Live Trainings
Sara and Missy’s live trainings and seminars are a great way to get face-to-face with their expertise, as well as a room of like-minded professionals who can also inform your practice. Live trainings are offered online and in person. Subscribe to be added to our alerts list.
Foundation in Somatic Experiential Play Therapy
This introductory webinar offers a clear, practical overview of Somatic Experiential Play Therapy (SEPT). Participants will learn how somatic awareness, symbolic play, and relational attunement work together to support regulation, emotional processing, and therapeutic change. This training is ideal for therapists who are new to SEPT or who want a stronger framework for integrating somatic principles into their play therapy practice.
Somatic Experiential Play Therapy Intensive Training
Step into a transformational week-long intensive training where theory comes alive in practice. This in-person experience introduces the Somatic Experiential Play Therapy (SEPT) model while immersing you in hands-on learning with live child sessions. Together, we’ll explore the foundations of how change happens, the power of symbolism and metaphor in play-based healing, and the vital link between trauma and incomplete fight-or-flight responses.
Through bug-in-the-ear supervision, real-time guidance, and the use of video playback with feedback, you’ll develop a deeper ability to recognize and respond to freeze, collapse, and dissociation in the playroom. This intensive is designed not only to give you a strong grounding in the SEPT model but also to sharpen your skills through direct practice, reflective learning, and personalized supervision. By the end of the week, you’ll leave with both the confidence and the practical tools to integrate these concepts into your work with children and families.
Somatic Experiential Play Therapy Mini-Intensive
Step into a transformational mini-intensive training where theory comes alive in practice. This in-person experience introduces the Somatic Experiential Play Therapy (SEPT) model while immersing you in hands-on learning with live child sessions. Together, we’ll explore the foundations of how change happens, the power of symbolism and metaphor in play-based healing, and the vital link between trauma and incomplete fight-or-flight responses.
Through bug-in-the-ear supervision, real-time guidance, and the use of video playback with feedback, you’ll develop a deeper ability to recognize and respond to freeze, collapse, and dissociation in the playroom. This intensive is designed not only to give you a strong grounding in the SEPT model but also to sharpen your skills through direct practice, reflective learning, and personalized supervision. By the end of the training, you’ll leave with both the confidence and the practical tools to integrate these concepts into your work with children and families.
Somatic Experiential Play Therapy Intensive Training
Step into a transformational week-long intensive training where theory comes alive in practice. This in-person experience introduces the Somatic Experiential Play Therapy (SEPT) model while immersing you in hands-on learning with live child sessions. Together, we’ll explore the foundations of how change happens, the power of symbolism and metaphor in play-based healing, and the vital link between trauma and incomplete fight-or-flight responses.
Through bug-in-the-ear supervision, real-time guidance, and the use of video playback with feedback, you’ll develop a deeper ability to recognize and respond to freeze, collapse, and dissociation in the playroom. This intensive is designed not only to give you a strong grounding in the SEPT model but also to sharpen your skills through direct practice, reflective learning, and personalized supervision. By the end of the week, you’ll leave with both the confidence and the practical tools to integrate these concepts into your work with children and families.
Somatic Experiential Play Therapy Intensive Training
Join Sara in Plano, Texas, for this hands on training!
Step into a transformational week-long intensive training where theory comes alive in practice. This in-person experience introduces the Somatic Experiential Play Therapy (SEPT) model while immersing you in hands-on learning with live child sessions. Together, we’ll explore the foundations of how change happens, the power of symbolism and metaphor in play-based healing, and the vital link between trauma and incomplete fight-or-flight responses.
Through bug-in-the-ear supervision, real-time guidance, and the use of video playback with feedback, you’ll develop a deeper ability to recognize and respond to freeze, collapse, and dissociation in the playroom. This intensive is designed not only to give you a strong grounding in the SEPT model but also to sharpen your skills through direct practice, reflective learning, and personalized supervision. By the end of the week, you’ll leave with both the confidence and the practical tools to integrate these concepts into your work with children and families.
Somatic Experiential Play Therapy Intensive Training
Join Sara in Killeen, Texas, for this hands on training!
