Training Solutions
Now you can practice with greater clarity, direction, and confidence.
Discover how to deeply integrate your knowledge of children’s counselling to become an effective therapist with our professional development workshops.
Katherine will not only teach you leading-edge theories of children’s counselling and play therapy, but she’ll give you the vital frameworks that will help you integrate the methods into your own practice.
What’s more, you’ll learn how to express the value and processes of play-based therapies to parents, carers, allied health, and medical professionals.
Join over 2,000 other forward-thinking mental health professionals who have already incorporated their skills with our training
No matter what your profession - counsellor, psychologist, social worker, or any type of mental health clinician - we have a workshop to suit you.
Plus there’s no need to wait... access our collection of recorded workshops any time.
You’ll also benefit from post-workshop support via our private Facebook group.
And in the not-too-distant future, we hope to be resuming our signature, in-person workshops in Hobart (where we’re based!).
Need a good excuse for a trip to Tasmania? You can thank us later!
Live Workshops
Balancing the Tightrope: A brain-based, relationship-oriented approach to supervision
Thursday 16th May 2024
This masterclass explores beyond the surface of competence and confidence, enhancing supervisors’ capacity to balance on the tightrope of the supervisory relationship to promote safety for deep learning while ensuring competency-based practice.
Child at the Centre: Supervision for working with children
Monday 8th July 2024
This masterclass provides participants with essential knowledge and skills in supervising child psychology practice. Applying a competency-based, child-centred, and systemic model of supervision practice that holds the child at the centre, supervisors will strengthen their capacity to support supervisee competencies and navigate legal and ethical issues that commonly arise.
3-Day Play Therapy Supervisor Training Program
Wednesday 10th - Friday 12th July 2024
This competency-based play therapy supervisor training program prepares those who wish to supervise play therapists with the necessary foundations for effective supervision in this unique field of practice.
Balancing the Tightrope: A brain-based, relationship-oriented approach to supervision
Monday 30th September 2024
This masterclass explores beyond the surface of competence and confidence, enhancing supervisors’ capacity to balance on the tightrope of the supervisory relationship to promote safety for deep learning while ensuring competency-based practice.
Child at the Centre: Supervision for working with children
Thursday 3rd October 2024
This masterclass provides participants with essential knowledge and skills in supervising child psychology practice. Applying a competency-based, child-centred, and systemic model of supervision practice that holds the child at the centre, supervisors will strengthen their capacity to support supervisee competencies and navigate legal and ethical issues that commonly arise.
Child & Play Therapy Advanced Supervisor Training - Supervision of Supervision Program
August 2023 – May 2024
This exclusive and cutting-edge advanced supervisor 9 month training program meets an important need in the child and play therapy professional community. It provides a safe space for supervisors to reflect on, discuss, and develop their supervision practice.
Registrations for the 2023 program have now closed. If you would like to express your interest in the 2024 program, please email Katherine your expression of interest directly at katherine@psychologyandplay.com.au
Recorded Workshops
Child and Play Therapy: Essentials for effective and sustainable practice
This free workshop will explore topics such as understanding your system and how it shapes your practice, conceptualising children’s therapeutic needs, the role of parents/caregivers in child therapy, the principles of child therapy and structuring services to support sustainability into the long-term as a clinician working with children.
Be My Co-Therapist™ for Child Therapists - Skills in Practice Series: Working with Parents/Caregivers
This is your opportunity to be a “fly on the wall” and observe Katherine at work as she demonstrates therapeutic skills in practice! Through in-depth role plays with Katherine as therapist, we will explore ways of working sensitively with parents/caregivers in common scenarios that arise in our child and play therapy practice.
Bundle & Save - Get 20% Off When You Purchase These Workshops Together
Revisiting Case Conceptualisation: The Cornerstone of Therapeutic Practice & Themes in Play Therapy: Holding All the Possibilities
Select to register for both Masterclasses and receive 20% off the total of both.....a saving of $128!
Child Therapy Masterclass - Themes in Play Therapy: Holding All the Possibilities
This Masterclass is for all play therapists seeking to deepen their understanding of children’s play and the numerous themes that emerge in the play therapy process. We will explore how to identify play themes through multiple theoretical lenses, and case discussion will illustrate how to consider them in the context of case conceptualisation and parent feedback.
Revisiting Case Conceptualisation: The Cornerstone of Therapeutic Practice
This workshop will add to your existing knowledge and skills by sharpening your case formulation skills to deepen clinical work, remain targeted towards the needs of the client and their system, and transform therapeutic outcomes.
Child Therapy Masterclass Series - Cognitive Reprocessing in Play Therapy with Traumatised Children
This workshop addresses this scepticism by shedding light on the therapeutic process – the ‘how’ play therapy works to facilitate cognitive restructuring that addresses shame-based self-schemas, strengthens self-concept and supports a child’s healthy emergence of self.
Child Therapy Masterclass Series - Integrative Play Therapy: Mastering the art of the Play Therapy Dimensions Model
This workshop will enhance your existing knowledge and skills and support you to confidently move into integrative play therapy practice, anchoring to the Play Therapy Dimensions Model (PTDM). It will not only enhance your play therapy practice, it will also provide you with a clear framework and language to articulate your play therapy work to adults around the child.
Child Therapy Masterclass Series - Be My Co-Therapist™: Working with Parent Mental Health Presentations
This workshop will provide an overview of common mental health issues many parents/caregivers experience. It will support child therapists to recognise these presentations in their practice, and offer a range of therapeutic approaches for supporting these adults. Special consideration will be given to adults with Borderline Personality Disorder and the impacts of family violence.
Child Therapy Masterclass Series - Neuroscience of Play: Applications in Practice
This workshop will bring you up to date with the latest neuroscience research and theories of play, and how this applies to play therapy practice. Through interactive discussion and case examples, it will offer practical frameworks and therapeutic applications for both your individual therapy with the child, and your work with their parents/caregivers or other systems around them (e.g. education).
Child Therapy Masterclass Series - Be My Co-Therapist™: Developing Therapeutic Response Plans
This workshop goes right to the heart of identifying a child’s primary therapeutic needs and processes of change, shaping these into highly specific therapeutic goals, and from this, developing individualised Therapeutic Response Plans for parents/caregivers/educators to implement in home and school contexts.
Buy a bundle of Recorded Workshops & Save!
Purchase this particular bundle of recorded workshops to receive a very generous discount!
Responding to Child Sexual Abuse and Inappropriate Sexualised Behaviours
This workshop offers practical information, frameworks of practice and therapeutic interventions for promoting protective behaviours when working with children who have experienced sexual abuse or engage in inappropriate sexualised behaviours.
Be My Co-Therapist: Engaging Caregivers and Systems in Child Therapy
Deepen your therapeutic skills and grow in your confidence when working with caregivers during child counselling/therapy. Experiential, reflective and grounded in the needs of the child.
Child-Sensitive Service Delivery Design
THIS WORKSHOP IS PARTICULARLY SUITED TO THOSE WORKING IN PRIVATE PRACTICE SETTING with a focus on provision of counselling/therapy for children. Reflective, practical, action-focussed, and grounded in the needs of the child and your business.
Demystifying Trauma Recovery: Application of the 3-Phase Trauma Therapy Model with Children
This workshop demystifies the ‘how to’ of trauma recovery therapy with children by providing a robust clinical framework for the therapeutic process.
Or to discuss a customised training workshop or conference keynote presentation for your organisation, please email us at katherine@psychologyandplay.com.au or call 0408 773 783.