Play Therapy and Divorce: How to Stay Out of Court

Play therapists are trained to keep the relationship with both parents and the children they work with, but when they get a subpoena to be involved in a custody case the relationship becomes quite challenged.  Participants will learn how to handle divorce cases from intake session and beyond to keep themselves out of court.  Participants will learn how to integrate play therapy to decrease triangulation, assess the co-parenting relationship, and treat children dealing with divorce.  

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

1. create a divorce treatment plan from a play therapy perspective.Click or tap here to enter text. 
2. use play therapy activities to help assess the co-parenting relationship, treat children with divorce, and decrease triangulation
3. apply ethics involved in handling a subpoena and writing play therapy notes.  
4. identify triangulation and how to use this as a goal to help heal the child with play therapy. 

Limited to 50 participants. Your spot will not be guaranteed without completion of registration with payment.

3 Live Webinar CE | Intermediate Level | Play Therapy Special Topics

VIRTUAL: This will be a virtual presentation. Participants must be visible (video on) throughout the presentation and will be awarded 3 LIVE WEBINAR CE upon successful completion of a post test. This workshop meets APT's definition of "Live Webinar."

FAPT is approved by the Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to Play Therapy. APT Approved Provider 02-115. FAPT maintains responsibility for the program. Registrants understand and agree that any photograph (screenshot), video or audio recording of themselves may be used to further promote FAPT.

FAPT is approved by the Florida Department of Health under FL Statute 491 to offer continuing education for Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors. Provider Number BAP-50-10520 expires 03/31/2027. FAPT is approved by the Florida Department of Health under FL Statute 490 to offer continuing education for Psychologists. Provider Number BAP-50-10520 expires 05/31/2026.

Cancellation Policy: All cancellations must be requested in writing and received no later than February 21, 2025. Cancellations are subject to a $15 processing fee. Substitutions (someone else attending) or transfer of registration to another training date may be requested.

About our presenter: Kelly Peyton is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor, Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor™, and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP). Kelly has thousands of hours of training focused on working specifically with teenagers and children using some of the latest research and clinical data.

Some of her specialized training includes certification in play therapy, certification as a trauma specialist, training in Theraplay, complete EMDR training, Accelerated Resolution Therapy, Certification in DBT, and a brain-based approach called the Neurosequential Model of therapeutics. She is also a LENS Neurofeedback practitioner and trained in the Safe Sound Protocol for acoustic vagus nerve stimulation. Her years of experience working with children, teenagers, and adults allow her to provide services to the whole family.

She is the clinical director at Katy Counseling serving the greater Katy area and helping to train and equip the next generation of child, adolescent, and adult counselors.

Host or Publisher Florida Association for Play Therapy