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Children's Therapy Centre, Ballymore, Mullingar (2026)

22/04/2026

I am delighted to share with you a wonderful TedX talk from an equally wonderful CTC graduate Dr. Wen Wang Whelan. Please do treat yourself to a listen, it is a fabulous talk. Congratulations Wen, we are all so proud of you. Thank you for sharing this with us all!!

I will include a direct link to the TEDx talk in
my stories as I cannot do it here!

Wen’s words:

💛This talk comes from a deeply personal and professional journey — from neuroscience into psychotherapy, and from understanding the brain in theory to witnessing healing through connection, play, and relationships in real life.

I created this talk to explore how our experiences — even the unexpected or challenging ones — can shape us into who we’re meant to become. It’s about resilience, integration, and the power of safe, attuned relationships in changing outcomes for children and families.

If you’re a parent, a professional, or simply someone curious about how we grow and heal, I hope this resonates with you.

If it speaks to you, I’d really appreciate you sharing it far and wide — these conversations matter, and they belong in more spaces.

And if you’d like to connect, collaborate, or bring this work into your community or organisation, you can reach me at:
hello@wayfindingwithwen.com

Thank you for being part of this journey 💛

I hope you enjoy the TedX talk as much as me!! Congrats again Wen, you are a true gem.

Siobhán 💫

21/04/2026

Little snippets of Carol and I in action today! We had an absolutely amazing day today at Trauma Informed Kildare’s incredible conference “Compassion in Action – Turning Understanding into Everyday Practice”. We were delighted to share our passion for the Therapeutic Powers of Play with such an engaged audience. I gave a keynote presentation and Carol facilitated two action packed and extremely playful workshops - the combination was wonderful. Yet again, I am feeling incredibly grateful that I get to work with absolute legends - you are AMAZING. Thank you to all involved for inviting us to be part of this wonderful event. We will share more photos soon.💖

18/04/2026

Happy Saturday!! I am delighted to let you know that the very wonderful Sonia Murray is delivering another fantastic CPD training for us this April. This time she will be exploring “Attachment Theory in the Play Therapy Room”. This is a super training opportunity for fully qualified and student Play Therapists.

Children’s Therapy Centre - Live Online Training Event

Attachment Theory in the Play Therapy Room

Facilitator: Sonia Murray

Date: Tuesday 28th April 2026

Time: 6pm-9pm

Fee: €65

This 3-hour live on workshop is designed to enhance your understanding of attachment theory and its application within Play Therapy. Through an exploration of attachment theory, you will learn how different attachment strategies manifest in therapy, offering insights into creating secure and supportive therapeutic environments. This course focuses on practical approaches to understanding and working with children’s attachment needs, equipping you with tools to foster healing and development through play. Ideal for therapists, this course empowers you to implement attachment-informed approaches that create lasting positive change.

Book in our website: www.childrenstherapycentre.ie

06/04/2026

Our Easter Discount code is still live!!! A great chance to book it one of our upcoming short courses. Make sure to use the code “CTC10” before you check out 🎉

05/04/2026

Happy Easter Sunday to all! I am soaking up the Portuguese sun with my loves, so grateful to have this time here with them. My heart is full. Whatever you are up to today, I really hope joy and laughter find their way to you, and chocolate too of course!! Siobhán 💫

03/04/2026

Happy Easter weekend to all!! To spread some Easter cheer this “Good Friday”, we have decided to run a discount code for our short courses. To avail of the discount, you simply book into any of our upcoming short courses on our website www.childrenstherapycentre.ie and enter the code “CTC10” at checkout! You need to click “view cart” when you reach the checkout stage and type “CTC10” in the “Coupon Code” box. The discount will be available for one week. We have some amazing courses running over the coming months, now is definitely a great time to book yourself in. We look forward to welcoming you to one of our innovative trainings very soon.

Here are a few of the courses we have coming up! Click on the course name for full details.

