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Course Description


Loss impacts us greatly. Some losses are celebrated, like losing a tooth or ending a dreadful relationship. Others loss are frequently minimized, like moving to a new community, and some losses are too horrible to mention that even people who were supportive become afraid, like the death of a child. This training will include looking at the complex, varied and multiple losses people face. The participants will be challenged to look at the ways clients (child, adolescents and adults) minimize and deny loss experiences. Participants will take part in an authentic learning experience where sand play therapy- based interventions can be used to honor the losses experienced by clients so that growth and healing can take place. 

By the end of the workshop participants will be able to: 

1) experience and create sand play therapy techniques for use with grieving client 

2) identify the multiple and varied losses experienced by our clients 

3) understand when and how to utilize sand play therapy techniques in treatment


Presented by: 

Jodi Mullen PhD, LMHC, NCC, RPT-S, CCPT-Master

Duration: 3 Hrs


Continuing Education (3 CEs)
Integrative Mental Health Counseling Services, PLLC is recognized  by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental  Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for  licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0085

Integrative  Mental Health Counseling Services, PLLC is recognized by the New York  State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved  provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0308.

Integrative Counseling Services, PLLC is approved by The Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to play therapy. Our provider number is 06-168.



Course Curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • How to Complete this Course!

    • Welcome!

    • Tell us more about YOU!

  • 2

    Course

    • Main Course Video - Healing the Hurt of Loss Through Sand Play Therapy

    • Healing the Hurt of Losses through Sand Play Therapy

  • 3

    Resources

    • Handout - Empathizing vs. Giving Solutions

    • Counseling Children and Adolescents through Grief and Loss (BOOK)

    • Glossary of Play Therapy Terms

    • Dr. Mullen's Favorite Play Therapy Reads!

  • 4

    Continuing Education

    • Continuing Education Quiz

  • 5

    Course Feedback

    • Course Feedback Survey

About the instructors

PhD, LMHC, NCC, RPT-S, CCPT-Master

Jodi Mullen

Dr. Jodi Weinstein Mullen, PhD LMHC NCC RPT-S CCPT-Master is the Director of Integrative Counseling Services in Oswego, Fulton, Cicero, and Auburn, New York. She is on the faculty at SUNY Oswego in the Counseling & Psychological Services Department where she is the coordinator of the Graduate Certificate Program in Play Therapy. Dr. Mullen is a credentialed play therapist and play therapy supervisor. She is the author of several manuscripts on play therapy and supervision. Her books include “Counseling Children and Adolescents through Grief and Loss”(co-authored by Dr. Jody Fiorini)(2006), “Play Therapy Basic Training: A Guide to Learning & Living & the Child-Centered Play Therapy Philosophy”(2007), “Supervision can be Playful: Techniques for Child and Play Therapist Supervisors” (co-edited with Athena Drewes) (2008), and “How Play Therapists Can Engage Parents & Professionals” (co-authored by June Rickli)(2011). Dr. Mullen is on the editorial board for the international Journal of Play Therapy. She is also the clinical editor of Play Therapy magazine.