Play Therapy: Attachment-Based Treatment Interventions for Trauma, Anxiety, OCD and More!

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Tammi Van Hollander, LCSW, RPT-S™ Related seminars and products

Main Line Play Therapy

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Tammi Van Hollander, LCSW, RPT-S™, is a licensed clinical social worker and registered play therapist-supervisor™. She is the owner of Main Line Play Therapy: An Expressive Therapy Center in Bryn Mawr, PA. Tammi is an international speaker, play advocate and founding board member of The World Association for Sand Therapy Professionals. She is an Advanced Certified Trainer for the Nurtured Heart Approach®, a certified FirstPlay® practitioner, trained in level one Theraplay® and EMDR. Her work and creative interventions in the field of play therapy and Sandtray therapy have been published and internationally recognized. She specializes in attachment, Sandtray play therapy & sensory integration working with children, families, and adults of all ages. Tammi is the author of an attachment-based multisensory story titled Casey’s Greatness Wings: Teaching Mindfulness, Connection and Courage to Children and creator of Greatness Sticks and Greatness Cards. For more information on Tammi’s publications work, visit her website at www.mainlineplaytherapy.com

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Tammi Van Hollander is the owner of Main Line Therapy, LLC. and has employment relationships with the Expressive Arts Therapies and the Mid-Atlantic Play Therapy Institute. She receives royalties as a published author. Tammi Van Hollander receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Tammi Van Hollander is a member of the Association for Play Therapy and the National Association for Social Workers. She is a board member of the World Association for Sand Therapy Professionals and a program committee chair for the Specialists of Schools.

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Objectives

1. Assess anxiety symptoms using play therapy techniques to better inform treatment outcomes.
2. Evaluate the ethical implications and clinical limitations of using play therapy in clinical practice.
3. Integrate attachment-based play activities into your practice to improve client engagement in treatment.
4. Discover how trauma impacts brain development, and how play therapy can strengthen relationships and improve behavior.
5. Demonstrate an effective evidence-based play therapy technique that can treat trauma symptoms and be used with your clients.
6. Determine how play therapy can reframe trauma experiences, increase self-regulation and connect to a mind-body awareness.

Outline

• Assessment and diagnostic
• Techniques to use early on in treatment
• An ongoing process
• Therapeutic benefits
• Emotions and behavior
• Verbal and Non-Verbal
• Communication – learn to listen to your client
• Language, play and drawing development

• Trauma/PTSD
• Anxiety
• OCD
• Depression and self-esteem issues
• ADHD
• Abuse
• Fears/nightmares
• Groups and families

• Non-Directive Techniques:
  • Sand tray work
  • Watercolors
  • House-tree-person
  • Play dough
  • Finger painting
• Directive Techniques:
  • I Spy
  • Story Telling
  • Sentence Completions
  • Doll house
  • Gift boxes
  • Movement
  • What do you want to be when you grow up?
  • What animal am I?
  • Role Playing
  • Maps – where in the world do you want to be?
  • Dance and movement
  • Board games
  • Emotions – Feelings and faces
  • Bam Bam dolls
  • Music

• Wet and dry
  • Selecting the right mediums
  • The Limbic System
• Importance of collaboration
• Children who have been abused
• Sexualized and acting out behaviors
• Importance of self-care

Target Audience

• Play Therapists
• Psychologists
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Educators
• Occupational Therapists
• Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Speech-Language Pathologists