Welcome to Texas Association for Play Therapy!

Letter from the President

The Texas Association for Play Therapy is committed to promoting the practice of play therapy and the training of credentialed play therapists. We are so excited to be able to provide you training on the local level, through your local chapters (to find your local chapter go to http://www.txapt.org/chapters.html) and at the state level during our Annual Conference to be held in Corpus Christi (April 1-3, 2011) (http://www.txapt.org/conference/index2.html Conference registration and detailed information will be on the TAPT website in January so please visit us then!

As President of TAPT, I frequently get emails from people looking for a play therapist in their area. As part of your membership in TAPT/APT you are listed in a national database of play therapists, to facilitate clients finding a therapist in their area. Clients can search by name, city, state and zip. If you live in one area but practice in another you might consider listing your business address with APT so that clients looking for therapists in your area will find you! Double check your information with APT http://www.a4pt.org/directory.cfm. A local school counselor was recently looking for a play therapist in her area to refer a student to and when I showed her this resource she said- "Wow this directory is the best benefit of being a member of APT/TAPT why would anyone pass up this opportunity! What a wonderful resource for clients!"

I hope you will join us in our work toward promoting play therapy and the training of credentialed play therapists. Patti Doumany, Conference Chair, and her committee are working to put together an exciting weekend for us all. Dee Ray, PhD, will be speaking all day on Friday and again Saturday morning about the Play Therapy Process. On Saturday afternoon, Kelly Webb-Ferebee will be our closing keynote as well as the Sunday Supervision Presenter. We also have several very interesting topics for our breakout sessions on Saturday. So please join us in Corpus it is going to be a wonderful time to connect with other play therapists and learn from the best in our field!

Mary Morrison,
PhD, LPC, NCC, RPT-S
TAPT President