Protect Your Clients. Protect Your License. Strengthen Your Play Therapy Practice.
Working ethically with children and families is complex. Many clinicians struggle with:
Feeling unsure how to balance confidentiality with parent involvement
Confusion about Texas licensing rules vs. APT Best Practices
Anxiety about documentation and whether notes meet ethical standards
Uncertainty about handling:
Dual relationships
Touch in the playroom
Telehealth with child clients
Custody conflicts and consent issues
Worrying: “Am I doing this right?” when ethical dilemmas arise
Fear of complaints, audits, or license risk due to unclear procedures
This training gives you clarity, confidence, and concrete tools for ethical play therapy practice.
3 Hours Contact (In person) or Non-Contact (via Streaming)
Here are the learning objectives for our training:
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
Identify ethical requirements for providing play therapy under Texas licensing rules and Association for Play Therapy (APT) Best Practices
Understand and apply ethical decision-making models specific to play therapy scenarios
Differentiate between state regulations and APT Best Practices and know how to integrate both into daily practice
Apply ethical reasoning to real play therapy case examples, including complex family systems
Strengthen documentation practices using play-therapy-specific guidelines
Navigate key ethical topics, including:
Consent and assent with minors
Confidentiality and parent communication
Collaboration with schools and other professionals
Dual relationships and boundaries
Therapeutic and non-therapeutic touch
Telehealth and technology in play therapy
Cultural responsiveness and humility
Develop a clear process for handling future ethical questions with confidence and professionalism
Our live in-person event will be held on the campus of Covenant Church, 4949 Caroline Street, in Houston's museum district. If you can't be with us in person, we will offer live streaming for non-contact credit.
Online: You will need a computer and a reliable internet connection. We regret we cannot refund course fees due to connectivity or other technological issues on the participant’s side.
In person: We love to see your faces at our seminars! If you’re in Houston and want to attend live, please let us know, and we will make every effort to accommodate your being with us.
This course will count for 3 continuing education hours. Learn Play Therapy is APT Approved Provider number 15-241. For those unable to attend in person, we will offer a live stream of the event, for non-contact credit.
This course offers contact training hours for the live version and non-contact for the online.
Mental health professionals who work with children and who have some experience.
Keep an eye out for a recorded version of this webinar! Sign up for all the latest updates so you'll know when it's live.
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 pm.
What to know
We look forward to having everyone who has registered join us for their scheduled seminars. Should difficulties occur, the following policies will apply to all seminars (whether online or face-to-face):
● If you cancel at least 7 days before a scheduled training, your registration fee is refundable, less a $25 administration fee.
● We are unable to issue refunds or credit for cancellations received fewer than 7 days before a scheduled training.
● If you do not attend or miss a training for any reason, we will not be able to issue any refund or credit. You may send another attendee in your place; they must have your receipt and/or a written authorization from you to use your spot in person or you must provide your online course access authorization to them. Learn Play Therapy cannot provide this information to them for you.
● Attendees will receive a certificate of attendance showing the number and type of credit hours earned, subject to completing a certificate of evaluation and proof of any additional study requirements for non-contact continuing education credit.
● No partial CE credit is available. Attendees must be present the entire duration of the training.
● Your registration fees cover seminar fees only. All other costs are the responsibility of the registrant.
● Learn Play Therapy reserves the right to cancel or change a class at any time, including but not limited to, lack of participation, classroom, equipment or trainer availability.
● Notification will be provided within 7 days of the class, whenever possible.
● Learn Play Therapy is not liable for any direct, or indirect, consequential or special damages that may be incurred due to a cancellation of a scheduled class, including, but not limited to, lost opportunities, revenues, or other scheduled activities. The customer or student's sole remedy shall be the refund of prepaid course fees.
We regret that we cannot make exceptions to these policies. If you have any questions, please contact us at info@learnplaytherapy.com.