Robyn Reyna is a Licensed Professional Counselor – Supervisor and a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor ™ in Houston, Texas. She is also certified in AutPlay® and is working on a certification in Synergetic Play Therapy as of 2024.
She is the founder of Calming Communities Counseling & Wellness, PLLC, an affirming family therapy agency focused on connecting parents, teachers, and kids with a deeper understanding of the neuroscience behind mental health to help our community raise confident, capable, and connected children.
Robyn has been providing play therapy for ten years and play therapy trainings for more than seven years, and has presented locally, nationally, and internationally. Robyn’s trainings focus on Adlerian play therapy, neuroaffirming play therapy, and neuroscience-based parenting strategies.
Finally, Robyn is a published author of several children’s books focused on child mental health and social navigation topics. She has also published in APT’s Play Today Magazine, several scientific journals, Dr. Grant’s Play Interventions for Neurodivergent Children and Adolescents and Liana Lowenstein’s Assessment and Treatment Activities for Children, Adolescents, and Families.
Growing Brains Through Play: Integrating Adlerian Play Therapy and Neuroscience for Clinical Decision Making
Adlerian Play Therapy helps play therapists look beneath children’s behavior to understand the beliefs, needs, and relational patterns that may be driving what happens in the playroom. Synergetic Play Therapy adds a nervous-system-informed perspective, helping therapists consider how experiences of safety, stress, connection, and dysregulation influence children’s play and behavior. This six-hour training brings these perspectives together to explore questions such as: What might this child be communicating through their play? What are they trying to protect? What helps this particular child e...Read morexperience safety, belonging, and significance?
Participants will learn practical ways to recognize themes in children’s play, explore lifestyle and private logic, understand the Crucial C’s and personality priorities through a nervous-system-informed lens, and distinguish between different states of activation and regulation. Through case examples and experiential activities, participants will practice moving from observing play → understanding what may be happening beneath the behavior → intentionally selecting play therapy interventions that support connection, regulation, encouragement, courage, and growth. This training is grounded primarily in Adlerian Play Therapy and incorporates concepts from Synergetic Play Therapy; it does not constitute training or certification in Synergetic Play Therapy. Less...
Learning Objectives
- 1. Describe how Adlerian play therapy and Synergetic play therapy provide complementary perspectives for understanding children’s behavior, relational patterns, and nervous-system responses.
- 2. Identify four ways the Crucial C’s—Connect, Capable, Count, and Courage—can inform play therapy conceptualization of children’s social-emotional needs, discouragement, belonging, and significance.
- 3. Explain how Adlerian personality priorities—Pleasing, Comfort, Superiority, and Control—may influence individualized perceptions of safety and discuss implications for play therapy assessment and intervention.
- 4. Analyze recurring themes in children’s play therapy to develop hypotheses regarding lifestyle, private logic, Crucial C’s, personality priorities, goals of misbehavior, and perceived safety or threat.
- 5. Select developmentally appropriate play therapy interventions that intentionally support regulation, encouragement, belonging, agency, courage, and healthier relational patterns.
- 6. Apply an integrated Adlerian and nervous-system-informed framework to play therapy case examples in order to develop individualized case conceptualizations, treatment goals, and intervention plans.
Learning Levels
- intermediate
Saturday, November 07, 2026
Hybrid Event - Register to attend
in-person or virtually!
in-person or virtually!
Calming Communities Counseling & Wellness
16225 PARK TEN PL, HOUSTON, TX, 77084
16225 PARK TEN PL, HOUSTON, TX, 77084
Live Interactive Webinar
09:00 AM CST - 04:00 PM CST
$180.00
EARN 6 CE Credit Hours
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About the speaker
Robyn D Reyna, LPC-S, RPT-S, RST
CEO of Calming Communities
Agenda
All times are in Central Standard time.
9:00am - NOON Presentation begins
12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch on your own
1:00pm - 4pm Presentation Continues
CE Information - Earn 6 CE Credit Hours
CE Process Info
In person attendance awards Contact Hours.
Live Webinar attendance awards Non-Contact Hours
APT Special Topics Credit
APT Approved Provider 22-677
Training is provided by a Texas LPC-S and counts for the minimum 50% approved provider requirement of the Texas Administrative Code.
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