Lorie Walton is the Founder and Lead Therapist of Family First Play Therapy Centre Inc, in Bradford, Ontario Canada, a centre focused on assisting children and families dealing with attachment, trauma and emotional and developmental issues. She is a Certified Child Psychotherapist Play Therapist Supervisor and a Certified Theraplay® Therapist Trainer Supervisor. She has extensive training in working with adopted and foster care children who experience attachment related issues and trauma. Along with her private practice in Canada, Lorie is part of the Theraplay Institute’s International Training team and has been blessed with the opportunity to act as co-trainer with Theraplay’s very own Phyllis Booth. Over the last 7 years, she has had the privilege of bringing Theraplay to communities across Canada, England, and the United States.

Before training to become a Child Psychotherapist Play Therapist, Lorie devoted her life and studies as a Special Needs Resource teacher for children, especially those with Developmental and Physical Disabilities, including Autism. She has worked with the Ministry of Education Program Standards Unit (Ontario, Canada) as well as for the Ministry of Community, Family and Children’s Services, Special Needs Branch (Ontario, Canada) as a consultant in developing programming for children with Special Needs. Her involvement at the community level consists of being a past member of the Board of Directors for Blue Hills Child and Family Services in Aurora Ontario for three years. Lorie has been the President for the Canadian Association for Child and Play Therapy (CACPT) since 2005. She provides clinical consultation and play therapy clinical supervision to agencies and to Play Therapists and Theraplay Therapists all over the world. You can reach her at familyfirstlw@bellnet.ca or by calling the centre at 905-775-1620.

Presenting:

This one day hands-on workshop is for Therapists, Social Workers, Educators and Health Care Providers. It is also presented for Parents, Grandparents and Extended Family Members who have Adopted a child or children or who are Fostering Children. Professionals supporting these families are encouraged to attend.

This workshop is geared to help not only therapists, social workers, educators and foster and adopted parents, but their extended family members as well. It is a fun, interactive workshop which helps caregivers and their support teams learn the importance of using unique parenting techniques to help emotionally settle an adopted or foster child.

Children who have experienced attachment losses are unique in their ability to become securely attached. This hands-on fun, interactive workshop will review the psychobiological impact of their early life experiences and how interventions like Theraplay® can assist in helping secure attachments begin to form.

This 6 hour presentation offers practitioners and parents the opportunity to learn the WHY, the WHAT and the HOW in helping children who have disrupted attachment histories. It is a dynamic, hands-on presentation that offers strategies and tools to take home and begin using right away.

Please contact Elizabeth A. Sharpe, Executive Director, CACPT: Elizabeth@cacpt.com for further information about registration.

For more information on the workshop or the AGM call Nancy Stevens at (306) 244-8750

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