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2,4,6,8 This is How We Regulate: Play Therapy Techniques to Help with Emotion Dysregulation
Tracy Turner-Bumberry, LPC, RPT-S, CAS
August 28, 2026
9am-4pm
The Junior League of Nashville, 2202 Crestmoor Road, Nashville, TN
6 CEs, Play therapy credit is only awarded to mental health professionals
This essential training is designed for play therapists seeking creative, practical, and effective ways to support clients who experience frequent dysregulation. Join Tracy Turner-Bumberry for an engaging 6-hour presentation exploring mindfulness, emotion regulation, and evidence-informed techniques to strengthen clients’ self-regulation skills.
Participants will leave with a wide range of ready-to-use strategies that build confidence and effectiveness in the play therapy room. All activities are designed to be simple, portable, and require minimal materials—making them easy to integrate into your existing practice.
Register now for a dynamic, hands-on training experience that is both meaningful and immediately applicable.
Learning Objectives:
1. Assess and conceptualize common patterns of emotional and behavioral dysregulation
observed in play therapy settings.
2. Review the Process Model of Emotion Regulation and apply its components to case
conceptualization and intervention planning in play therapy.
3. Differentiate between antecedent-focused and response-focused play therapy
interventions and evaluate their clinical utility.
4. Define intentional practice and examine its role in the selection, implementation, and
refinement of play therapy interventions.
5. Demonstrate the use of brief “in-the-moment” play therapy interventions to support rapid stabilization and promote a calm therapeutic environment.
6. Implement at least four developmentally appropriate, replicable play therapy interventions to reduce client dysregulation across settings.
Sponsored by TNAPT
APT approved provider 23-687
2,4,6,8 This is How We Regulate: Play Therapy Techniques to Help with Emotion Dysregulation
Tracy Turner-Bumberry, LPC, RPT-S, CAS
August 28, 2026
9am-4pm
The Junior League of Nashville, 2202 Crestmoor Road, Nashville, TN
6 CEs, Play therapy credit is only awarded to mental health professionals
This essential training is designed for play therapists seeking creative, practical, and effective ways to support clients who experience frequent dysregulation. Join Tracy Turner-Bumberry for an engaging 6-hour presentation exploring mindfulness, emotion regulation, and evidence-informed techniques to strengthen clients’ self-regulation skills.
Participants will leave with a wide range of ready-to-use strategies that build confidence and effectiveness in the play therapy room. All activities are designed to be simple, portable, and require minimal materials—making them easy to integrate into your existing practice.
Register now for a dynamic, hands-on training experience that is both meaningful and immediately applicable.
Learning Objectives:
1. Assess and conceptualize common patterns of emotional and behavioral dysregulation
observed in play therapy settings.
2. Review the Process Model of Emotion Regulation and apply its components to case
conceptualization and intervention planning in play therapy.
3. Differentiate between antecedent-focused and response-focused play therapy
interventions and evaluate their clinical utility.
4. Define intentional practice and examine its role in the selection, implementation, and
refinement of play therapy interventions.
5. Demonstrate the use of brief “in-the-moment” play therapy interventions to support rapid stabilization and promote a calm therapeutic environment.
6. Implement at least four developmentally appropriate, replicable play therapy interventions to reduce client dysregulation across settings.
Sponsored by TNAPT
APT approved provider 23-687