Course Description

Limit setting in play therapy is a valuable and necessary skill. As certified Child-Centered Play Therapists, the presenters of this course have a great deal of experience setting limitations in play therapy sessions. Throughout this course, you will learn to structure your play therapy sessions using limit setting that will ensure the safety of the child, the clinician, and the room itself without damaging the child's agency in therapy. You will also learn how to set limits using a specific script that you can begin to make your own. This advanced skill is useful for helping kids contain their sometimes overwhelming feelings, and also offers new possibilities for processing and releasing strong and sometimes complicated emotions. 

In this course, participants will learn basic limit setting skills for play therapy. By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

1.) When limits should be set in the context of child centered play therapy

2.) Have a model for how limits should be set in play therapy sessions

3.) Be able to make clinical arguments for setting particular limits.



Presented by: 
Tiffany Tesoriero MS, LMHC, LPC, CCPT

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

Duration: 1 Hrs

Continuing Education (1 CE)
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 - Limit Setting in Play Therapy

    • Limit Setting in PT
  • 3

    Resources

    • Dr. Mullen's Favorite Play Therapy Reads!

    • Glossary of Play Therapy Terms

    • ACT handout - Modifying Limit Setting

    • CCPT advantages-disadvantages

    • Play Therapy case note template

    • Returning Responsibility Technique
  • 4

    Continuing Education

    • Continuing Education Quiz
  • 5

    Course Feedback

    • Course Feedback Survey

MS, LPC, CCPT-S (in training)

Tiffany Tesoriero

Tiffany Tesoriero is a  Licensed Professional Counselor as well as a Child-Centered Play  Therapist. She earned her master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling  from the State University of New York at Oswego and went on to receive  licensure in the states of New York and Colorado. She has earned  additional credentialing as a Child-Centered Play Therapist through the  National Institute of Relationship Enhancement (NIRE). She is also  currently in the process of becoming a play therapy supervisor through  NIRE. Tiffany worked at Integrative Counseling Services in New York, and  since relocating to Colorado has opened her own private practice,  Sunrise Springs Counseling Services.

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.