Supervision Conference Details
Beyond the Basics: Advanced Skills for Navigating High-Risk and Sensitive Cases in Play Therapy Supervision
Lead with empathy. Supervise with confidence. Master the hard stuff.
Join us at the Minnesota Association for Play Therapy’s annual conference for a Play Therapy Supervision Training for clinicians eager to add more tools to their supervision toolbox with play therapy supervision expert Dana Wyss, PhD, LMFT, ATR-BC, RPT.
Supervising play therapists through high-risk and sensitive cases requires more than foundational skills—it demands clarity, compassion, and advanced strategies. This workshop equips supervisors to navigate critical topics such as suicide, grief and loss, and self-injury with confidence and care. Complex and high-risk cases are inevitable in supervision—but they don’t have to feel overwhelming. This workshop equips play therapy supervisors with practical strategies to hold space for supervisees while maintaining clarity and compassion. Gain tools for addressing ethical complexities and guide supervisees through the most challenging clinical moments. Learn how to foster trust, navigate sensitive topics, build critical thinking, and support growth in challenging moments.
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Date: Wednesday April 15th
Cost: Members: $50 | Non Members: $60 | No day of registration for this virtual event
CEs: This training is approved by the Minnesota Association for Play Therapy (APT Approved Provider 06-177) for 2 APT Non-Contact CEs. Play therapy credit may not be given to non-mental health professionals. This training is also pending approval by the Minnesota Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy, Social Work, and Marriage and Family Therapy.
Location:
From anywhere you learn and play! This event is a virtual non-contact event and can have unlimited participants. Cameras will need to be on the entirety of the training and you will need to pass a quiz to get your CEs.
Supervising play therapists through high-risk and sensitive cases requires more than foundational skills—it demands clarity, compassion, and advanced strategies. This workshop equips supervisors to navigate critical topics such as suicide, grief and loss, and self-injury with confidence and care. Complex and high-risk cases are inevitable in supervision—but they don’t have to feel overwhelming. This workshop equips play therapy supervisors with practical strategies to hold space for supervisees while maintaining clarity and compassion. Gain tools for addressing ethical complexities and guide supervisees through the most challenging clinical moments. Learn how to foster trust, navigate sensitive topics, build critical thinking, and support growth in challenging moments.
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Date: Wednesday April 15th
Cost: Members: $50 | Non Members: $60 | No day of registration for this virtual event
CEs: This training is approved by the Minnesota Association for Play Therapy (APT Approved Provider 06-177) for 2 APT Non-Contact CEs. Play therapy credit may not be given to non-mental health professionals. This training is also pending approval by the Minnesota Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy, Social Work, and Marriage and Family Therapy.
Location:
From anywhere you learn and play! This event is a virtual non-contact event and can have unlimited participants. Cameras will need to be on the entirety of the training and you will need to pass a quiz to get your CEs.
Training Objectives
- Identify and articulate at least three high-risk clinical issues (e.g., suicide, grief and loss, self-injury) and their impact on play therapy supervision by the end of the session.
- Practice at least two creative supervision strategies for navigating high-risk situations during the workshop.
- Develop a personalized action plan outlining at least three steps for applying creative play therapy supervision skills to high-risk cases within their clinical practice.
Registration Information:
This is a virtual event held in Central Time. To register click the button below.
You will be emailed a Zoom link for the training as well as handouts through Eventbrite.
You will be emailed a Zoom link for the training as well as handouts through Eventbrite.
Annual Conference:
The Minnesota Association for Play Therapy will hold their Annual Play Therapy Conference as a two day training from Thursday April 16th and Friday April 17th! Learn more about the annual conference HERE!
Dana Wyss, PhD, LMFT, ATR-BC, RPT is a licensed marriage and family therapist, board-certified clinical art therapist, registered play therapist, and co-author of The Invisible String Workbook and Hope and The Winds of Grief Workbook. Her doctorate in expressive therapies has led her to create programs integrating art, play, poetry, sports, and animal-assisted therapy in clients' healing process and staff's self-care. For the last 30 years, Dr. Wyss has worked in psychiatric hospitals, group homes, community mental health, and nonpublic school settings to manage crises, conduct training, coach staff, and support children and families. Dr. Wyss is a Corporate Clinical Training Specialist and Clinical/Art therapy supervisor at Stars Behavioral Health Group, a company specializing in the treatment of complex developmental trauma. She also owns a small private practice. Dr. Wyss is an international speaker and consultant. She uses her creativity for her own healing as well as to support others.
Dr. Wyss is an artist specializing in photography, mixed media, and oil painting. Over the last twenty years she has learned to use her creativity to support her healing and progression through several difficult and wonderful life experiences. Originally working in photography and mixed media, Dr. Wyss spent the first part of her art career exploring multiple types of media and honing her photographic eye. Photographing what is all around to capture beautiful moments that often go unseen. In the last 10 years she has studied under the Master Artist Rino Gonzales refining her skills, building confidence in her artistic voice, blending her love of the unusual with the realistic style of her mentor, and creating art for personal healing.
Dr. Wyss is an artist specializing in photography, mixed media, and oil painting. Over the last twenty years she has learned to use her creativity to support her healing and progression through several difficult and wonderful life experiences. Originally working in photography and mixed media, Dr. Wyss spent the first part of her art career exploring multiple types of media and honing her photographic eye. Photographing what is all around to capture beautiful moments that often go unseen. In the last 10 years she has studied under the Master Artist Rino Gonzales refining her skills, building confidence in her artistic voice, blending her love of the unusual with the realistic style of her mentor, and creating art for personal healing.
Training Agenda:
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Training
MN APT Policies:
Refunds are not able to be given within two weeks of the conference date. All requests for accommodations require your request to be on file in our office 30 days prior to the training date. Minnesota Association for Play Therapy will make reasonable efforts to accommodate participants with disabilities access to trainings. Any grievances with trainings can be directed to the Minnesota Association for Play Therapy.
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