Welcome to our Play Therapy (RPT) Training Program

 APT Approved # 19-579

West Houston Counseling Center will focus on  play therapy trainings to provide participants with seminal theories and skills as part of the RPT requirements.  Come join us for these informative, fun, and interactive trainings appropriate for beginner, intermediate, and advanced learners.  

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• “Inside Out: Exploring Parts Work through CBT and Play Therapy”  January 23, 2026 9-2 pm 5 CE’s

  This training explores how to integrate parts work with CBT play therapy to help clients understand emotions, thoughts, and behaviors through a lens of protective parts rather than pathology. Participants will learn how common CBT concepts—such as identifying thoughts, regulating emotions, and changing behaviors—can be reframed as the actions of protective parts that developed to keep the client safe. By using play-based, directive, and hands-on interventions, clinicians will practice helping clients externalize these parts, build curiosity instead of resistance, and move toward integration and acceptance. This approach is well suited for therapists seeking practical, experiential tools that allow clients, especially children and adolescents, to engage actively in treatment while developing insight, flexibility, and self-compassion.

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• Changing the Story: Using CBT Play Therapy to Build Secure Attachment in Children” February 2026
• CBT Play Therapy Meets the Body: Somatic and Polyvagal Approaches for Child Emotional Regulation” March 2026

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