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Popping in to share my latest workshop, coming up June 8:
Do you want to learn new play therapy interventions, have fun with your fellow play therapists, and get a package of mystery swag in your mailbox to play with? Come join me for Stickers in Play Therapy! I LOVE stickers. My inner child loves them, as little me thought they were the most incredible thing to collect. I have a huge collection myself, and so when I was thinking about new things to do in play therapy with the kids I see, I thought to myself, “Hmm, stickers are so cool! What could I do with stickers?” This workshop will be informative, experiential, and FUN for your inner child! You’ll get a package of beautiful stickers in the mail from me prior to the workshop so that you can play along with me. Come hang out with me and my sticker collection Saturday, June 8th, from 11am-1pm Pacific time. Here’s the link: https://events.humanitix.com/stickers-in-play-therapy-a-playful-integration-workshop
Hi SPTers!
I wanted to post and share about an offering that I am considering doing this summer, to see if anyone would be interested in it. I am developing an approach to working with parents, especially parents who may be hard to engage or “resistant.” I have a 4 week group that I run on working with parents, and I’d love to have a group like this just for SPT Certified folks. It is 4 1 hour sessions in 4 weeks, and I would most likely run it in July or August. I usually run it Monday evenings from 6-7pm PST. I do a sliding scale for all my offerings and the range for this is $200-500, you decide what you can pay and that’s your registration fee – no documentation of income or anything like that is required. For folks who are BIPOC, working with populations who are marginalized or underserved, working in community mental health or similar settings, or working in areas where the cost of living is significantly different than my area (Pacific Northwest, United States), you can reach out to me for a further reduced fee if that’s something that would facilitate your being a part of the group. Let me know if you’re interested so I can get an idea of whether or not this might work. 🙂
Much love to all of you, always!
Heather FDhi mel!
i’m in – in whatever way works for us. at the very least i’m here to learn from the way i see you owning your own magic, and here to support you in whatever offerings you create. <3
feel free to email if you want! we need you.
heatherI just wanted to share with everyone that I’m working on a book… that has its roots in my original Make SPT Your Own certification presentation! I have an outline… sort of! I’m really excited about it and I’m so grateful to have deepened this work through the years and I’m so thrilled to continue to bring it to life – it’s my favorite thing that I get to do or teach about. Related to that, I’ll be running my group on Working with Hard to Engage Parents in October, and I would love to have SPTers in the group! You can reach out to me for a special SPTers-only discount. There are 5 spots total, and the group will be Mondays from 10/2 through 10/23, 6-7pm Pacific time. Email me at playfulintegration@gmail.com if you would like to join us – it would mean the world to me. Much love!
in reply to: General Topics for Discussion #170316Ooh I love this question Andrea!
Here are some of the ones that I notice myself making:“My brain is trying to pay attention to 2 things at once”
“My body feels not quite right” (really useful for kiddos with alexithymia or other issues where they can’t quite name the feeling/sensation)
“My chest feels tight, I think it wants to stretch”
“It’s like something heavy is pressing down on me”
“You’re right there next to me but it feels like you’re far away”
“I can’t feel you there” (I often use this one in 1:1s with hypoaroused parents to bring awareness to that sensation that the child may be feeling)
“It feels good to sit next to you”Hi everyone! I wanted to let you all know that I’m offering my consultation group on Working with Difficult to Engage Parents in July. The group is part introduction to my approach to working with parents, and partially a space for you to bring your questions and emotions and stress and celebration around the intricacies of working with parents. I started creating this approach (without knowing it!) during my SPT Certification, and I’ve continued to develop it more and more since then, so I’m going on 4 years of work on this – it is really, really meaningful work to me and I’m so passionate about it. I bring an SPT perspective into working with parents on an incredibly deep level and getting them looped in and engaged in therapy with their children in such a way that grows and heals their relationship with their child, and I LOVE it and I love talking about it and sharing it with other therapists – especially SPT therapists because you all GET IT. I have 5 spots in this group and 2 have already been claimed, so there are 3 more available if any of you would like to join us (I already have one SPTer on board!) in July. The group runs Mondays in July and the dates are 7/10, 7/17, 7/24, and 7/31. Time is from 5-6pm, Pacific time. I work on a sliding scale, you decide what fee is in alignment for you. For this group my sliding scale is $200-450 for all four sessions. I also offer further reduction in rate for folks who are working with underserved or underprivileged populations, in parts of the country or the world with a high poverty rate, in community mental health, or who are BIPOC. Please reach out to me if you would like to negotiate a lower rate, or if you have any other questions for me about the group. You can reach me at: playfulintegration@gmail.com.
in reply to: WELCOME! Please Say Hello and Introduce Yourself #170228So much love, Mel. <3
in reply to: WELCOME! Please Say Hello and Introduce Yourself #170227Andrea is amazing! Andrea, I’m so glad that you’re here.
in reply to: WELCOME! Please Say Hello and Introduce Yourself #170226Hi everyone! I’m Heather FD (pronouns: she/her/hers) and I was certified in 2019. I have been deep in the process of finding out I have to move, looking for a house to buy (!!), having an offer accepted (!!), and getting ready to move. WOW, things change fast. I live in Portland, Oregon, and work my agency job as a therapist and clinical supervisor just over the river in Vancouver, Washington. My time in the SPT Certification program quite actually informed on everything else that I’ve done in my career since then. I have a consultation practice called Playful Integration and I teach workshops and do individual and group consultation from an SPT perspective and I LOVE IT – doing consultation pretty much barely even feels like “work” to me, because my nerdy neurodivergent brain LOVES getting to talk about my special interests to people who want to hear me talk about them! haha. My primary area of specialty is making strong connections with parents and looping them into play therapy in a radical and deep way for the maximum amount of transformation in the parent-child relationship, and teaching other therapists my approach for how to do this. I’ve been working on this approach since 2019 – when it was my presentation topic for the SPT certification retreat! I just finished creating an outline for what may turn out to be a book on it, we’ll see what happens with that. I am also a proud cat mom of a little guy named Choo-Choo who is sleeping next to me right now (as usual.) I’m married to my awesome wife and have a sweet boyfriend who some of you may have seen me post about during the Advanced SPT Retreat last year, since I did the Demartini Method on some of my old attachment stuff that was getting in the way of that relationship. We made it through! One more way that SPT Certification has affected my life.Yesterday we went to the Holi Festival at Topaz Farm on Sauvie Island, and played in the sun and threw beautiful natural powder dyes at each other and danced and it was such a playful beautiful time. More about me: I have 2 best friends, and one of them is a therapist who works with me at my agency job so we have lunch together and see each other almost every day (highly recommend this if you can make it happen.) The other one is a fellow neuroscience nerd and we email, text, and call each other to talk about journal articles and our theories about how humans work and SPT and polyvagal theory and so much more – it’s the best. My favorite band is the Mountain Goats. I have 9 tattoos: 5 are music related, 2 are life event related, 1 is a portrait of my little baby kitty who passed in 2016, and 1 is my own remembrance of a certain child I worked with who changed the way I understood therapy, and life, and everything. So glad to be here – sending much love and SPT hugs to all of you!
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