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Are you getting in your own way in your work with clients? Do you have certain clients who evoke strong feelings in you? Are there clients whose sessions you dread? Do you have clients who you care about too much? Many times, the factors that are preventing optimal client progress are not in the client, but in the therapist. In this workshop, we will co-create a safe space so that you can use art experiments, movement techniques, sand tray, music, and other experiential play therapy strategies to explore how you might be getting in your own way and how to move yourself forward so that you are not the roadblock to your client’s progress. Research has shown that the more insight you have into your own issues the more effective you are as a counselor, so let’s explore.
24 hours of CEUs in either Play Therapy or Supervision
COST
$300
Next Scheduled Dates
March 29-30,
 2012

 Location

 Cedar Falls, IA

Getting Out of Your Own Way:

Countertransference in Play Therapy and Child/Family Counseling

Learning Objectives–Participants will be able to:
 1. Define countertransference and explain how understanding their own issues can help them be more effective with their clients.
 2. Describe the factors that can mitigate any negative effects of countertransference.
 3. Recognize some of their own countertransference issues and describe how these issues might be interfering with the process of play therapy and counseling with their clients.
 4. Describe 5 strategies that can help play therapists and other counselors explore their own countertransference.  
 5.  Develop 3 strategies that can help them counter their own countertransference in cases where it is interfering with the process of play therapy and counseling with their clients.

Photos by Jacob 2011