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Ensemble Learning Center, 4210 Spicewood Springs Road Suite 203, Austin, TX (2026)

01/13/2026

💛 A mid-month pause + a gentle reminder.

Amid the busy pace of life and work, this is your nudge to refill your cup — to return to what feels grounding and meaningful in your practice. Our upcoming workshop, Themes that Talk: A Trauma-Informed Tapestry of Play Therapy Themes with Claudia Ocampo LPC-S, RPT-S™, RST-C/T, is more than just continuing education — it’s an opportunity to slow down, reconnect, and rediscover the joy of play therapy.

✨ You’ll leave with tools to:
•Use play therapy themes to strengthen the therapist–child relationship by enhancing therapeutic attunement, empathy, responsiveness, and safety.
•Analyze how symbolic play therapy elements, metaphor and character roles contribute to the emergence and evolution of play themes.
•Evaluate the clinical significance of recurring play therapy themes to inform therapeutic interventions needed that foster healing.
•Formulate culturally responsive and trauma-informed interpretations of play therapy themes that honor client identity and lived experiences.
•Recognize how trauma activation, dissociation, and nervous-system cues show up within thematic play sequences.
•Explore advanced interventions that therapeutically address dominant and recurring play therapy themes in the playroom.
•Explain the clinical meaning of play therapy themes through a developmental, attachment, and neurobiological lens.

📆 Date: February 20, 2026
⏰ Time: 9am - 4:30pm CT

Online or at Ensemble Therapy
Northwest Office Location
4210 Spicewood Springs Rd, Suite 203
Austin, Texas 78759

This training will provide 6 CE Credits. Ensemble Therapy is an Approved Provider for the Association for Play Therapy (APT), Approved Provider 23-706.

💛 We’re committed to accessibility: A reduced rate is available for the duration of enrollment for our community members who are students, Black, Indigenous, or people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, those living with disabilities, experiencing financial hardship, or who have been impacted by systemic inequity.

👉 Click the link in our bio to register and join us!

❌ Need to cancel? ❌ Email hello@ensemblelearningcenter.com

01/12/2026

🌞 We’re one month away from Talking to Teens About Love: Promoting Healthy Relationships & Reducing Dating Violence.

It’s the perfect time to save your seat and start looking forward to a day of learning, reflection, and play. Join Christina Foxhall, LCSW-S for an engaging exploration of Talking to Teens About Love: Promoting Healthy Relationships & Reducing Dating Violence, — designed to inspire new ideas and grounded confidence in your clinical work.

💫 You’ll walk away able to:
•Discuss effective communication strategies to initiate and maintain open conversations with teens about relationships.
•Identify respectful and controlling dating behaviors in teen relationships and recognize warning signs of unhealthy relationships.
•Define Teen Dating Violence, discuss statistics, and respond supportively to disclosures.
•Identify prevention resources that promote healthy relationships and prevent dating abuse.

📆 Date: February 6, 2026
⏰ Time: 12-1pm CT
Live Webinar via Google Meet

Early Rate Ends January 16, 2026
Enrollment Closes February 5, 2026

💛 We’re committed to accessibility: A reduced rate is available for the duration of enrollment for our community members who are students, Black, Indigenous, or people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, those living with disabilities, experiencing financial hardship, or who have been impacted by systemic inequity.

👉 Click the link in our bio to register and join us!

❌ Need to cancel? ❌ Email hello@ensemblelearningcenter.com Cancellations made 14+ days before the session receive a 50% refund; cancellations within 14 days of the session or no-shows are non-refundable. If we are the ones to cancel, full refunds will be issued.

01/10/2026

✨ New Resource in the Ensemble Learning Center ✨

🌿 Encouragement vs. Praise: A Self-Esteem Building Guide

Children grow their strongest roots of confidence when their effort is seen and valued—not just the end result. Praise (“Great job!”) feels good in the moment, but encouragement (“You kept trying, even when it was tricky!”) plants the seeds of resilience, motivation, and true self-worth.

