Fall Continuing Education 2025
Play Therapy Techniques in Supervision October 24, 2025
🎨 Supervision That Sparks Insight, Creativity, and Confidence
If you are a supervisor working with play therapists, you know that traditional talk-based supervision doesn't always capture the depth and nuance of their clinical work. Sometimes, supervision feels flat or repetitive. Other times, supervisees struggle to connect the dots between the child’s play and the therapeutic process or feel overwhelmed navigating parent dynamics.
This workshop is your space to reimagine supervision as creative, embodied, and deeply effective.
Incorporating expressive arts and play-based techniques in supervision doesn’t just make the process more engaging, it supports supervisees in client conceptualization, emotional integration, and confidence when working with complex family systems.
🌟 Why This Workshop Is Needed
Play therapy supervision is unique. Your supervisees are translating sand trays, role-plays, and symbols into clinical meaning. They are often holding big emotions, navigating unclear family boundaries, and trying to find their voice when talking with parents.
You can help them do that better, not just with case notes, but with crayons, metaphor, and movement.
This workshop invites you to:
- Use creative supervision to enhance clinical thinking and case conceptualization
- Support supervisees in processing emotional transfer and stuck points
- Empower supervisees to engage parents with clarity and professionalism, while holding appropriate boundaries
- Restore a sense of vitality and joy to your own supervision process
🧰 What You’ll Experience
- Interactive supervision exercises using art, sand tray metaphor, or embodied movement
- Case-based discussion focused on how to link play themes to treatment goals
- Frameworks to help supervisees feel more prepared and empowered when involving parents
- Tools you can use right away to shift stuck or overly analytical supervision into something dynamic and relational
📚 Grounded in Research
- Expressive arts in supervision promote deeper insight, creative problem-solving, and connection to clinical theory.
- Supervisees benefit from modeling approaches that mirror their work with children, enhancing integration and transfer to practice.
- Structured support in managing parent engagement builds confidence, reduces role confusion, and protects the therapeutic alliance.
🌈 Supervision That Mirrors the Heart of Play Therapy
Join us on October 24, 2025, and bring new energy, insight, and connection to your supervision work.
Infuse your sessions with play and purpose. Help your supervisees grow into confident, competent, and creative clinicians.
Workshop Details
3 Continuing Education hours (Both for Licensure and RPT)
Zoom- Live Online Experiential Workshop
Workshop Limited to 40 Participants
- $84 for teachers and non-profit employees (Use Coupon Code: EDU-CE)
- $99 General Registration
- APT Approved Provider: 19-596
- 3 continuing education NON-CONTACT hours for A4PT
Learning Objectives
Play therapy supervision requires its own unique blend of creativity, reflection, and structure. This workshop invites play therapy supervisors to deepen their consultation work using expressive arts, metaphor, and embodied reflection. We’ll explore how to empower play therapists in their work with parents, navigate the emotional transfer that can arise in child-focused therapy, and use creative methods to process stuck points and strengthen clinical insight.
- Identify three unique supervision needs of clinicians who practice play therapy.
- Demonstrate at least three expressive arts or play-based techniques that can be used in supervision to support reflection and integration.
- Describe how to support supervisees in coordinating care and engaging parents while maintaining clinical boundaries.
Qualifications to register for this program
- Registrants of this program must be qualified mental health professionals or students of a graduate mental health program.
- Must be a board approved supervisor.
Program Presenter
As a Registered Play Therapy Supervisor, Board Approved Supervisor, and group practice owner, Antoinette brings a wealth of clinical and supervisory experience to this training. She specializes in supporting clinicians who use expressive and play-based modalities, and is passionate about helping supervisors integrate creativity, clarity, and confidence into their work. Her approach blends developmental insight with practical tools to strengthen both the supervisory relationship and the clinical outcomes it supports.
Antoinette Martinez, M.Ed. is a bilingual (Spanish) Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor (Texas License #71350) who has experience working with children, teens, and adults. She is a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor through the Association for Play Therapy, a Certified EMDR therapist and consultant through EMDRIA, and a Certified Perinatal Mental Health Therapist through Postpartum Support International. Antoinette Martinez has been integrating EMDR with Play Therapy since 2013.
Cancellation & Refund Policy
- No refunds after the start of the program.
- Cancellation received at least 14 days prior to a scheduled training will be refunded minus a $25.00 administrative fee.
- Cancellation received less than 14 days prior to a scheduled training will receive no refund but may be used for credit towards a future training of equal or lesser value.
- No refund provided for no-shows or missed training.
- You may transfer your registration to another attendee for no fee, so long as that person meets the qualifications to attend this program.
- Attendance of full program is required.
- All programs are subject to sufficient registration.
- Should Nourish Play Therapy LLC need to cancel this program, we will make every attempt to notify paid registrants in a timely manner. All paid registrants will receive a full refund if a program is canceled.
- Nourish Play Therapy LLC is only responsible for the registration costs of training. Any additional costs are the responsibility of the registrant.
- No exceptions will be made to these policies.
- Please submit your request via email to info@nourishplaytherapy.com to cancel or transfer your registration to another attendee. Please write "Program Cancel ( or Transfer)" in the subject line of the email.
Important Details
ADA Accommodations: The program site is ADA compliant. Please contact Antoinette Martinez at info@nourishplaytherapy.com if special accommodations are required. Please write "Program Accommodation" in the subject line of the email.
Customer Service: We are happy to respond to any concerns or questions you may have. Please contact Antoinette Martinez at info@nourishplaytherapy.com. Please write "Program Service" in the subject line of the email.
Grievance Policy: Nourish Play Therapy LLC is fully committed to complying with all legal and ethical responsibilities to be non-discriminatory in promotional activities, program content, and in the treatment of attendees. While we go to great lengths to assure fair treatment for all and attempt to anticipate problems, we recognize that complaints will arise. When problems do present themselves, we will attempt to alleviate complaints as quickly as possible. Complaints relative to a speaker, contents of instructional materials being presented, an individual educational style being utilized, or facilities where training is held should be addressed with Antoinette Martinez, who will attempt to resolve the matter as expeditiously as possible. Please contact Antoinette Martinez at info@nourishplaytherapy.com. Please write "Program Grievance" in the subject line of the email.
Disclosures: Antoinette Martinez is the owner and operator of Nourish Play Therapy LLC. Neither she nor Nourish Play Therapy LLC are receiving commercial support or sponsorships from outside sources for this program. There are no known conflicts of interest with this programming.
Audio/Video Disclosure: This training program is not being audio or video recorded.
Provider Responsibility: Nourish Play Therapy maintains responsibility for this program and its contents in accordance with APT and EMDRIA requirements.