Child Therapy

Child Therapy

This developmentally informed approach helps children express emotions, build coping skills, and make sense of their experiences through play, creativity, and relationship. Get resources to help you foster your child clients’ emotional regulation, resilience, and a greater sense of safety and connection.

Child Therapy: Tools, Toys and Techniques

Simply learning the theories of child development and therapy does not make us better or even more effective child therapists. Watch and learn from a talented trio of child clinicians as they demonstrate 10 playful, creative and interactive techniques for connecting with children and helping them cope with sadness, anger, anxiety and trauma.

Learn from the field’s leading voices

Watch experts like Robert Jason Grant, Sam Steen, Violet Oaklander, Monica McGoldrick, and others demonstrate their approaches and share clinical wisdom on Child Therapy.

See real child-centered therapy in action

Featuring clinical demonstrations and sessions with real clients from children to preteens to teens as they face race, sexuality, depression, ADHD, violence, trauma, abuse, neglect, grief, and more.

Explore a wide range of approaches

Watch as experts work with children in therapy using various approaches including: neurodiversity-affirming play therapy, play therapy, solution-focused therapy, person-centered, family play genograms, group counseling, Gestalt therapy, cognitive-behavioral child therapy, Adlerian play therapy, narrative therapy, and more.

Witness a variety of populations within child therapy

Featuring clinical demonstrations and sessions with real clients, you’ll see how seasoned practitioners work with children, pre-teens, families, children with disabilities, and parents. 

Get CE that does more than just satisfy requirements

Discover continuing education that satisfies your curiosity, inspires your clinical practice, shapes your therapeutic presence, and fosters your professional growth.

Need teaching or training resources for Child Therapy?

From small group practices to nationwide behavioral health systems to ivy league universities, we offer multi-user solutions tailored to suit your needs.

Spotlight

Child therapy videos and courses

Neurodiversity-Affirming Play Therapy with Children and Teens
  • Course

Neurodiversity-Affirming Play Therapy with Children and Teens

Reality Therapy with Children
  • Video

Reality Therapy with Children

Adlerian Play Therapy
  • Video

Adlerian Play Therapy

Cognitive-Behavioral Child Therapy
  • Video

Cognitive-Behavioral Child Therapy

Guiding Pre-Teens in Career Exploration: A Creative Arts Approach
  • Video

Guiding Pre-Teens in Career Exploration: A Creative Arts Approach

Individual Child Therapy: Art & Sandtray
  • Video

Individual Child Therapy: Art & Sandtray

Our Child Therapy experts include…

Learn from leading experts in the field by watching them work with real clients and share their clinical wisdom.

Violet Oaklander

PhD

Sam Steen

PhD

Virginia Satir

David and Jill Scharff

Jon Carlson

PsyD, EdD