💫An Introduction to Play Therapy with Carol Duffy – April 27th

💫Attachment Theory in the Play Therapy Room with Sonia Murray – 28th April

💫Building Inner Besties: Strategies to boost children’s self-concept and self-esteem with Emer McDonagh – 29th April

💫Being with Big Feelings with Emer McDonagh – 7th May

💫From Drama to Empowerment: Navigating the Drama Triangle in Clinical Supervision with Michelle Fahy – 8th May

💫Creative Endings in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy with Carol Dufft – 18th May

💫Sensational Sensory Play with Emer McDonagh – 27th May

💫And of course, PLAY THERAPY WITH ELINA GIL : 27th – 29th June!

Happy Easter All!
Siobhán

01/04/2026

Happy Wednesday!! I come sharing a change in plans for Dr. Eliana Gil’s upcoming training this June. The training will now take place LIVE ONLINE instead of in person in Limerick. With the change in format, we are also switching to 4 x three hour live online sessions instead of 2 in person training days and reducing the course fee. The training content and trainer remain the same. If you work with traumatised children, teenagers or families you do not want to miss this incredible event. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn from one of the true pioneers in our field, I really do hope that this change in format will make it possible for you to join us!

💫Children’s Therapy Centre – 4 Part Live Online Training

💫Play Therapy with Eliana Gil

💫Trainer: Dr Eliana Gil 🤩🤩🤩

💫27th, 28th, 29th & 30th June 2026

💫2pm-5pm Each Day

💫 Total Fee: €280

A 4 Part Training in Post-traumatic play and working with children with sexual behaviour problems

This one of a kind live online training is designed to equip child therapists to facilitate healing play, and to make informed clinical decisions and utilise integrated approaches when providing therapy to traumatised children whose play remains stuck and where their behaviour may be problematic to themselves and or others. This will specifically include children where port-traumatic play may be retraumatizing and children who struggle with sexual behaviour problems.

Suitable for: This training is suitable for trainee and qualified play therapists, psychotherapists, counsellors, expressive and creative arts therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other mental health professionals working within the range of psychotherapeutic modalities providing therapy and/or assessment for children/adolescents and their parents.

You will find full details and booking link in our website www.childrenstherapycentre

I really hope that you can join us for this incredible training opportunity.

Siobhán 💫

28/03/2026

Final call for anyone interested in joining our next Therapeutic Play Skills Certificate course. If you have been thinking about applying for this course now is your time to do so!

CTC’s Therapeutic Play Skills Certificate, a QQI Level 6 Minor Award, is a fantastic course for professionals working with children, or parents/carers, interested in developing new skills to make more therapeutic use of play within their current professional role. It is also ideal foundation level training for anyone considering applying for our MA course. CTC’s Certificate in Therapeutic Play Skills is offered on a part-time basis and equips participants with the relevant knowledge, skill and competencies to plan, deliver and evaluate both group and individual play-based interventions.

One April intake is taking place in person in our Limerick training centre. This is a wonderful opportunity to complete this amazing course face to face. An added bonus is that one of our wonderful MA trainers, Cathy O Byrne is facilitating the Limerick course.

April In Person Limerick Course Dates: 11th & 12th April, April 19th, 2nd&3rd May, 13th & 14th June

Trainer: Cathy O’Bryne

The second April intake is being offered as a “remote” live online learning programmes with experiential learning opportunities built in throughout.

April Live Online Intake Dates: 11th& 12thApril, May 2nd,23rd& 24thMay, June 6th& 7th.Assignments due on or before July 12th. 10am – 5pm live online each day.

Trainer: Edel Lawlor

Applications will be closing for both intakes soon so if you are ready to stay this incredible training please get your application in! Full details and online application available at www.childrenstherapycentre.ie

22/03/2026

Having Dr. Sue Bratton facilitate for us was a wonderful end to our CPRT training, thank you so much to Dr. Sue, Cathy , Lisa and Liz for facilitating this wonderful course for us. And massive thank you to the wonderfully playful and engaged therapists who joined us for the course, it was great to have you with us! A very successful course indeed.

