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Growing Brains Through Play: Integrating Adlerian Play Therapy and Neuroscience for Clinical Decision Making

CE Hours 6

About this live event

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 experience 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.

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

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

Live event Instructor(s)

  • Robyn D Reyna, LPC-S, RPT-S, RST

    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.

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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Upon accessing the CE-Go "attendee dashboard", you will be able to:

  • Complete evaluation forms for the event
  • Download your continuing education certificate in a PDF format

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We are committed to providing ADA accommodations in compliance with the law. To ensure your needs are met, please inform us of any requirements when you register, ideally at least 30 days before the event. You can do so by emailing support@ce-go.com or calling 888-498-5578.

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If a grievance arises pertaining to continuing education activities or processes, please contact Tyler Gibson via confidential email to tyler@celearningsystems.com as soon as possible, so that the nature of the concern may be addressed in a timely fashion.

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Calming Communities Training Institute Grievance Policy


Calming Communities Training Institute is committed to providing high-quality continuing education in a professional, ethical, inclusive, and respectful learning environment.

All educational activities are conducted in accordance with applicable professional ethical standards, continuing education requirements, and relevant laws and regulations. Calming Communities Training Institute does not discriminate in its promotional activities, educational content, admission to programs, or treatment of participants on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnicity, culture, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, neurotype, socioeconomic status, or other protected status.

Calming Communities Training Institute recognizes that concerns or complaints may occasionally arise. Participants are encouraged to communicate concerns so that they can be addressed fairly, respectfully, and as promptly as possible. Raising a concern or filing a grievance will not result in retaliation or adversely affect a participant’s ability to participate in future educational activities.


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Robyn D. Reyna, Program Reviewer

Calming Communities Training Institute

business@calmingcommunities.com


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Participants will not be subjected to retaliation for raising a good-faith concern, submitting a grievance, requesting an accommodation, or participating in the grievance-review process.


Questions regarding this policy or the grievance process may be directed to business@calmingcommunities.com.

Growing Brains Through Play: Integrating Adlerian Play Therapy and Neuroscience for Clinical Decision Making
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  • CE Hours
    6
  • Type
    Hybrid Event
  • Location
    Calming Communities Counseling & Wellness (16225 PARK TEN PL, HOUSTON, TX 77084)
  • Date
    Sat Nov 7th, 2026
  • Time
    09:00am - 04:00pm CST

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