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Psychology and Play Therapy Australia

Psychology and Play Therapy Australia delivers supervision, training and consultancy services Australia-wide and internationally.

Our clinical services are based in Hobart, Tasmania, and available to those in other states by mutual arrangement.

27/08/2025

There are only 3 spots left for the Child & Play Therapy Supervisor Training - Supervision of Supervision Program!

Will one of them be yours?

This is just a 90 minute commitment once every two months, where you’ll get the dedicated space to continue to develop yourself as a supervisor.

All sessions will be held on Thursdays, 11:00am–12:30pm (Hobart time, AEST/AEDT) on the following dates:
👉🏻 September 25, 2025 (AEST)
👉🏻 November 20, 2025 (AEDT)
👉🏻 February 5, 2026 (AEDT)
👉🏻 March 19, 2026, (AEDT)
👉🏻 May 7, 2026 (AEST)
👉🏻 June 18, 2026 (AEST)

Learn more and register here: https://psychologyandplay.mykajabi.com/offers/9woFYh7y/checkout

26/08/2025

🦋 NEW LIVE WORKSHOP 🦋

Register now for the workshop ‘Kids Talk Too: Verbal Counselling Skills for Child and Play Therapists’ on Saturday 18th October 2025.

If you’re a child therapist using play therapy or play-based approaches, you have no doubt resonated with Garry Landreth’s famously quoted phrase – “Toys are children’s words and play is their language”. It has likely been instilled in your training, and you hold firmly to this anchor in your practice.

But at what cost? What potential does the child miss out on if we don’t feel competent and confident to work with a child’s verbalisations in therapy?

Children communicate in many ways – through their play, behaviour, body, and patterns of relating. And of course….Kids talk too!

They have valuable insights into their own experiences they are capable of speaking about.
They strive to make meaning of their experiences and communicate this through narrative.
They seek understanding and ask questions.

If we don’t give children permission to talk in play therapy, we deny them these opportunities. And most alarmingly, we risk not communicating to the child an explicit message they can tell us if they are not, or do not feel safe, becoming unintentionally complicit in the secrecy that often characterises abuse and family violence.

Over the latter part of 2025 and throughout 2026, we will be running a series of workshops designed to equip child and play therapists with essential foundational verbal counselling skills across 4 evidence-based therapy modalities. Our goal is to support you to integrate developmentally appropriate verbal counselling techniques seamlessly with your play-based interventions so you can effectively respond to the child’s need for this when it arises in sessions.

This workshop (Workshop 1), will focus on general and Humanistic verbal counselling skills for children.

👉🏻 Saturday 18th October 2025
👉🏻 9:00am - 1:00pm AEDT
👉🏻 Held ONLINE, attend LIVE or via the recording afterwards

Learn more and register now: https://psychologyandplay.mykajabi.com/offers/c2d2kJkh/checkout

25/08/2025

🦋NEW PD OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE NOW 🦋

Thank you to those who completed our recent survey!

We’ve used that information to prioritise and to schedule the best days and times for our upcoming trainings.

We’re so excited to launch the new program - here they are now!

👉🏻 Kids Talk Too: Verbal Counselling Skills for Child and Play Therapists (18th October 2025)
👉🏻 Be My Co-Therapist™ Module 1: Parent Mental Health Vulnerabilities in Child and Play Therapy (13th November 2025)
👉🏻 Be My Co-Therapist™ Module 2: Clinical Skills for Working with Parents/Caregivers (15th & 16th January 2026)
👉🏻 Dyadic Play Therapy Program (Coming soon - keep an eye out!)
👉🏻 3 Day Sandplay and Clay Therapy Immersive (Coming soon - keep an eye out!)

Take a look at the details for each and register here: https://www.psychologyandplay.com.au/training

24/08/2025

When I deliver training, I’m not just providing strategies - I’m offering the theoretical anchor behind the answers you’re seeking.

This anchor is what holds us steady when we’re being tossed around by the storms of government policy, changing funding models, or parent expectations about what therapy should look like or deliver.

When we have clear theoretical frameworks, we have something to hold onto - something that keeps us grounded.

Theory helps us stay in this work for the long haul. It keeps us sustainable as child and play therapists, especially if we want to work in this field for 30, 40 years or more.

That’s why I’m so committed to sharing not just the ‘what to do’, but the why - so you can feel confident, stable, and anchored in your practice, no matter what comes your way.

23/08/2025

**WEEKEND WONDERING**

**THERAPIST REFLECTION PROMPT**

Perhaps you haven’t yet realised this…..

But being a child and play therapist means we sit with a lot of uncertainty.

We sit with uncertainty about what might be happening for a child in their internal world.

We sit with uncertainty about what they might be trying to communicate to us through their behaviour.

We sit with uncertainty about what they might be communicating to us through their play.

And we sit with uncertainty when we hold multiple possibilities about these things about the child.

