Playful Therapy for Children and Young People:

Narrative Based Activities for Assessment and Intervention

25 September 2024, 1:00pm - 4:00pm AEST

This training is designed for those in child counselling and mental health services who want to ‘hear the voice of the child’.

Learn how to therapeutically and playfully engage with young clients for assessment, intervention and outcome evaluation. Learn simple, respectful ways to establish boundaries, explain confidentiality and assess risk with clients 5-17 years old.

It will incorporate a range of engaging, imaginative activities to invite connection, foster enjoyable participation and help a child both explore their current problems, and reveal and name their resourcefulness and strengths.

Presenter:

Kim Billington, Masters in Counselling, Masters in Narrative Therapy and Community Work, Bachelors in Education Kim is a registered supervisor and counsellor registered as a clinical supervisor with PACFA and ACA.

Kim is passionate about training and supervision and is the author of two books for practitioners: A Counsellor’s Companion, for those working with children, and Counselling Conversations for those working with adult clients.

Committed to passing forward her ever-evolving counselling skills and knowledge, Kim aims to support and inspire counselling practitioners to develop their own unique creative skills and explore new ways to connect with their clients to support healing and identity growth.

As a dynamic course facilitator, Kim has been running training programs including, Playful Narrative Therapy since 2013 for Sydney Centre for Creative Change. She has been facilitating groups and workshops for over 25 years.

This course counts towards 3 hours of category A CPD.

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