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.
Introduction to Jungian Play Therapy
This three-hour training introduces play therapists to the foundations of Jungian play therapy, with emphasis on how children use play, symbols, fantasy, story, drawings, sand, dreams, mandalas, and imagination to express inner experience. Grounded in Jung’s analytical psychology, participants will explore key concepts including the psyche, unconscious, archetypes, the Self, shadow, persona, and individuation, and consider how these ideas inform play therapy practice. This training will focus on symbolic play as a meaningful expression of unconscious and emotionally significant material, while...Read more emphasizing the play therapist’s role as witness, container, and symbolically attuned presence rather than as an overly directive interpreter of the child’s play. Participants will leave with a foundational understanding of how Jungian play therapy supports children’s movement toward integration, self-understanding, and psychological wholeness through the healing language of play.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
1. Identify at least five foundational concepts from Jung’s analytical psychology, including psyche, unconscious, archetypes, Self, shadow, persona, and individuation, and describe how these concepts inform Jungian play therapy practice.
2. Describe at least three ways children may use play, drawings, sand, story, dreams, mandalas, fantasy, or symbolic toys to express unconscious or emotionally significant material in Jungian play therapy.
3. Demonstrate two developmentally appropriate play therapy responses that reflect the therapist’s role as witness, container, and symbolically attuned presence rather than as an overly directive interpreter of the child’s play. Less...
Learning Objectives
- By the end of this training, participants will be able to: 1. Identify at least five foundational concepts from Jung’s analytical psychology, including psyche, unconscious, archetypes, Self, shadow, persona, and individuation, and describe how these concepts inform Jungian play therapy practice.
- By the end of this training, participants will be able to: 2. Describe at least three ways children may use play, drawings, sand, story, dreams, mandalas, fantasy, or symbolic toys to express unconscious or emotionally significant material in Jungian play therapy.
- By the end of the training, participants will be able to: 3. Demonstrate two developmentally appropriate play therapy responses that reflect the therapist’s role as witness, container, and symbolically attuned presence rather than as an overly directive interpreter of the child’s play.
Saturday, September 19, 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
01:00 PM CDT - 04:00 PM CDT
$90.00
EARN 3 CE Credit Hours
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About the speaker
Robyn D Reyna, LPC-S, RPT-S, RST
CEO of Calming Communities
CE Information - Earn 3 CE Credit Hours
CE Process Info
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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