Play Therapy Workshop: Body Centered Play Therapy with Traumatized Clients
Friday, April 4, 2025
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
South Central Service Cooperative
Workshop Overview:
In this interactive in-person workshop, we will explore ways to incorporate body-centered techniques, such as yoga, movement, body scans, parasympathetic nervous system soothing, and sensorimotor drawing, with traumatized clients in play therapy. Using a combination of Adlerian conceptualization and strategies and body-centered Gestalt therapy techniques, we will explore how trauma affects clients across the lifespan and how you can integrate body-centered intervention strategies, and expressive arts techniques into your play therapy practice.
Objectives:
- Describe current research on the effects of trauma on people’s brains, bodies, thoughts, emotions, and behavior.
- Explain why enhancing play therapy clients’ sensorimotor awareness can be important with traumatized clients.
- Identify 5 techniques to enhance play therapy clients' sensorimotor awareness.
- Describe 2 Adlerian play therapy conceptualization tools for understanding how trauma has had an impact on clients’ lifestyles.
- Explain the difference between the parasympathetic nervous system and the sympathetic nervous system.
- List 2 symptoms of trauma in preschool aged children, school-aged children and adolescents.
Cost: $149.00
- Includes breakfast and lunch
Location: South Central Service Cooperative (SCSC)
Accommodations: Comfort Inn & Suites, 507-388-3800Those wishing to book must call the hotel directly to get a discounted rate of $99 for the night of April 3. Please use code: South Central Mental Health Conference
6 CE hours (Contact) (Includes 2 hours on Play Therapy Special Topics, 1 hour on Play Therapy Seminal or Historically Significant Theories, and 3 hours on Play Therapy Skills and Methods)
- APT Approved Provider
- NBCC
- MN Board of Social Work
- MN Board of Behavioral Health
- MN Board of Marriage and Family Therapy (pending)
Presenter Information:
Nikole Pauli, LMHC, NCC, RPT-S, C-AdPT
Nikki was trained by the Dr. Terry Kottman, creator of Adlerian Play Therapy. In addition to teaching for LEAPT (League of Extraordinary Adlerian Play Therapists), Nikki runs a successful private practice in her college turned home town of Cedar Falls, IA. She is passionate about walking alongside adults, children, families, and couples. In addition to counseling, Nikki serves as a high school youth director at Orchard Hill Church. As a former collegiate and professional track and field athlete, Nikki now uses that passion to coach high school hurdlers and teach classes at Ninja U, a ninja obstacle gym she co-owns with her husband, Jacob.
Outside of serving those in her community, Nikki enjoys spending time with her husband and their four children. You can find them enjoying the outdoors as often as possible or cuddled up reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Series of Unfortunate Events.
Nikki finds joy in time spent laughing with her people, dirtying her hands gardening, getting in a good workout, and enjoying good food.
APT Approved Provider 99-055
League of Extraordinary Adlerian Play Therapists (LEAPT) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7402. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. League of Extraordinary Adlerian Play Therapists (LEAPT) is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Registration Questions: Email workforce@mnsu.edu or call 507-389-1094
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