Tele-Play Therapy: Techniques to Help Kids Increase Trust & Safety, Unlock Emotions, Ignite Imagination and Boost Resilience

Credits

Faculty

Tammi Van Hollander, LCSW, RPT Related seminars and products: 5

Owner

Main Line Play Therapy

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Tammi Van Hollander, LCSW, RPT-S, is a licensed clinical social worker, registered play therapist supervisor, and owner of Main Line Play Therapy in Bryn Mawr. PA. She is an international speaker and play advocate. Her work and creative interventions in the field of play therapy have been published and internationally recognized. She is an Advanced Certified Trainer for the Nurtured Heart Approach®, and a Certified FirstPlay® Practitioner.

Tammi is a founding board member of The World Association for Sand Therapy Professionals. She specializes in sand tray play therapy, sensory integration and attachment, working with children, families, and adults of all ages. She's the author of Casey’s Greatness Wings and creator of Greatness Sticks© & Greatness Cards. Tammi is a sought-after expert for speaking engagements, podcasts and webinars.

 

Speaker Disclosures: 

Financial: Tammi Van Hollander is the owner of Main Line Therapy, LLC. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. 

Non-Financial: Tammi Van Hollander is a member of the Association for Play Therapy.

Additional Info

Program Information

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Objectives

1. Compose ways to explain telehealth to parents and how to prepare for play therapy sessions.
2. Determine how the therapeutic powers of play attribute to effectiveness of play therapy interventions.
3. Design ways play therapy techniques, such as hide and seek, can be used to form healthy attachments with the family in a tele-play therapy setting.
4. Develop the skills needed to teach parents and caregivers how to play with their child and how to make it a part of their daily play therapy routine.
5. Demonstrate the three stands of the Nurtured Heart Approach® and the power of resetting for clinicians and clients.
6. Apply bibliotherapy and storytelling to offer a safe psychological distance from problems and to how it can be used as a teaching tool to explain current events.

Outline

Grounding Self Reflection Exercise

The Therapist and Parent Relationship: Building Alliance

• Parent coaching and support
• Intro to Nurtured Heart Approach®
  • How to implement with treatment team
  • Greatness interventions to use with clients and families

Intake for Telehealth – Family and Child Assessment

• Explaining Teleheath to parents
• Pros and cons of tele-play therapy
• Four-part Intake process
• Demonstration and experiential of family intake session
• Family play assessments: Group activity

Play Therapy for Healthy Attachments, Attunement and Regulation

• Neuroscience of attachment
• Attachment-based family interventions
• Play-based interventions to help children regulate mind and bodies

Helping Kids Creatively Navigate Current Events

• Bibliotherapy: Suggested books to use therapeutically
• Story-telling, music, and videos as a tool to teach current events
• Helping parents and therapists when children ask hard questions

Creative Tele-Play Therapy Interventions -Therapeutic powers of play

• Sensory play
• Mindfulness play therapy
• Theraplay
• Nature-based play therapy
• CBT play therapy
• Greatness activities
• A toolbox full of resources for play-based virtual activities

Final Activity

• Self-care mindmap

Benefits/Challenges/Scope of Practice

Target Audience

• Play Therapists
• School Psychologists
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Educators
• Occupational Therapists
• Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Speech-Language Pathologists
• Psychologists