Play therapy rooted in connection and encouragement.
Rather than viewing children through a deficit-based lens, Adlerian Play Therapy emphasizes strengths, resilience, social interest, and the importance of feeling connected, capable, and significant. Clinicians use the playroom as a space to foster safety, explore lifestyle patterns and mistaken beliefs, support emotional growth, and help children and families move toward healthier patterns of interaction and encouragement.
Learn, grow, and deepen your practice
Courses and Workshops
The League of Extraordinary Adlerian Play Therapists (LEAPT) is a community dedicated to learning, growth, certification, and deepening clinical skill in Adlerian Play Therapy.
Through education, consultation, and connection, LEAPT supports clinicians in strengthening both their confidence and their practice. LEAPT also offers specialized training, workshops, and experiential learning opportunities.
Certification Programs
Certification pathways are designed to help clinicians deepen their mastery of Adlerian Play Therapy through immersive training, consultation, clinical application, and reflective growth.
From foundational certification to advanced specialization, the process emphasizes practical skill development, treatment fidelity, conceptualization, and meaningful integration of Adlerian principles into play therapy practice.
Books and Materials
Explore books, treatment manuals, and clinical resources designed to strengthen your understanding and application of Adlerian Play Therapy.
Whether you are just beginning your journey or deepening advanced clinical skills, Adlerian Play Therapy materials offer practical guidance, creative interventions, and meaningful insight for work with children, families, and caregivers.
Find a Certified Adlerian Play Therapist
Certification in Adlerian Play Therapy represents demonstrated mastery in building therapeutic relationships with clients while understanding and exploring their interpersonal and intrapersonal dynamics through an Adlerian lens.
Certified clinicians have shown competency in Adlerian conceptualization, individualized treatment planning, and the use of developmentally responsive play therapy strategies designed to support meaningful change and movement toward therapeutic goals. Certification also reflects proficiency in working collaboratively with parents, caregivers, teachers, and other significant individuals in a child’s life.