Clinicians Assemble! Using Pop Culture In Play Therapy to Connect With Neurodivergent Clients
Presented by Linnea Sieh, LPC
In Play Therapy, the rapport between the client and clinician is one of the important parts of the therapy session, especially with neurodivergent clients. Using pop culture themes this workshop aims to give clinicians new techniques to build those connections.
Have you ever felt stuck with a client in session? Didn’t know what to talk about or how to build rapport? This presentation will cover evidence-based, non-traditional approaches to therapy using the client’s strengths and pop culture interests to build therapeutic rapport, improve client confidence, teach skills, and assist clinicians in increasing clinical understanding of neurodivergent clients.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:
- explain how play therapy can be helpful for neurodivergent clients.
- identify three play therapy techniques that include pop culture narratives.
- describe ethical documentation for play therapy sessions that include pop culture.
This training is approved by APT Approved Provider 99-050 for 3 Non-Contact CE hours. Trainings are not recorded.
Foundational Level | Play Therapy Skills and Methods, Play Therapy Special Topics
Please note that CEs are only for APT hours.
ABOUT OUR PRESENTER: Linnea Sieh is a Michigan LPC and NBCC Approved Clinical Supervisor who offers neurodiversity affirming, child centered play therapy methods in a private practice setting. She has also had experience in community mental health, community care based programs, and childcare settings. She first utilized pop culture narratives with resistant teens and has been nerding it out in therapy ever since. She holds an Autplay certification, as well as receiving additional training in Superhero Therapy and the Game to Grow program to incorporate therapeutic tabletop role play adventures into client therapy sessions. She is proud to be the Director of Children’s Services at Lillybrook Counseling Services in Troy, as well as managing her own therapeutic tabletop game program called Questing for Change which encourages therapeutic growth through play.
VIRTUAL: This will be a virtual workshop. Participants will be awarded APT NON-CONTACT CE after successful completion of a post test. Participants are requested to be present and visible throughout the presentation to facilitate engagement.
MIAPT is approved by the Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to Play Therapy. APT Approved Provider 99-050. MIAPT maintains responsibility for the program.
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