Step into a transformational week-long intensive training where theory comes alive in practice. This in-person experience introduces the Somatic Experiential Play Therapy (SEPT) model while immersing you in hands-on learning with live child sessions. Together, we’ll explore the foundations of how change happens, the power of symbolism and metaphor in play-based healing, and the vital link between trauma and incomplete fight-or-flight responses.
Through bug-in-the-ear supervision, real-time guidance, and the use of video playback with feedback, you’ll develop a deeper ability to recognize and respond to freeze, collapse, and dissociation in the playroom. This intensive is designed not only to give you a strong grounding in the SEPT model but also to sharpen your skills through direct practice, reflective learning, and personalized supervision. By the end of the week, you’ll leave with both the confidence and the practical tools to integrate these concepts into your work with children and families.
Lunch and Learn: What is Somatic Experiential Play Therapy?
This training offers 1 CE hour! Come spend your lunch hour learning about how to use child-led therapy that supports the development of metaphorical play themes, experiential play, and tracking and supporting the nervous system of a child in the playroom!
Somatic Experiential Play Therapy Training Center, Approved Provider #16 -465, maintains responsibility for this program and its content
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Somatic Experiential Play Therapy Intensive Training
Step into a transformational week-long intensive training where theory comes alive in practice. This in-person experience introduces the Somatic Experiential Play Therapy (SEPT) model while immersing you in hands-on learning with live child sessions. Together, we’ll explore the foundations of how change happens, the power of symbolism and metaphor in play-based healing, and the vital link between trauma and incomplete fight-or-flight responses.
Through bug-in-the-ear supervision, real-time guidance, and the use of video playback with feedback, you’ll develop a deeper ability to recognize and respond to freeze, collapse, and dissociation in the playroom. This intensive is designed not only to give you a strong grounding in the SEPT model but also to sharpen your skills through direct practice, reflective learning, and personalized supervision. By the end of the week, you’ll leave with both the confidence and the practical tools to integrate these concepts into your work with children and families.
Play Therapy and Somatic Regulation: Effective Strategies for Dysregulated Kids and Their Adults
A focused, experiential webinar introducing somatic and play‑based strategies for supporting dysregulated children and strengthening co‑regulation with caregivers. Learn how fight, flight, and freeze responses show up in and outside the playroom, how to interpret these states through a nervous‑system lens, and how to apply simple, engaging interventions that promote safety, connection, and regulation.
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This training is a week long hands-on training in which you will learn about SEPT and experience hands-on learning in real time play therapy sessions. Each therapist will engage in at least 6 live play therapy session with a child while the trainers are watching live and guiding responses through bug in the ear technology. The live sessions will be followed up by an additional hour in which we dive deeper into play based themes and metaphors, somatic tracking, and self of the therapist issues.
We also have opportunities for those who would prefer to not work with a child directly during the training and observe the 28 sessions others are participating in throughout the week.
This training focuses on developing SEPT skills including the ability to understand metaphor and the power of play for children as they process their pain and trauma. Skills in being able to identify fight/flight/freeze responses in a child’s body during play will also be addressed and implemented. Subscribe to email alerts.
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This training is for those that have already trained in SEPT but want to hone their skills to go deeper into the play with the clients. The underlying tenets of SEPT play therapy will be expanded upon in this advanced training. Participants will deepen their abilities in understanding therapeutic metaphor, recognizing nervous system dysregulation in various forms along with implementing specific responses through play.
This advanced training also provides lots of opportunity to explore the self of the therapist issues holding you back in the playroom. We seek to create a safe environment to analyze where you, the therapist, get triggered or overwhelmed and support you in moving through whatever these issues may be. Lecture, video clips, handouts, and real time feedback during actual play therapy sessions will be used to facilitate the concepts of this advanced seminar.
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Not seeing what you’re looking for, or interested in scheduling something for your own organization? You can hire Sara and Missy. Their most requested trainings include:
1-2 Day Somatic Experiential Play Therapy Seminars
Somatic Awareness in Play Therapy
Tracking Fight, Flight Freeze in the Playroom
Polyvagal Theory and the SEPT Model