CPRT - Child Parent Relationship Therapy - is an evidence based Filial Therapy model. We are excited for all that lies ahead for the therapists who completed the training with us and for the families they are going to work with. We are also excited to plan the next course, if you are interested in completing our training in Child Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT): A 10-Session Filial Therapy Model for Groups please register your interest on our website - www.childrenstherapycentre.ie

14/03/2026

Our ever popular QQI Level 6, 15 Credit, Therapeutic Play Skills Certificate Course is starting in person in Limerick this April. This is our only in person Therapeutic Play Skills course taking place in Limerick the year so if you are keen to attend this training in person now is your time to do so!!

CTC’s Therapeutic Play Skills Certificate is a fantastic course for professionals working with children, or parents/carers, interested in developing new skills to make more therapeutic use of play within their current professional role. It is also ideal foundation level training for anyone considering applying for our MA course.

The Limerick course takes place in CTC’s Limerick premises and is facilitated by one of our fabulous MA trainers, Cathy O’ Byrne

Our Certificate in Therapeutic Play Skills is offered on a part-time basis and equips participants with the relevant knowledge, skill and competencies to plan, deliver and evaluate both group and individual play-based interventions. The training is an interactive learning programme with experiential learning opportunities built in throughout. Participants engage in creative activities that enhance personal development, develop insight and awareness, and contribute to understanding, and meeting, the needs of all children including those living in adverse circumstances.

Course content includes coverage of many therapeutic play interventions, including creative visualisation, interactive play, use of puppets and creative storytelling, skills to support self-directed play and running groups for personal and social development. Directive and non-directive therapeutic approaches are addressed.

Places are limited so if you do want to join this training incredible training in Limerick make sure to get your application into us soon. You will find full details and online application on our website www.childrenstherapycentre.ie

11/03/2026

Excitement is building here for the start of our brand new Professional Diploma in Sandtray Therapy and Symbolic Expression, which is starting this May. Read on for full details on this IACP CPD Approved course (84 CPD Points).

This exciting Diploma course will bring you deep into the world of projective play and the use of symbols as therapeutic agents with psychotherapy and counselling clients. You will engage in experiential sessions utilising sandtray therapy, spectrograms, and the use of symbols. The training is relevant for therapists working with adults, adolescents, and/or children. Making use of right-brain processes and accessing implicit memories will deepen the therapy process and facilitate healing from unresolved issues that have their roots at any life stage. Accessing a direct route to the unconscious bypasses defences and maintains a felt sense of safety by providing dramatic distance from disturbing thoughts and feelings. This allows the social engagement system to stay active and protects the client from being triggered into a hyper- or hypo-aroused state. Creative expression, with a therapist who communicates strong safety cues, allows the player to experience a neuroception of safety even when processing difficult experiences. This is a blended learning course which makes the best use of the onsite training days for experiential learning, while facilitating your work/life balance by providing for a mixture of live online sessions, directed study tasks, and self-directed learning (including access to interactive learning opportunities for you to engage with at times to suit your own schedule.) The experiential nature of this course will support your personal and professional development, and you will acquire knowledge, skills, and competence that will enhance your clinical practice.

Suitable Applicants This training is suitable for trainee and qualified play therapists, counsellors, psychotherapists, expressive arts therapists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals working within the range of psychotherapeutic modalities with clients of all ages.Full details and online application available at www.childrenstherapycentre.ie

07/03/2026

Last weekend in Athens!! It was an absolute privilege and a true delight to share my passion for the therapeutic powers of play with this incredible group in Athens last weekend. What a wonderful time we had playing, laughing, and learning together. It truly was a fabulous experience. Thank you for inviting me to facilitate for you and thank you to this incredibly creative and playful group for engaging so fully in the workshop. You are all wonderful! I hope that we will get to play together again 🥰🎉💫

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