The Online Introduction to Synergetic Play Therapy launches you on a personal journey towards discovering what showing up in the playroom truly means. It explores what is happening in the play therapy process, how change occurs, and ultimately what it takes to help children heal at profound levels. It invites you to be you! Curious what this class […]

Synergetic Play Therapy will take you on a journey to deeply understand yourself. With an emphasis on therapist authenticity, SPT is designed to help therapists birth their authentic selves so that they can help their child clients do the same.  SPT recognizes that therapist authenticity and attunement in the playroom is integral to the healing of the child. This […]

Join us for the Colorado Association for Play Therapy’s 25th Annual Conference. On February 22, Lisa will be hosting the workshop: What is Behind the Magic? How Play Therapy Really Works. You know that play therapy works, but do you really know how it works and what is happening in children’s minds and biology leading […]

Have you completed Basic EMDR training? Then come experience it with an SPT-twist! In this workshop, therapists will have a one of kind experience exploring the basic components of play therapy from a neurobiology perspective as they get introduced to Synergetic Play Therapy and learn how it applies to the EMDR process with children.  Through […]

Aggression in the Playroom – a Synergetic Approach for Working With Trauma and Intensity in Play Therapy Are your play therapy sessions filled with swords fights, battles, babies dying, handcuffs, you dying, explosions, or other highly intense play? Are you often set up to watch or be a part of play that leaves you feeling […]

This 2-day workshop for clinicians launches you on a personal journey towards discovering what showing up in the playroom truly means. It explores what is happening in the play therapy process, how change occurs, and ultimately what it takes to help children heal at profound levels. Therapists will spend two days exploring the components of therapy with children […]

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We are pleased to announce the First Annual Certified Synergetic Play Therapist Retreat! Here’s what you need to know: Who: Anyone certified in Synergetic Play Therapy What: A four-day topic-focused retreat (from Thursday night thru Sunday at noon) Where: Oregon City, Oregon When: May 16, 2019 – May 19, 2019 This is not a play therapy retreat! This is a retreat […]

July 27th – August 2nd, 2019 (day off in middle) The Six-Day Synergetic Play Therapy Intensive allows you to jump in and really experience the magic of Synergetic Play Therapy! We hold these intensives regularly throughout the year, limiting this program to four people in order to permit extensive skill practice with individualized coaching and […]

Pilina in the Playroom:  Neurobiology and Attachment in Play Therapy is a 5- Day Play Therapy Retreat held on the peaceful North Shores on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. At a relaxed island pace, the theories of attachment and neurobiology come together as Lisa Dion, LPS, RPTS and Clair Mellenthin, LCSW, RPTS present on how to develop connection […]