This guide was created for parents, caregivers, and professionals who want to shift everyday language in ways that make a lasting difference. Inside you’ll find:
✔️ Research-based insights on encouragement vs. praise
✔️ Simple rules of thumb for building authentic self-esteem
✔️ A bank of encouraging phrases you can start using right away
✔️ Real-life practice scenarios for home, school, or clinical settings

💡 Ways this helps connection: You’ll feel confident using language that empowers children, celebrates growth, and strengthens trust in your relationship.

📥 Available now in our Resource Library (link in bio!)

✨ Every purchase supports our Whole Child. Whole City. initiative, providing free counseling sessions for underserved families in Austin. 💛

01/09/2026

🚪 Enrollment is closing soon!

This is your friendly reminder that registration for Introduction to Child-Centered Play Therapy with Sarah Agarwal, Ph.D, LPC, RPT™, NCC ends on January 22, 2026 — and we’d love to have you with us.

This training brings together thoughtful clinicians, educators, and helpers who are passionate about play therapy. Together, we’ll slow down, learn, and connect through reflection and play.

💫 You’ll leave with:
•Participants will be able to describe the core principles, theoretical foundations, and goals of Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT).
•Participants will be able to explain how Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT) principles guide therapeutic interactions with children.
•Participants will be able to demonstrate reflective responding in Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT).
•Participants will be able to demonstrate limit setting (using the A-C-T model) in Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT).
•Participants will be able to demonstrate tracking behavior in Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT) to facilitate children’s self-expression and self-direction.
•Participants will be able to apply CCPT principles to real-world scenarios by identifying appropriate play therapy responses, discussing common challenges, and reflecting on how CCPT can support children’s emotional growth in various settings.

📆 Date: January 23, 2026
⏰ Time: 9am-4pm CST
Ensemble Therapy
4210 Spicewood Springs Rd, Suite 203
Austin, Texas 78759

Seats are almost full — save your spot before registration closes! 🌿

This training will provide 6 CE Credits. Ensemble Therapy is an Approved Provider for the Association for Play Therapy (APT), Approved Provider 23-706.

💛 We’re committed to accessibility: A reduced rate is available for the duration of enrollment for our community members who are students, Black, Indigenous, or people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, those living with disabilities, experiencing financial hardship, or who have been impacted by systemic inequity.

👉 Click the link in our bio to register and join us!

❌ Need to cancel? ❌ Email hello@ensemblelearningcenter.com

01/08/2026

🌼 It’s here! Registration is officially open for An Affirmative Framework for the Neurodivergent Child in Play Therapy!

Join Amanda Yoder de la Llata, LPC, LCPC, RPT for an engaging workshop on An Affirmative Framework for the Neurodivergent Child in Play Therapy — designed for play therapists, counselors, and helping professionals who want to deepen their work with children and families.

This training is designed for therapists in agency, private practice, and school settings, who are interested in learning more about Neurodiverget child clients (with main focus on Dyslexics, ADHDers and Austistics) in play therapy. This training will focus on identifying ways neurodivergent children present in play therapy as well as ways to best serve this population. Additionally, participants will enhance their knowledge of play therapy techniques and additional support systems that should be put in place to support this population

💫 In this interactive training, you’ll learn to:
•Define 5 terms often used to describe Neurodivergent play therapy clients including: Neurodiverse vs. Neurodivergent, Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria, Pervasive Demand Avoidance(Pervasive Drive for Autonomy).
•Name the 3 extra sensory systems and identify 1 example of each in a play therapy situation.
•Identify at least 1 other member of a client's “team” in addition to play therapy.
•Identify how these outside services will enhance the effects of play therapy.

📆 Date: March 13, 2026
⏰ Time: 9am - 12:30pm
Ensemble Therapy
4210 Spicewood Springs Rd, Suite 203
Austin, Texas 78759

This training will provide 3 CE Credits. Ensemble Therapy is an Approved Provider for the Association for Play Therapy (APT), Approved Provider 23-706.

💛 We’re committed to accessibility: A reduced rate is available for the duration of enrollment for our community members who are students, Black, Indigenous, or people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, those living with disabilities, experiencing financial hardship, or who have been impacted by systemic inequity.

👉 Click the link in our bio to register and join us!

