Telehealth Meets Play: Treating Children and Adolescents in a Virtual Setting

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Sophia Ansari, LPCC, RPT™, is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, Registered Play Therapist,™ international speaker, author, educator, co-host of the podcast Hero Nation, and owner of the Let’s Play Therapy Institute. She is a leader in Positive Education who works with schools and organizations around the world to build safe, inclusive, and strengths-based education settings. Sophia is known for her work in incorporating pop culture and video games in therapy through her numerous publications, Comic-Con panels, media appearances, and play therapy workshops.

Sophia earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Wright State University and her Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Cincinnati.

For more information on the Let’s Play Therapy Institute, visit: www.letsplaytherapy.org.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Sophia Ansari is the co-founder and owner of Let's Play Therapy Institute and has an employment relationship with Fawn Friends. She is a Positive Education Trainer and a Caped Crusaders SEL Curriculum Creator. Sophia Ansari is a published author and receives royalties. Sophia Ansari receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Sophia Ansari has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Objectives

1. Determine the benefits of providing play therapy on a digital platform.  
2. Apply directive and non-directive play therapy interventions to use in telehealth therapy sessions with children and adolescents. 
3. Develop interventions for challenging clinical scenarios in telehealth, including resistance and crisis intervention.  

Outline

Optimizing Your Telehealth Sessions from the Start 

Setting up your space (and why it matters) 

Preparation for virtual sessions 

• Games that require little-to-no material 
• Planning ahead for connectivity disruption 
• Boundaries and child-centered limit setting 

How to structure a teletherapy session 

Adjusting expectations and outcome

Creative Teleplay Interventions for your Virtual Toolbox 

Demonstrations and resources, including: 

• Movement and regulation 
• Creative and expressive arts 
• Interactive choice boards, like PPT 
• Sandtray  
• Games, LEGO®, and other play techniques 
• Child Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT) 
• Mindfulness techniques 
• And more!

Troubleshooting Common Scenarios 

What to do when:  Resistance, hyperactivity, limit testing, crisis intervention, and more 

Teleplay with non-verbal children 

Clinician self-care (screen time is exhausting!) 

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Psychologists(For CE Credit)
• Psychotherapists
• Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Case Managers
• Nurses

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