Upcoming Play Therapy Trainings
Layers in the Sand: Advanced Processing in the Sandtray
Saturday, April 18, 2026
9 am to 12 pm
This training is the third part of the sandtray training series. This training will dive deeper in the sand to understand how sandtray facilitates the brain, body and personal experience connection for therapeutic work. Identify and practice guided prompts and interventions utilizing the sandtray and processing for a deeper work with clients. In this training, practitioners will gain more confidence in using sandtray with a variety of clients.
$90 for 3 Contact Hours
Presented by Courtney Guhl Huckabay, M.Ed., LPC-S, RPT-S ™, NCC and Kaila Bellinghausen, MS, LPC, RPT ™
Learning Objectives
- Identify who can benefit from sandtray therapy in play therapy sessions.
- Apply and practice directive prompts in sandtray therapy in play therapy.
- Practice processing sandtray scenes created in play therapy sessions.
Grief and Bereavement: Healing Through Hurt
Friday, May 22, 2026
9 am to 12 pm
Grief and loss is a complex and personal experience. This training will assist clinicians in how to recognize, support and understand the grief process throughout the life span. Exploring developmental stages of understanding and coping with grief and death loss, clinicians will be equipped to focus on compassionate and therapeutic interventions to help clients health through hurt.
$90 for 3 Contact Hours
Presented by Courtney Guhl Huckabay, M.Ed., LPC-S, RPT-S™, NCC
Learning Objectives
- Identify the developmental understanding of grief from infancy through adulthood.
- Define the different theories of grief and how to apply to client grief processing.
- Identify and explore interventions to support clients experiencing grief.
- Identify and practice playful techniques and interventions to support clients experiencing grief.
Exploring Parts in the Sand
Friday, June 12, 2026
10 am to 1 pm
Leaning into a client's inner world can support a client's healing journey with all parts of self. This training will explore how to integrate expressive therapies and parts work to deepen a client's self-awareness and self-identity. Utilizing parts work and sandtray therapy, practitioners will learn how to guide clients in facilitating a compassionate relationship with themselves and their world.
$90 for 3 Contact Hours
Presented by Courtney Guhl Huckabay, M.Ed., LPC-S, RPT-S™, NCC
Learning Objectives
- Identify and define parts work.
- Identify the 10 commandments of sandtray therapy.
- Practice and apply sandtray expressive therapies with parts work to deepen the client's therapeutic experience.
Riding the Rollercoaster of Emotions: Playful Applications of the Zones of Regulation
Friday, July 24, 2026
10 am to 1 pm
Emotional dysregulation can feel like a rollercoaster for both children and the adults supporting them. This workshop explores creative, play-based strategies for bringing the Zones of Regulation to life in the therapy room. Through demonstration and interactive activities, therapists will gain practical tools to help children identify emotions, strengthen coping skills, and build emotional awareness and regulation capacity in developmentally appropriate ways.
$90 for 3 Contact Hours
Presented by Kaila Bellinghausen, M.S., LPC, RPT ™
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 ™