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
Be My Co-Therapist™: Dyadic Play Therapy Training Program
November 2025 - October 2026
In this comprehensive clinical training program, child and play therapists will further develop their knowledge and skills in play therapy, expanding this to work with the dyad of child and their parent/caregiver. This training equips you with integrated theoretical knowledge and clinical skills for delivering contemporary Dyadic Play Therapy, with a focus on children up to 10 years and their parents/caregivers.
Be My Co-Therapist™ Module 1: Parent Mental Health Vulnerabilities in Child and Play Therapy
13th November 2025
This workshop will provide an overview of common mental health issues many parents/caregivers experience and support child therapists to recognise these presentations in their practice. Special consideration will also be given to the impacts of a parent’s fertility journey, family violence, and intergenerational trauma.
Be My Co-Therapist™ Module 2: Clinical Skills for Working with Parents/Caregivers
15th & 16th January 2026
This workshop will equip you with core adult counselling skills that supports parent/caregiver engagement. Specific focus will be on deepening assessment conversations, developing shared therapeutic goals and navigating differing views, providing effective feedback about children’s needs and therapy progress, offering therapeutic responses/approaches to be implemented at home, and having hard conversations.
Child at the Centre: Supervision for Working with Children
12th February 2026
This PsyBA-approved Master class 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 Sandplay and Clay Therapy Immersive
15th - 17th April 2026
This immersive event is grounded in Jungian Sandplay Therapy and Gestalt Play Therapy modalities. It will explore symbolic representation of the psyche (our internal world) as it presents through sandplay and clay, with a dash of neuroscience thrown in!
4-day Play Therapy Supervisor Training
4 days across June - July 2026
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.
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.
Kids Talk Too: Verbal Counselling Skills for Child and Play Therapists
This is workshop 1 in a series of workshops designed to equip child and play therapists with essential foundational verbal counselling skills across 4 evidence-based therapy modalities. This workshop will focus on general and Humanistic verbal counselling skills for children.
Case Conceptualisation and Reporting Progress PD Series
This PD Series consists of 4 workshops designed to move you the through the foundations so you have a solid base for developing the therapeutic goals and selecting the most appropriate therapeutic approach for the child….to conceptualising the child’s therapy process and progress….and then reporting on progress and/or change.
Report Writing: Conceptualising and Reporting Progress
Do you sometimes feel like a little lost in the forest when it comes to pulling together all you know about the child and their therapy process and/or progress? This short workshop will offer a process to assist you in conceptualising this richness and effectively presenting it to the adults or systems around the child.
More than a Genogram: Using the Symbolic Family Representation Technique to gain insight into a child’s perceptions of the quality of their family relationships
This webinar strengthens child and play therapists’ skills in gaining insight into the child’s perceptions of the quality of their family (and other) relationships. While you may already use some version of a symbolic genogram, this webinar will go beyond the basics to show how you can use the Symbolic Family Representation Technique dynamically to gain rich and meaningful insights.
Foundations of Case Conceptualisation and Developing Measurable Therapeutic Goals
This short workshop provides the foundational knowledge for formulating case conceptualisations when working with children. You will be introduced to the 5P’s framework – one of the most commonly used case conceptualisation tools in the psychology and mental health space across Australia.
Responding to Suicidal Ideation in Children
Child and play therapists are often the first service provider a child and/or their parent/caregiver shares their suicidal ideation with. This webinar equips child and play therapist with the essential knowledge and skills to effectively respond to your child who presents with suicidal ideation.
Child and Play Therapy Masterclass: 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. It is relevant for both therapists and supervisors alike.
Understanding and Responding to Shame in Children
This webinar is must for all child and play therapists as we focus in on the child’s development of self - the very heart of all our work. We examine how children develop their self-concept, how shame develops and the impacts of shame on their perception of self. Most importantly, we’ll identify an essential therapeutic technique that has the power to transform a child’s healing from shame and develop a healthier self-concept.
Be My Co-Therapist™ – Skills in Practice Demonstrations
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.
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 - 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.
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.
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.
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.