Parents are a powerful force to be reckoned with and inviting them to be a part of the play therapy process is a critical component to creating lasting change in the child’s world. In this course, you will learn Attachment-Centered Play Therapy interventions with the model’s founder, Clair Mellenthin, as well as explore your own roadblocks in a hands-on, experiential format. Get ready to learn the how’s, why’s, when’s, and what-to-do’s of parent-child play therapy utilizing Attachment-Centered Play Therapy.

Inviting Parents to Play Using Attachment-Centered Play Therapy Learning Objectives:

  • Evaluate how to introduce and maintain parent involvement in play therapy
  • Learn Attachment-Centered Play Therapy techniques that parents and children can do together inside and outside of the play therapy session
  • Increase clinical understanding of attachment theory and different attachment styles that impact parent’s ability to engage and be involved in their child’s treatment

CE Credit Hours: 1 CE Credit Hour, NBCC Content Areas: Counseling Theory/Practice and the Counseling Relationship, Human Growth and Development

Synergetic Play Therapy Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7450. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Synergetic Play Therapy Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Synergetic Play Therapy Institute is also an Approved Provider for the following associations:
*Australian Play Therapists Association (APTA) Approved Provider
*British Columbia Play Therapy Association (BCPTA) Approved Provider 23-01

Continuing education credit hours may be awarded to graduate-level counselors or students enrolled in a graduate-level mental health program. If you do not qualify for continuing education credit hours and would like to receive a certificate of completion for this course please contact the Institute directly.


Your participation in this course has directly contributed to the Synergetic Play Therapy Foundation‘s mission of making play therapy trainings accessible and affordable to clinicians worldwide, as well as to fund research initiatives in Synergetic Play Therapy! All proceeds from this course have been donated to the Synergetic Play Therapy Foundation to support this mission!


Each lesson of this course must be completed in order to receive a CE Certificate. Please click on the blue letters below, “Synergetic Play Therapy Institute – Course Agreements”, to begin. Once you have completed this first lesson, you will gain access to the next lesson to view the course video.

Please remember that your access to this course and its content will expire 365 days from the date of purchase.