What happens when therapy steps outside the office and enters a young person’s world?
See how play therapist and counselor educator Clayton Norman adapts the principles of Adlerian Play Therapy to meet adolescents where they are—both emotionally and physically—using skateboarding as a powerful example. Grounded in the Four Crucial Cs—Connection, Capability, Courage, and Counting—Norman demonstrates how therapists can utilize young clients’ passions, interests, and communities as entry points for connection, growth, and meaningful therapeutic work that extends beyond the therapy room.
Through demonstrations and discussions of his innovative approach, you’ll learn how foundational therapeutic skills such as tracking, encouragement, reflective responding, and self-disclosure can be integrated into unconventional activity-based settings. Norman also addresses ethical considerations, parent collaboration, safety planning, and ways clinicians can adapt these concepts to other interests and subcultures that are meaningful to children and adolescents.
This compelling video offers a practical framework for meeting young people in the spaces where they already experience belonging, competence, and connection—creating opportunities for deeper engagement, authentic relationships, and lasting growth.
