Dawson Counseling and Play Therapy, LLC

Training​ and Supervision for Counseling Professionals

With Lisa Morrell Dawson, MA, MS, LPC, Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor™

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Friday, November 14, 2025 10:00 am – 1:15 pm (CST)

 

Cost: $80

 

3 CE Non-Contact Hours

3 CE ethics hours for Oklahoma LMFT, LPC, and LCSW (Provider #20250385)

 

This course is approved for APT (Provider #17-514.)

This course is approved for Oklahoma LPC, LMFT, and LCSW (Provider #20250385)

 

“Now make sure you talk to them to work on your problem…” is a phrase commonly heard from a caregiver before taking a child to the playroom for play therapy. What is the best way to communicate the process and theory behind play therapy to others? Join us for an experiential course on locating resources, utilizing theoretical practice and language, and crafting your own personalized statement to communicate your process in play therapy!

 

Objectives:

1. Identify at least 3 reliable resources that explain play therapy and therapy with children.

2. Role play explaining therapy and play therapy to a caregiver, director, or co-worker.

3. Draft a personalized statement to communicate with others about play therapy.

4. Identify at least one way to involve a caregiver in the play therapy and therapy process.

 

IMH-E® Professional Competencies Addressed:

• Theoretical Foundations: infant/young child development and behavior, infant/young child and family-centered practice. relationship-focused practice, relationship-focused, therapeutic practice, family relationships and dynamics, attachment, separation, trauma, grief, and loss, cultural competence, psychotherapeutic and behavioral theories of change.

• Law, Regulation, and Agency Policy: ethical practice, government, law, and regulation, agency policy

• Direct Service Skills: observation and listening, responding with empathy, advocacy, intervention/treatment planning, developmental guidance, supportive counseling, parent-infant/young child relationship-based therapies and practices

• Working with Others: building and maintaining relationships, supporting others, collaborating, resolving conflict, empathy and compassion

• Communicating: listening, speaking, writing

• Thinking: analyzing information, solving problems, exercising sound judgment, maintaining perspective, planning and organizing

• Reflection: contemplation, self-awareness, curiosity, professional/personal development, emotional response

 

APT Professional Competencies Addressed:

2a. Apply and articulate the therapeutic powers of play

2b. Demonstrate relationship and rapport building skills (e.g., empathy, safety, unconditional positive regard) by utilizing ‘self’ in relationships with children, caregivers, stakeholders in play therapy

2i. Exhibit multicultural orientation to diversity, equity, and inclusion through a culturally and socially diverse playroom and play therapy process

3b. Consistently evaluate and adjust play therapy practices to meet state and discipline ethical guidelines and codes

3f. Seek and integrate play therapy-specific supervision and consultation

3g. Practice self-care to maintain quality play therapy services

3h. Seek and integrate ongoing knowledge regarding cultural and social diversity in play therapy

 

Schedule (in Central Time)

9:45 am Registration

10:00 am Course Begins

11:30 am Break

11:45 am Course Resumes

1:15 pm Course Ends