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Janet A. Courtney, Ph.D., LCSW, RPT-S is Director of Developmental Play & Attachment Therapies of Palm Beach Gardens, a center established to offer services for Parents, Children, and Mental Health Practitioners in order to support and promote more conscious and connected relationships between parents, care-givers and children. Dr. Courtney also provides a variety of training opportunities in Play Therapy including a Certification in CARE Developmental Play Therapy (CDPT). For over 25 years Dr. Courtney, Ph.D., LCSW, RPT-S, has worked with children to heal emotional wounds and families in enhancing the parent-child relationship, utilizing a variety of creative experiential modalities including Developmental Play Therapy; Artistic Mediums, Family Play Therapy; Gestalt Therapy; Visualization/Imagery; and metaphorically through the incorporation of Earth Sciences. | |||||
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The underlying philosophy of Play Therapy is that clinicians work with children at their developmental level of communication and comfort—the level of play. Children naturally turn to play when they are sad, worried, angry, or confused. They “play-out” their feelings similar to the way an adult will “talk” out their feelings. As children begin to reveal their problems through play, the Play Therapist is then able to address the problems by offering solutions and by teaching children new ways of coping thus increasing skill development.
Recent Activites and Media Acknowledgements"Never Say Impossible" Radio Broadcast, WQ4D Radio, February 2nd, 2012
Miami Herald Interview with Dr. Nolan, January 3rd, 2012 Developmental Play Therapy Training, Barnsley, England, June 2011
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Upcoming Development Play Therapy Training
May 15-18th, 2012
30 CEU and Play Therapy Training Hours
Boynton Beach, Florida click here for information
Click here for the training agenda
January 29th - February 1, 2013
30 CEU and Play Therapy Training Hours
May 14-17th, 2013
30 CEU and Play Therapy Training Hours
Training? Question? Comment?
Would you like to be notified about upcoming trainings with Dr. Courtney? Do you have question or comment for Dr. Courtney? Please e-mail Dr. Courtney.
Announcement:
The Rainbow Weather Massage storybook, an interactive parent-child activity based on joyful play and essential touch, is a playful story that helps lessen anxiety and fear in children. Look for Dr. Courtney's creative storybook releasing in July of 2012.
Dr. Courtney’s groundbreaking research into Developmental Play Therapy has been published in the Journal of the American Art Therapy Association. SEE:
Perspectives of a Child Therapist as Revealed Through an Image Illustrated by the Therapist, Fall, 2011, Journal of the American Art Therapy Association Vol. 28, Issue 3
Dr. Courtney's Chapter on Autism is now published. SEE:
Courtney, J.A. (2012). Touching autism through developmental play therapy.
In L. Rubin & L. Gallo-Lopez (Eds.), Play-based interventions for children and adolescents on the autism spectrum. New York: Routledge
“There seems to be a powerful force within each individual which strives continuously for complete self-realization. This force may be characterized as a drive toward maturity, independence, and self-direction. It goes on relentlessly to achieve consummation, but it needs good ‘growing ground’ to develop a well balanced structure.”
Virginia Axline, Play Therapy, p. 10
Dr. Courtney is able to provide consultations and therapy via telephone either locally or long distance through appointment only. Contact Dr. Courtney for further information.
