Black Play Therapy Foundation

Black Play Therapy Foundation Approved Provider 18-532

Providing culturally responsive mental health care and increasing cultural awareness, empathy, competency, and responsiveness in professionals providing Mental Health treatment in the Black Community.

All 2026 Speakers Confirmed…Will you join us in July for the 2026 Black Play Therapy Symposium in Springfield VA?This ye...
01/12/2026

All 2026 Speakers Confirmed…

Will you join us in July for the 2026 Black Play Therapy Symposium in Springfield VA?

This year’s focus is on Cognitive Biases that criminalize and institutionalize Black Children.

Will you join us in July for the 2026 Black Play Therapy Symposium in Springfield VA?This year’s focus is on Cognitive B...
01/12/2026

Will you join us in July for the 2026 Black Play Therapy Symposium in Springfield VA?

This year’s focus is on Cognitive Biases that criminalize and institutionalize Black Children.



Unicorn Life Play Therapy

01/11/2026

All 2026 Speakers Confirmed…

Will you join us in July for the 2026 Black Play Therapy Symposium in Springfield VA?

This year’s focus is on Cognitive Biases that criminalize and institutionalize Black Children.



Unicorn Life Play Therapy

Name it. Recognize it. Interrupt it.Picture two 6-year-old girls having meltdowns in a store.Girl A (white):“Oh honey, a...
01/08/2026

Name it. Recognize it. Interrupt it.

Picture two 6-year-old girls having meltdowns in a store.

Girl A (white):
“Oh honey, are you tired? Let’s get you a snack.”
Seen as needing comfort and care

Girl B (Black):
“You know better than this! Stop right now!”
Seen as needing discipline and control.

Same age. Same behavior. But the White child gets empathy, the Black child gets anger.

Name it. Recognize it. Interrupt it.Picture two 6-year-old girls having meltdowns in a store.Girl A (white):"Oh honey, a...
01/08/2026

Name it. Recognize it. Interrupt it.

Picture two 6-year-old girls having meltdowns in a store.

Girl A (white):
"Oh honey, are you tired? Let's get you a snack."
Seen as needing comfort and care

Girl B (Black):
"You know better than this! Stop right now!"
Seen as needing discipline and control.

Same age. Same behavior. But the White child gets empathy, the Black child gets anger.


Unicorn Life Play Therapy

01/05/2026

Name the Bias…

Same behavior.
Different child.
Different consequence.

Unconscious bias leads to the criminalization of Black children

Two 7-year-old boys running in the hallway.

White child: “Boys will be boys! Slow down, buddy."
Black child: Stop right now! You know better. Office. Now."

This happens every day in schools across America.

Name it. Recognize it. Interrupt it.


Unicorn Life Play Therapy

Protecting Black Children from Cognitive Biases that rob them of their childhood 💜🖤
01/04/2026

Protecting Black Children from Cognitive Biases that rob them of their childhood 💜🖤

Protecting Black Children from Cognitive Biases that rob them of their childhood 💜🖤Unicorn Life Play Therapy
01/04/2026

Protecting Black Children from Cognitive Biases that rob them of their childhood 💜🖤
Unicorn Life Play Therapy

01/03/2026

From preschool suspensions to juvenile detention, cognitive biases operate like invisible machinery, stealing childhoods and limiting futures.

In July 2026, we're gathering mental health, professionals, educators, parents, advocates, and community leaders to:

- Name the biases driving disparities.
- Learn trauma-informed interventions.
- Disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline.
- Protect Black childhood.

The 2026 Black Play Therapy® Symposium is confirmed for July 2026! After careful consideration, I’ve decided to focus my...
01/01/2026

The 2026 Black Play Therapy® Symposium is confirmed for July 2026! After careful consideration, I’ve decided to focus my energy on what works rather than creating something new.

The 2026 Black Play Therapy® Symposium theme is the Criminalization and Institutionalization of Black Children: Understanding and Disrupting Cognitive Biases. The 2026 symposium will feature an interactive panel discussion, and individual sessions with play therapy and other expressive therapy approaches. I already have four speakers confirmed and awaiting a response from one more.

Thank you for ROCKIN’ with me and for granting me the grace to heal. I look forward to reconnecting with many of you and connecting with new folk as I plan for an even stronger 2026 Black Play Therapy® Symposium.

With gratitude,

Althea

Sometimes I can get on a one track mind. I’ve spent the last six or so years using LEGO (before LEGO it was sand tray) a...
09/28/2025

Sometimes I can get on a one track mind. I’ve spent the last six or so years using LEGO (before LEGO it was sand tray) as a 3D healing medium that I forgot how much I enjoyed using art-based mediums for healing. I’ve been working through grief and loss over the past few months. A therapist recommended an art therapy retreat, so this week I participated in a 5-day online expressive healing retreat that ended on Friday. Here are some of my pieces. Man when I tell you how I had to survive in this visualization to get to safety in a cave🤔😳😩. I got in the cave doing a military crawl to not encounter the monsters 🤦🏽‍♀️🤣🤣🤣. I LOVED all of hearing the stories behind the art. Healing is definitely necessary for the healer too💜🖤

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