Tennessee Association for Play Therapy

We at TNAPT want to wish everyone well during this time. We are all in an unprecedented time with having to change the way of providing play therapy- most of which is currently over a screen with telehealth. As daunting as those changes have been, we fully believe in your power, as well as the power of play, to continue connecting with children and families and providing comfort and healing. As Glinda, the Good Witch from Wizard of Oz, so aptly said: "You've always had the power dear, you just had to learn it for yourself."

To assist, we will be sharing helpful posts on our Facebook page to help from resources to inspirations and activities. We are also now doing a weekly T42 on Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. central/11:30 a.m. eastern. This is a play off of "tea for two" and stands for TNAPT for Tele-Connection and Tele-Support." Each week we send out a Zoom invite to all current TNAPT members to join us. After the first two weeks, we also started having special surprise guests each week! The first two weeks of guest appearances had Eliana Gil and then Pam Dyson. We have some other great guests lined up! Connection is so important during this time, and we want to have this time each week to provide that connection and support. So join us!

Fraud Alert! If you receive an email that appears Jamie Lynn Langley is soliciting funds for TNAPT due to COVID-19, please ignore! This is a scam! Notify Jamie immediately if you receive such an email.

We also want to share our good news that TNAPT has received the Gold Branch award for the third year in a row! Thank you to all the great work by a fantastic TNAPT board and membership!

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                                Save the date!
                 Our TNAPT Summer Conference

              Friday, Aug. 21, 2020
            Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce
                             Murfreesboro, TN
                                    7.0 CEs

                             Pre-Conference:
                    Thrs afternoon, Aug 20, 2020
                                     3.0 CEs

More information TBA on our training/conference page in June. We will be keeping up with COVID-19 concerns and recommendations and follow accordingly.

Due to COVID-19 we will not be holding an in-person Spring Quarterly Networking and Training event. Our T42's will serve as our networking for now. All of our regularly-held in-person trainings, such as the Getting Started trainings below, are currently on hold. We can offer the Getting Started in Play Therapy in an on-line format if needed. Once there is a go ahead from the CDC to hold smaller group events, we will announce future dates for these trainings in-person. We did go ahead and schedule our summer conference to get reserved space held for Aug 21 and 21. We are currently working with our planned presenter but will wait on announcing until later in case plans change due to COVID-19.

We are also looking into on-line training options if we aren't able to gather safely in small groups.



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If you are new to play therapy, TNAPT offers a 6.0 continuing education foundational training to get you started! "Getting Started in Play Therapy" is offered on a recurring basis as often as needed and can also be brought to on-site as well. Please go to the "New to Play Therapy" page for more info. We soon hope to be expanding this training by offering across the state by several of our board members. Foundational training is a necessary component if you are working towards your RPT/RPT-S/SB- RPT, so if you missed that step along the way, this is one way to obtain that training. Next date: TBA

We are also continuing our "Getting Started in Sandtray in Play Therapy." This training has been much requested by members and we are glad to offer it as the second part of our Getting Started series of trainings. Next date is TBA. When we offer this training as a co-sponsorship or branch outreach, this same training is called Sandtray Basics in Individual, Family and Play Therapy. We can bring this to area agencies or practices upon request.

Contact Jamie Langley at jamielynnlangley@gmail.com for more information for any of these trainings.

Need play therapy supervision? Go to our RPT-S page and you will see over 30 current RPT-S providers of supervision in Tennessee. Please go to www.a4pt for an updated list of new RPT-S in our state and all over!

                        Continuing Education...
TNAPT is an APT-approved provider for Play Therapy training! This means that every training sponsored by us counts towards those needed play therapy hours. We go through a renewal process with APT every three years- the most recent was June 2017!


                            Questions?

   For more info about TNAPT, including our upcoming conference:
  Contact: Jamie Langley, LCSW, RPT-S
                                                 President, TNAPT
e-contact info: tna4pt@gmail.com    or
                                                    jamielynnlangley@gmail.com

The Tennessee Association for Play Therapy (TNAPT) was formed in 1993 as a branch of the Association for Play Therapy. Our goal then and now remains the same: to promote play therapy by providing information, networking and workshops. It is our hope that this website can provide updated information to assist this goal.

Play Therapy is the systematic use of a theoretical model to establish an interpersonal process wherein trained play therapists use the therapeutic powers of play to help clients prevent or resolve psychosocial difficulties and achieve optimal growth and development. (Association for Play Therapy)

Why play? Play is a child's natural form of communication as they express themselves more fully with their play.