Anxiety Play Therapy Training

Anxiety shows up in your playroom every day—separation fears, phobias, social anxiety, perfectionism, and those big life worries.

And let’s be real… it’s intense. Kids dig in their heels, parents are desperate for change, and you’re left wondering "Is what I'm doing actually working?"

It’s easy to feel paralyzed in the storm of anxiety.

You’re not alone—and you don’t need to figure it out by trial and error.

+ 3500

Play Therapists Trained

You’ll be glad you got trained - and so will your clients!
The time to start increasing your effectiveness with anxiety is now!

🍀 CONFIDENCE

☀️ CLARITY

🌈 EASE

At-your-fingertip techniques, prompts, and ideas specifically for anxiety. Gone are the days of doing backflips for session planning and stale interventions!

You know your stuff! What to do with school refusal, perfectionism, separation difficulties, and bedtime battles. AND how to help parents become co-regulators along the way- you got this!

Nearly foolproof tools in your back pocket to help create movement and bust through even the most complicated anxiety symptoms! It's like the rainbow at the end of the storm!

Inside the course you get multiple handouts, templates, cheat sheets, and downloads including:

🗸 Cognitive Behavioral Worksheet Bundle - all the CBPT handouts you will need for clients in one place!
🗸 New Mood Jar - tons of playful ideas to help with emotional regulation
🗸 Behavioral Planning Guide - how to make behavioral plans effective for kids and teens with anxiety
🗸 Completing The Stress Cycle Guide - 70+ ways to complete the stress cycle and move through the anxiety
response

40+ pages of practical, evidence based, ready to use tools.

This course is approved for 5.5 APT Non-Contact hours by Meehan Mental Health Services (APT Approved Provider 19-580).

Learning Objectives:

Describe over 24 Cognitive Behavioral Play Therapy interventions that are appropriate to use with anxiety.
Demonstrate ability to understand criteria for differential diagnoses of the top 5 common anxiety diagnoses.
Describe the major features of how working with a dual diagnosis of trauma and anxiety can impact treatment vs. stand alone anxiety diagnoses.
Identify the four major risk factors for development of anxiety in childhood.
Describe the proposed 6 step model for using CBPT with anxiety.
Describe the stress response basics and how the stress response impacts working with play therapy and anxiety.

This training is perfect *chef's kiss* for any busy therapist who wants to be more effective with anxiety. You don't want just any regulation techniques - you want to know the specific strategies to use depending on what type of anxiety is presenting. You want to know what you are doing is actually going to work!

This online course allows you to train when it works for you! The course is pre-recorded and self paced where each module is broken up into smaller digestible chunks that can be completed during a client cancellation, on the weekends, early in the morning, late at night - whenever!

You can login at your own pace, re-watch content, and have unlimited access to the course.

Start filling your play therapy toolbox with these essential techniques, activities, and strategies for working with anxiety!

Or formally Ann Meehan, MS, LPCC, RPT-S, EMDRIA Consultant. I work as a private practice therapist in the north woods of Minnesota and specialize in working with young people ages 3 and up using Play Therapy and EMDR. I have a library of trainings and run The Playful Therapist Blog. Overall I am passionate about helping other therapists grow into competent and confident Play Therapists, trauma therapists, and child and adolescent therapists.

Climb aboard this play therapy training and let's start navigating the waters of anxiety - together!

Please email [email protected] with questions or concerns.

Play Therapy Credit may not be awarded to non-mental health professionals. There are no refunds for this recorded course.
See Meehan Mental Health Services full policies and procedures for online and in person trainings here.