’s an avid videogamer.

She’s run drama therapy groups serving adults with developmental disability, worked in school-based mental health, incorporated drama therapy and play on a skilled nursing unit and Alzheimer’s unit in a hospital setting, provided early childhood mental health consultation in the SF system of care, and supervises creative arts therapists and play therapists.

Kimberly is currently the Associate Director of Clinical Services for the Youth Services Bureau of San Francisco YMCA (Urban Services), the Level One Instructor at I-West Institute for Developmental Transformations, and practices play therapy and drama therapy (Developmental Transformations) in her private practice, incorporating embodiment and self-awareness into relational play.  She has offices in Oakland and in San Francisco.

Kimberly has a lot of great memories of childhood play, but her favorites are playing in the climbing tree in the corner of her front yard with the neighborhood kids and her best friend from across the street, choreographing shows for her parents, and having impromptu parades with streamers on her bike down the street.

I would be glad to hear from you and to share information about my services: psychotherapy, general supervision for pre-licensed therapist, specialized supervision for therapists working becoming  Registered Play Therapists, consultations for experienced therapists and trainings in play therapy and sandtray therapy.