Professionals Archives - Jen Taylor Play Therapy Continuing Education https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/category/professionals/ Where Education Meets Practice Thu, 24 Apr 2025 23:32:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/cropped-2021-Logo-Circle.png Professionals Archives - Jen Taylor Play Therapy Continuing Education https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/category/professionals/ 32 32 How to get 15 hours of FREE Play Therapy Training https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/15-hours-free-play-therapy-training/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=15-hours-free-play-therapy-training https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/15-hours-free-play-therapy-training/#respond Sun, 10 Mar 2024 21:13:11 +0000 https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/?p=6770 In this article, Jen Taylor will guide you the basics about play therapy and offer you 15 hours of FREE play therapy training (recorded, online, accessible 24/7 with no time limits) so that you can see if this is something worth pursuing further.

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]]> https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/15-hours-free-play-therapy-training/feed/ 0 Putting words to a life-changing experience in Kenya: The Play Therapy Great Migration https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/putting-words-to-a-life-changing-experience-kenya/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=putting-words-to-a-life-changing-experience-kenya https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/putting-words-to-a-life-changing-experience-kenya/#comments Sun, 21 Jan 2024 20:09:00 +0000 https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/?p=6764 It's been over five months since the play therapy experience of a lifetime: The Play Therapy Great Migration in Nairobi, Kenya. Many people have asked, "How was Kenya?" and my response is usually "life-changing." Other times, I might say, "we saw a lion eating a giraffe." It isn't that I am trying to be evasive or elusive. It's just that putting this experience into words that are as powerful as the experience itself feels impossible. And the task of writing something meaningful that would not risk jeopardizing the sacredness of that event or the privacy of the participants felt like a task beyond my ability. That is, until I got some help from a famous author.

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]]> https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/putting-words-to-a-life-changing-experience-kenya/feed/ 3 My Long Journey Towards EMDR Certification (and why that is Okay!) https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/my-long-journey-towards-emdr-certification/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-long-journey-towards-emdr-certification https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/my-long-journey-towards-emdr-certification/#respond Fri, 31 May 2019 00:11:58 +0000 https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/?p=5715 There is an informal joke among many of my therapist friends that we are “certification junkies.”  One of my most intelligent and esteemed colleagues often told me if there was a class that had a certification, she felt obligated to complete it all the way through.  To start it and not finish it, felt a […]

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]]> https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/my-long-journey-towards-emdr-certification/feed/ 0 Advice for Graduates https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/advice-for-graduates/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=advice-for-graduates https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/advice-for-graduates/#respond Fri, 24 May 2019 04:13:51 +0000 https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/?p=5712 Have you ever considered what a monumental task it is to give a graduation commencement address? How do you condense the wisdom of your experience over the past 10, 20, 30, 40+ years of your career into a 15 minute speech for people who are just getting started? I honestly cannot remember WHO gave the commencement address […]

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]]> https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/advice-for-graduates/feed/ 0 Celebrating Play Therapy During National Play Therapy Week 2019 https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/celebrating-play-therapy-during-national-play-therapy-week-2019/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=celebrating-play-therapy-during-national-play-therapy-week-2019 https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/celebrating-play-therapy-during-national-play-therapy-week-2019/#respond Tue, 05 Feb 2019 18:05:49 +0000 https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/?p=5603 While most of you were watching the Super Bowl, play therapists around the country were beginning their annual celebrations of National Play Therapy Week (February 3-9).    National Play Therapy Week always sneaks up on me.  I know about it and yet, I ALWAYS forget.  And many of my friends and colleagues have been planning great […]

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]]> https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/celebrating-play-therapy-during-national-play-therapy-week-2019/feed/ 0 Book Review: Aggression in Play Therapy by Lisa Dion https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/book-review-aggression-in-play-therapy-by-lisa-dion/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=book-review-aggression-in-play-therapy-by-lisa-dion https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/book-review-aggression-in-play-therapy-by-lisa-dion/#respond Thu, 24 Jan 2019 22:00:11 +0000 https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/?p=5596 Lisa Dion's new book Aggression in Play Therapy debuted at #1 in the Psychotherapy Charts (woohoo Lisa!) and for good reason.   I provide my honest, unpaid, and unbiased opinion about the book today.  Why I Put Off Reading This Book Authenticity is the name of the game when it comes to Lisa Dion.  So, I […]

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]]> https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/book-review-aggression-in-play-therapy-by-lisa-dion/feed/ 0 I attended the National APT Play Therapy Conference for the first time…this is what it was like for me https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/i-attended-the-national-apt-play-therapy-conference-for-the-first-time-this-is-what-it-was-like/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-attended-the-national-apt-play-therapy-conference-for-the-first-time-this-is-what-it-was-like https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/i-attended-the-national-apt-play-therapy-conference-for-the-first-time-this-is-what-it-was-like/#respond Thu, 11 Oct 2018 19:14:49 +0000 https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/?p=5451  My Love for the Annual Play Therapy Conference (in GIF's)I'm embarrassed to admit that I have been a Registered Play Therapist for almost ten years and have never been able to attend the biggest play therapy conference in the country...until 2018. This conference is hosted by the Association for Play Therapy, the place to start for […]

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]]> https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/i-attended-the-national-apt-play-therapy-conference-for-the-first-time-this-is-what-it-was-like/feed/ 0 So You Want to Be A Play Therapist? https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/becomeaplaytherapist/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=becomeaplaytherapist https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/becomeaplaytherapist/#respond Fri, 16 Feb 2018 07:37:19 +0000 https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/?p=5047 Let’s welcome my next guest blogger is Kamini Verma as she dives into becoming play therapist!

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]]> https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/becomeaplaytherapist/feed/ 0 The Empathetic Child https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/empathetic-child/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=empathetic-child https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/empathetic-child/#respond Sat, 27 Jan 2018 08:48:22 +0000 https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/?p=5003 Welcome guest blogger, Adrienne Jeffries! She brings to light the realities of nurturing the Empathetic Child!

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]]> https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/empathetic-child/feed/ 0 The Value of Unstructured Play https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/the-value-of-unstructured-play/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-value-of-unstructured-play https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/the-value-of-unstructured-play/#respond Fri, 12 Jan 2018 16:00:38 +0000 https://jentaylorplaytherapy.com/?p=4904 “Play.” That was the answer my three year old son gave when I asked the same question I ask every Friday afternoon.  The question is, “What do you want to do this weekend?” Now, sometimes, my children will say “go to the beach” or “go hiking.”   We are an extremely active family and are usually […]

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