Tele-Play Therapy: Techniques to Help Kids Increase Trust & Safety, Unlock Emotions, Ignite Imagination and Boost Resilience

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Tammi Van Hollander, LCSW, RPT-S™, RST-C/T Related seminars and products

Main Line Play Therapy

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Tammi Van Hollander, LCSW, RPT-S™, RST-C/T, is a licensed clinical social worker, Registered Play Therapist Supervisor, and Registered Sand Therapist Consultant/Trainer with over 25 years of experience working with children, families, and individuals. She earned her Master of Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania and is internationally recognized for her innovative contributions to play therapy. Tammi is the author of Casey’s Greatness Wings and The Bibliotherapy Toolbox: 100+ Creative and Playful Story-Based Interventions to Help Kids Create Safety, Overcome Challenges, and Build Resiliency. She is also the creator of Greatness Sticks, a tool designed to foster resilience and self-esteem in children. A leader in the field, Tammi played a pivotal role in co-teaching the first-ever Sandtray therapy class in China, helping introduce this transformative modality to the country. She is founding board member of the World Association for Sand Therapy Professionals (WASTP), an organization dedicated to upholding the integrity of sand therapy through research, training, ethical standards, and global community building. Tammi is a sought-after international speaker and delivered her first TEDx Talk in October 2023, titled Stories in the Sand: Healing Trauma, Anxiety, and Grief.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Tammi Van Hollander is the owner of Main Line Therapy, LLC. and has employment relationships with the Expressive Arts Therapies and the Mid-Atlantic Play Therapy Institute. She receives royalties as a published author. Tammi Van Hollander receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Tammi Van Hollander is a member of the Association for Play Therapy and the National Association for Social Workers. She is a board member of the World Association for Sand Therapy Professionals and a program committee chair for the Specialists of Schools.

Objectives

1. Compose ways to explain telehealth to parents and how to prepare for play therapy sessions.
2. Determine how the therapeutic powers of play attribute to effectiveness of play therapy interventions.
3. Design ways play therapy techniques, such as hide and seek, can be used to form healthy attachments with the family in a tele-play therapy setting.
4. Develop the skills needed to teach parents and caregivers how to play with their child and how to make it a part of their daily play therapy routine.
5. Demonstrate the three stands of the Nurtured Heart Approach® and the power of resetting for clinicians and clients.
6. Apply bibliotherapy and storytelling to offer a safe psychological distance from problems and to how it can be used as a teaching tool to explain current events.

Outline

Grounding Self Reflection Exercise

The Therapist and Parent Relationship: Building Alliance

• Parent coaching and support
• Intro to Nurtured Heart Approach®
  • How to implement with treatment team
  • Greatness interventions to use with clients and families

Intake for Telehealth – Family and Child Assessment

• Explaining Teleheath to parents
• Pros and cons of tele-play therapy
• Four-part Intake process
• Demonstration and experiential of family intake session
• Family play assessments: Group activity

Play Therapy for Healthy Attachments, Attunement and Regulation

• Neuroscience of attachment
• Attachment-based family interventions
• Play-based interventions to help children regulate mind and bodies

Helping Kids Creatively Navigate Current Events

• Bibliotherapy: Suggested books to use therapeutically
• Story-telling, music, and videos as a tool to teach current events
• Helping parents and therapists when children ask hard questions

Creative Tele-Play Therapy Interventions -Therapeutic powers of play

• Sensory play
• Mindfulness play therapy
• Theraplay
• Nature-based play therapy
• CBT play therapy
• Greatness activities
• A toolbox full of resources for play-based virtual activities

Final Activity

• Self-care mindmap

Benefits/Challenges/Scope of Practice

Target Audience

• Play Therapists
• School Psychologists
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Educators
• Occupational Therapists
• Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Speech-Language Pathologists
• Psychologists

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