| Participants will explore how racial, cultural, and spiritual identities influence family dynamics, emotional expression, and healing, particularly for children and families of color.This experiential workshop is designed for therapists seeking to deepen their work with families through a culturally responsive and identity-affirming play therapy lens. The workshop will also examine how racialized stress, intergenerational patterns, and spirituality emerge in family therapy and how these experiences can be engaged therapeutically to create healing spaces in play therapy where children and families feel seen, supported, and valued in their full identities. Grounded in play therapy and mind-body approaches, the training helps clinicians move beyond surface-level cultural competence toward more intentional, relational, and embodied therapeutic work through reflection, case discussions, and experiential activities, participants will learn practical ways to integrate identity into assessment, case conceptualization, and intervention. Objectives: 1. Identify at least three ways racial, cultural, and spiritual identities influence family dynamics, child behavior, and emotional expression within play therapy settings. 2. Describe how racialized stress and intergenerational experiences of oppression may present in children’s play and family interactions. 3. Demonstrate at least two culturally responsive play therapy interventions that integrate elements of a family’s racial cultural, or spiritual identity. 4. Apply an identity-informed lens to case conceptualization by incorporating at least three identity-related factors (e.g. race, culture, spirituality, family values) into a sample case scenario. 5. Utilize at least two reflective practices to increase self awareness of personal biases, cultural assumptions, and their impact on the therapeutic relationship. 6. Develop one actionable strategy to intentionally incorporate a family’s cultural or spiritual practices into ongoing treatment planning.
Presenter: Kristian Owens, LCSW-C, RPT, Where: In-Person - The Moose lodge 3529 Chain Bridge Rd. Fairfax, VA 22030 When: Saturday September, 26, 2026 Presentation: 9:00am-12:15pm (ET) Time Cost: Early Bird (ends 8/14 at 11:59pm ) $80.00, Regular Rate $90.00 Student: $40.00 (With VALID ID). Send to CELESTE@crossroadsfamilycc.com Target Audience: Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists and Play Therapists. Schedule:
9:00-10:30- Discuss understanding of identity,culture and family systems in play therapy 10:30-10:45 Break 10:45- 11:30 Review culturally responsive play therapy interventions and self-reflection 11:30-12:00 Case conceptualization and treatment planning 12:00-12:15 Questions and Answsers
CE INFO: This event has been approved by APT, NBCC and ASWB for 3.00 CE Hours.
- This workshop meets APT’s definition of in person Contact hours and qualifies as a Play Therapy Cultural and Social Diversity Topics
- This will be a live in person meeting..
- Participants may ask and answer questions throughout the presentation and participate in instructor-led discussion.
- Participants must be present for the entire training and will be awarded contact CE's upon successful completion of a course evaluation at the end of training.
- CFCC is approved by the Association for Play Therapy to offer continuing education specific to play therapy. CFCC maintains responsibility for the program. APT Approved Provider 13-360.
- CFCC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7493. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CFCC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
- CFCC provider #2347, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 10/04/2025–10/04/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 3 general continuing education credits.
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