In this fun and highly experiential workshop, you will learn practical play therapy intervention techniques for building a relationship, exploring clients’ lifestyles, helping clients gain insight, and facilitating them making changes in their behavior, thinking, and feelings. We will practice metaphor design and storytelling; art techniques; and dance, movement, and music processes you can use the week after the workshop in your play therapy sessions for assessing clients and facilitating movement in their therapeutic process.

After the workshop, participants will be able to...

Describe 2 play therapy techniques used to build a relationship with clients.
Describe 2 play therapy techniques used to explore clients’ lifestyles.
Describe 2 play therapy techniques used to help clients gain insight.
Describe 2 play therapy techniques to facilitate clients making changes in patterns of thinking, feeling, and/or behaving.
Describe 1 method for designing therapeutic stories in play therapy.
Explain 1 art technique for using in play therapy.
Describe 1 way they can use dance, movement, and/or music in play therapy.

Schedule:

8:30am - 11:30am: Presentation
11:30am - 12:30pm: Lunch on your own
12:30pm - 3:30pm: Presentation

MEET THE SPEAKER

Terry Kottman, Ph.D., RPT-S, LMHC

Terry Kottman developed Adlerian play therapy, an approach to working with children, families, and adults that combines the ideas and techniques of Individual Psychology and play therapy. She recently founded the League of Extraordinary Adlerian Play Therapists, a play therapy training center, and created a certification in Adlerian play therapy. Terry is a fun and engaging presenter and author who regularly teaches classes and writes about play therapy. She is co-author (with Kristin Meany-Walen) of Doing Play Therapy: From Building the Relationship to Facilitating Change and Partners in Play: An Adlerian Approach to Play Therapy, and the author of Play Therapy: Basics and Beyond and several other books. In 2014, she was granted a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Play Therapy; in 2017, she was given a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Iowa Association for Play Therapy; and in 2020, she received a third Lifetime Achievement Award from the North American Society for Adlerian Psychology. (She seems to be collecting them.) She has been married to her husband Rick for 50 years and has a delightful son, Jacob, of whom she is inordinately proud.

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Requests for refunds must be made via email to [email protected] and received on or before November 11, 2026. There is a $20 administrative fee for refunds. No refunds or cancellations will be accepted after the deadline.

Continuing Education Credits

This presentation is approved for 6.0 contact hours for the following CE types

· APT Approved Provider 07-195 (Association for Play Therapy)

· Self-Evaluation/Self-Report Programs (Social Work, Psychology, Etc.)

Please reference your particular licensure requirements to determine if the program will meet your profession's guidelines for continuing education credits. Play therapy credit will not be awarded to non-mental health professionals. Certificates of attendance will be provided for a record of CE's at no charge.

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Creative Interventions in Play Therapy

Terry Kottman, Ph.D., RPT-S, LMHC

December 11, 2026

8:30am CST - 3:30pm CST

6 CONTACT CE HOURS

(Play Therapy Skills and Methods)

at Mount Mercy University Graduate Center

1650 Matterhorn Dr NE, Cedar Rapids, IA 52402

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Terry Kottman, Ph.D., RPT-S, LMHC

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