Live Webinar will be held March 31, 2026, 2pm – 3pm Mountain Time (Denver)
Registration Closes March 30, 2025, at 12pm Mountain Time (Denver)
Some children don’t cling. They don’t protest. They appear independent, self-contained, even unaffected. Yet beneath that independence often lives profound shame and a deep fear of rejection.
Children with avoidant or dismissive attachment patterns learned early that needing others was unsafe. In the playroom, this can show up as distance, compliance, control, or emotional flatness within the therapeutic relationship.
This one-hour course, drawing from the principles of Synergetic Play Therapy, will examine the neurobiological and relational foundations of avoidant attachment and explore how to work effectively with these children — not by forcing connection, but by creating the conditions for internal secure attachment to develop.
Because when we hold steady, children begin to discover that they can hold themselves.
There are two registration options for this course:
- To join us LIVE and online for this webinar, please select “Live Event” from the dropdown menu, below.
- If you are unable to attend the live webinar, select “Home Study” to receive access to a 7-day playback.
For course details including cost, learning objectives, and CE Credit Hours, keep scrolling!

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.