Black Play Therapy

Black Play Therapy APT Approved Provider 18-532 & ACE #2031.

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

04/28/2026

To everyone who contacted APT asking about continuing education approval for the 2026 Black Play Therapy® Symposium, thank you for your questions!

As a Level I APT Approved Provider, I'm not required to submit individual training events for approval, they just need to meet play therapy continuing education standards. However, your questions mattered, so I chose to submit the 2026 Black Play Therapy® Symposium for review.

I'm pleased to share that it has been approved by APT and is now listed on their training directory: https://www.a4pt.org/general/custom.asp?page=TrainingDirectory

What this means for you:

12 Contact (in person) Play Therapy CEs available.

Sponsored by Unicorn Life Training Institute (APT Approved Provider 18-532).

Fully meets APT continuing education standards.

Your questions drove this decision, and I'm grateful you spoke up.

Date: July 10-11, 2026 | Springfield, VA

Secure your spot because I can't wait to see you there!

Register: https://blackplaytherapy.com/2026-symposium-agenda/

04/26/2026

Get registered for the 2026 Black Play Therapy Symposium?

Be apart of the Black Play Therapy Experience 💜🖤

The school-to-prison pipeline operates, not through one big decision, but through a thousand small biased moments, each one documented, each one building a narrative, each one stealing a piece of childhood.

This Play Therapy Symposium is where CULTURE leads LEARNING and you’re not just an attendee, you are part of the EXPERIENCE 💜🖤

You'll leave ready to use interventions immediately.

July 10-11 | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Black Play Therapy® Symposium | Springfield, VA

Register: www.blackplaytherapy.com

Are you registered for the 2026 Black Play Therapy Symposium?The school-to-prison pipeline operates, not through one big...
04/25/2026

Are you registered for the 2026 Black Play Therapy Symposium?

The school-to-prison pipeline operates, not through one big decision, but through a thousand small biased moments, each one documented, each one building a narrative, each one stealing a piece of childhood.

This Play Therapy Symposium is where CULTURE leads LEARNING and you’re not just an attendee, you are part of the EXPERIENCE 💜🖤

You’ll leave ready to use interventions immediately.

July 10-11 | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Black Play Therapy® Symposium | Springfield, VA

Link in bio or Register: www.blackplaytherapy.com

   

Are you registered for the 2026 Black Play Therapy Symposium?The school-to-prison pipeline operates, not through one big...
04/25/2026

Are you registered for the 2026 Black Play Therapy Symposium?

The school-to-prison pipeline operates, not through one big decision, but through a thousand small biased moments, each one documented, each one building a narrative, each one stealing a piece of childhood.

This Play Therapy Symposium is where CULTURE leads LEARNING and you’re not just an attendee, you are part of the EXPERIENCE 💜🖤

You'll leave ready to use interventions immediately.

July 10-11 | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Black Play Therapy® Symposium | Springfield, VA

Register: www.blackplaytherapy.com

🖤 Happy National Counseling Month! 🖤Counselors walk into the hardest rooms, carry the heaviest stories, and still show u...
04/13/2026

🖤 Happy National Counseling Month! 🖤

Counselors walk into the hardest rooms, carry the heaviest stories, and still show up the next day with open hearts and open doors. This April, the Black Play Therapy® Foundation is celebrating two licensed professional counselors who embody exactly that, and who will be joining us on the stage at the 2026 Black Play Therapy® Symposium! 💜

July 10–11, 2026 | Springfield, VA

💜 Sean Myers, M.Ed., LPC Sean is a certified school counselor and licensed professional counselor serving students in Harris County, Georgia. From coordinating 504 plans to behavioral management using the therapeutic powers of play. Sean works every day to interrupt the forces that push Black children out of schools and into systems. As a Play Therapist, he is deepening his use of play-based approaches as a tool for healing and resistance.

💜 Audrice Johnson, M.Ed., LPC, LSATP Audrice is a licensed professional counselor and substance abuse treatment provider with 25 years of experience across mental health, social services, and criminal justice. Currently providing crisis intervention and mental health services to incarcerated individuals at a Regional Jail, Audrice brings a striking and essential perspective on what happens when systems fail Black children, and what healing and reclamation can look like on the other side. She too is a Play Therapist integrating expressive modalities into her work as an act of restoration.

Two counselors. Two critical vantage points. One shared mission, to reclaim Black childhood. 🖤 💜

Tag a counselor in your life who deserves to be celebrated this month! 👇🏾

Registration at for the 2026 Black Play Therapy® Symposium!

www.blackplaytherapy.com

04/12/2026

How it started 7 years ago: 23 speakers and over 100 participants💜🖤

Unicorn Life Play Therapy

2026 Black Play Therapy Symposium Afternoon Session :Let me tell you about Marcus.Marcus is 14. He’s in juvenile detenti...
04/07/2026

2026 Black Play Therapy Symposium

Afternoon Session :

Let me tell you about Marcus.

Marcus is 14. He’s in juvenile detention for assault. His file says ‘violent offender.’ The court order says ‘mandatory therapy.’

You’re the play therapist. You have 30 minutes per session in a room with cameras. Marcus walks in with his arms crossed. ‘I don’t need therapy. This is stupid.’

What do you do?

The afternoon session of Stolen Childhoods teaches you exactly how to reach Marcus.

You’ll use LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® to examine YOUR OWN bias first because you can’t help Marcus if you’re carrying assumptions about ‘violent offenders.’ You’ll build your biggest challenge with bias, make it visible, and create an action plan to address it.

Then you’ll learn play-based interventions you can use Monday morning.

Plus documentation practices that protect justice-involved children instead of adding to the files that follow them forever.

Marcus deserves play therapy just as much as the child in your private practice office who chose to be there.

By the time he reached detention, he’d been failed by every system. You might be his last chance to experience what play therapy is supposed to be: a space where he’s seen, valued, and given tools to heal.

Will you be ready?

Day 2 Afternoon | July 11, 2026 | 1:00 PM - 4:15 PM Black Play Therapy® Symposium | Springfield, VA

Register: www.blackplaytherapy.com

    Black Play Therapy Foundation Unicorn Life Play Therapy

The school-to-prison pipeline operates, not through one big decision, but through a thousand small biased moments, each ...
04/05/2026

The school-to-prison pipeline operates, not through one big decision, but through a thousand small biased moments, each one documented, each one building a narrative, each one stealing a piece of childhood.

And mental health professionals? We’re positioned right at the intervention point. We receive these referrals. We make decisions about them. We either interrupt the bias or we perpetuate it.

The morning session of the Stolen Childhoods workshop teaches you HOW to interrupt—with interventions you can use immediately in your practice.

This is for professionals in schools, private practice, agencies, community settings, anywhere you encounter children impacted by systemic bias.

You’ll leave ready to use these interventions with clients already on your schedule.

Day 2 Morning Session | July 11 | 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Black Play Therapy® Symposium | Springfield, VA

Register: www.blackplaytherapy.com

   

I’ve always wondered what would be next for me as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Registered Play Therapist-Superv...
04/01/2026

I’ve always wondered what would be next for me as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor.

The NFL is now requiring teams to have a mental health professional on staff🫣

Oh the things I could process with LEGO and Sand Tray💜🖤🙌🏽

I’ve always wondered what would be next for me as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Registered Play Therapist-Superv...
04/01/2026

I’ve always wondered what would be next for me as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor.

The NFL is now requiring teams to have a mental health professional on staff🫣

Oh the things I could process with LEGO and Sand Tray💜🖤🙌🏽

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