Upcoming Play Therapy Trainings
Finding Hope in Hard Places: Bringing Resources of Faith into the Therapy Room
Friday, September 4, 2026
10 am to 1 pm
This training equips clinicians with practical strategies for integrating resources of faith into play therapy and psychotherapy across the lifespan. Participants will learn how to incorporate faith-based interventions to support emotional expression, trauma processing, grief work, and self-esteem development. The workshop includes demonstration of play-based interventions and application of faith-integrated strategies through case examples and experiential learning. Clinicians will leave with practical tools to integrate resources of faith into clinical work in ways that support healing and resilience.
$90 for 3 Contact Hours
Presented by Kaila Bellinghausen, M.S., LPC, RPT ™
Learning Objectives
1. Describe ethical considerations for integrating resources of faith into psychotherapy.
2. Identify developmentally appropriate practices of faith that can be incorporated into therapeutic work with children, adolescents, and adults.
3. Demonstrate faith-integrated interventions that support emotional regulation, grief, trauma processing, or self-esteem.
4. Apply faith-integrated interventions to clinical case examples across modalities, including play therapy, CBT, and EMDR.
5. Explain how resources of faith can support emotional expression, meaning-making, and healing.
Basics of Sandtray
Friday, October 23, 2026
9 am to 12 pm
$90 for 3 Contact Hours
Presented by Courtney Guhl Huckabay, M.Ed., LPC-S, RPT-S™ , NCC and Kaila Bellinghausen, M.S., LPC, RPT™
- Identify the history of sandtray work in therapy.
- Describe the basic set up for sandtray and miniature selection in play therapy room set up.
- Identify and understand the 5 phases of sandtray therapy for children in play therapy.
- Identify the 10 commandments of sandtray therapy and how to incorporate into play therapy sessions.
Sandtray Applications and Practice
Friday, November 6, 2026
9 am to 12 pm
$90 for 3 Contact Hours
Presented by Courtney Guhl Huckabay, M.Ed., LPC-S, RPT-S™ , NCC and Kaila Bellinghausen, M.S., LPC, RPT™
- Identify who can benefit from sandtray therapy in play therapy sessions.
- Identify the different worlds created in sandtray during play therapy sessions.
- Apply and practice directive prompts in sandtray therapy in play therapy.
- Practice processing sandtray therapy scenes created in play therapy sessions.