The Discerning Choice For Clinical Supervision and Children’s Counselling Training
Online Professional Training Events • Clinical Supervision • Therapy Services in Hobart
Integrate your knowledge and step into your therapist identity for a sustainable future in children’s psychology with our professional development workshops, clinical supervision, and consultancy options
At Psychology and Play Therapy Australia, we can support you with:
“The work with the kids is the easy bit! It’s working with the adults and systems arounds kids that’s exhausting! I don’t know how long I’ll be able to do this work.”
Sound familiar?
You’re not the only one thinking this way.
We hear it all the time from psychologists, counsellors, play therapists, social workers - in fact all mental health clinicians working with kids.Â
Let’s face it. When you choose to work with children, you’re not just working with one client.
You’re working with the child, the parents or carers, the school, and any other support services.
You’re acting as an advocate, helping others to get that glimpse into the child’s internal world that you’re so privileged to have. Trying to help them understand the need that drives the behaviours.
You also have to manage the disappointment of the adults when they realise you don’t have a magic wand.
And you’re often defending your therapeutic approach when it’s criticised or minimised because you dare use play in your interventions.
Is it any wonder you might be feeling full of self-doubt? Or overwhelmed? Or exhausted, dissatisfied, and isolated?
Before you know it, you’re lost in a cycle of grasping for the next PD workshop, searching for more tools and strategies that might somehow make things better.
But you’re not alone.
And it doesn’t have to be this way.
We’re at the forefront of integrating best practice psychological and play therapy approaches that are structured in a neurobiologically sensitive manner to meet the specific therapeutic needs of individual children.
This means we can give you the means to integrate child development and attachment theory with neurobiology and play therapy to provide the cornerstone of your practice with children.
And we weave in the latest research of the neuroscience of psychotherapy - the hidden keys that will help you truly unlock the art of the therapeutic process.
Acknowledgement of Country:
Psychology and Play Therapy Australia acknowledges, with deep respect, the Traditional Custodians of the country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their culture, and their elders past and present, and extend this respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today. We recognise a history of truth which acknowledges the impacts of colonisation on Aboriginal people resulting in the forcible removal from their lands. We stand for a future that profoundly respects and acknowledges Aboriginal perspectives, culture, language and history. We are deeply grateful for all that Aboriginal people have taught us, and continue to seek their teachings with openness and humility.Â