While we do much hypothesising, anchored to the theoretical and practice frameworks that guide our practice, our role as child and/or play therapist requires us to develop our capacity to sit with uncertainty.

THERAPIST REFLECTION PROMPT
What helps you develop your capacity to sit with the uncertainty inherent in child and play therapy?

22/08/2025

**FRIDAY FUNNY**
Adult celebration cakes!

21/08/2025

One of the greatest lessons for the beginning play therapist is to “trust the process”....

To trust the child’s innate drive towards growth and self-actualisation.

To trust their use of play as their primary mechanism for development and self-expression.

And to trust in the therapeutic relationship that facilitates this process.

A challenge is holding steadfast to this understanding in an adult world where play is minimised and dismissed as trivial activity, and advocating for value of play in children’s development.

20/08/2025

**WEDNESDAY WISDOM**
**THERAPEUTIC CHANGE**
Therapeutic change is not just about the cessation of a problem.

Therapeutic change is in the “Now what?”

It’s in the.....What is the different the client now explores and moves into.

19/08/2025

Being a supervisor is a different skillset than being a therapist.

Our 9 month Supervision of Supervision Program creates room for your professional growth of supervision skills.

It’s your last chance to join, as we’re kicking off next month!

This program is suitable for child and play therapy Supervisors of all levels of experience. Obviously, it is particularly suitable for those in the early stage of their supervisory experience!

Learn more and register here: https://psychologyandplay.mykajabi.com/offers/9woFYh7y/checkout

18/08/2025

I’ve been delivering my 4 Day Play Therapy Supervisor Training program over the last couple of years. Over that time, I’ve had several participants who have already done a play therapy supervisor training, but they circle back to do my 4 day program as well.

When I ask why they’re doing a whole 4 day program again - when they already have the capacity! - they say: “Because I don’t feel confident”.

That’s a big reason I’ve created the 9 month Supervision of Supervision Program.

The whole idea is to create the most helpful forum for those who still need to increase their confidence. In this program, you’ll be within a group of supervisor peers, where we can collectively come together regularly to revisit topics, models, and to troubleshoot your challenges in your time as a supervisor.

It’s your last chance to join this round of the Supervision of Supervision Program! It’s just a 90 minute commitment once every two months, where you’ll get the dedicated space to continue to develop yourself as a supervisor.

All sessions will be held on Thursdays, 11:00am–12:30pm (Hobart time, AEST/AEDT) on the following dates:
👉🏻 September 25, 2025 (AEST)
👉🏻 November 20, 2025 (AEDT)
👉🏻 February 5, 2026 (AEDT)
👉🏻 March 19, 2026, (AEDT)
👉🏻 May 7, 2026 (AEST)
👉🏻 June 18, 2026 (AEST)

Learn more and register here: https://psychologyandplay.mykajabi.com/offers/9woFYh7y/checkout

17/08/2025

I love supervision, and that’s actually part of the reason why I offer training.

I know my supervision fee is higher than some others, and that’s because it’s the work I’m most passionate about: supporting therapists to develop their professional identity and strengthen the effectiveness of their very special work with children and families.

I offer individual supervision, group supervision, and organisational supervision, and I absolutely love it. But I’m also deeply aware that individual supervision can be financially challenging for many therapists.

That’s why I deliver so many trainings, masterclasses, and webinars!

These trainings aren’t random. They come from the themes, challenges, and questions I hear every week from this extensive professional community I’m privileged to be in contact with. Just like we assess a child’s needs in clinical work, I’m constantly tuning into the needs of the professional community here in Australia who work with children and play therapy.

A six-hour masterclass that costs $450 (or thereabouts) gives you access to ideas and support that would otherwise take multiple supervision sessions. I know people want to draw from my experience and clinical wisdom, and I want to share that! So if I can offer that in a way that’s more affordable and accessible, then that’s how I support my community.

Don’t forget that I have a huge range of live and recorded trainings on my website that you can access at any time: https://www.psychologyandplay.com.au/training

16/08/2025

**WEEKEND WONDERING**

**INDEPENDENCE VS INTERDEPENDENCE**

While supporting children and young people to become independent individuals is a key feature of development, do we also keep in mind the need for children and young people to also develop interdependence?

Interdependence is a feature of the human species, and necessary for our health and wellbeing.

If we push children and young people towards independence at the expense of balancing this with interdependence, what does this mean for their capacity to help-seek and receive support?

If we push children and young people towards independence at the expense of balancing this with interdependence, what does this mean for connection to others and to community?

THERAPIST REFLECTION PROMPT:
How do I support both independence and interdependence in the children I work with?

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Hobart, TAS

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Monday	8am - 4pm
Tuesday	8am - 4pm
Wednesday	8am - 4pm
Thursday	8am - 4pm
Friday	8am - 4pm

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+61361693104

Website

http://www.psychologyandplay.com.au/

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