❌ Need to cancel? ❌ Email hello@ensemblelearningcenter.com

01/07/2026

We asked A.B. Parris, LCSW, RPT™ and Kamini Verma, LCSW-S, RPT-S™ what inspired this upcoming workshop — Increasing Inclusivity in Play Therapy Spaces: Exploring Gender Identity & Sexual Orientation — and loved their response:

”You’ll walk away from this presentation knowing more about the affirming vocabulary and experience of LGBTQIA2S+ youth and their families, feeling empowered and with an increased capability to LGBTQIA2S+ support youth and families, doing affirming play therapy and continued exploration of internal privilege and biases.”

This session is designed to help you explore play therapy in a way that feels accessible, grounded, and immediately applicable to your clinical work.

•Identify personal privilege, bias, and intersecting identities and analyze their influence on the therapeutic relationship and play therapy process with LGBTQIA2S+ kids, teens and their families.
•Explain the importance of inclusive and identity-affirming approaches and describe how play therapy interventions can foster emotional safety, self-expression, and resilience among LGBTQIA2S+ clients.
•Demonstrate an understanding of best practices related to Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression (SOGIE) in play therapy with kids and teens.
•Discuss an individual plan for continued self-reflection and professional development to expand cultural humility and competence in SOGIE-inclusive play therapy practice.

📆 Date: Saturday, February 28, 2026
⏰ Time: 11:30am-2:30pm CT
Ensemble Therapy

4210 Spicewood Springs Rd, Suite 203
Austin, Texas 78759

This training will provide 3 CE Credits. Ensemble Therapy is an Approved Provider for the Association for Play Therapy (APT), Approved Provider 23-706.

💛 We’re committed to accessibility: A reduced rate is available for the duration of enrollment for our community members who are students, Black, Indigenous, or people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, those living with disabilities, experiencing financial hardship, or who have been impacted by systemic inequity.

👉 Click the link in our bio to register and join us!

❌ Need to cancel? ❌ Email hello@ensemblelearningcenter.com

01/06/2026

Supporting teens in navigating friendships, communication, boundaries, and connection isn’t just important — it’s essential. This workshop offers caregivers and professionals practical, developmentally grounded tools to strengthen how we guide teens through the ups and downs of relationships with empathy and confidence. 💛

💫 Expect to:
•Discuss effective communication strategies to initiate and maintain open conversations with teens about relationships.
•Identify respectful and controlling dating behaviors in teen relationships and recognize warning signs of unhealthy relationships.
•Define Teen Dating Violence, discuss statistics, and respond supportively to disclosures.
•Identify prevention resources that promote healthy relationships and prevent dating abuse.

📆 Date: February 6, 2026
⏰ Time: 12-1pm CT
Live Webinar via Google Meet

Early Rate Ends January 16, 2026
Enrollment Closes February 5, 2026

💛 We’re committed to accessibility: A reduced rate is available for the duration of enrollment for our community members who are students, Black, Indigenous, or people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, those living with disabilities, experiencing financial hardship, or who have been impacted by systemic inequity.

👉 Click the link in our bio to register and join us!

❌ Need to cancel? ❌ Email hello@ensemblelearningcenter.com Cancellations made 14+ days before the session receive a 50% refund; cancellations within 14 days of the session or no-shows are non-refundable. If we are the ones to cancel, full refunds will be issued.

01/05/2026

🌟 Spotlight on Claudia Ocampo LPC-S, RPT-S™, RST-C/T! 🌟

We’re thrilled to welcome Claudia Ocampo LPC-S, RPT-S™, RST-C/T to Ensemble Learning Center as the facilitator for "Themes that Talk: A Trauma-Informed Tapestry of Play Therapy Themes" — a workshop designed to explore play therapy practices through both clinical insight and authentic human connection.

💫 In this upcoming workshop, you’ll learn how to:
•Use play therapy themes to strengthen the therapist–child relationship by enhancing therapeutic attunement, empathy, responsiveness, and safety.
•Analyze how symbolic play therapy elements, metaphor and character roles contribute to the emergence and evolution of play themes.
•Evaluate the clinical significance of recurring play therapy themes to inform therapeutic interventions needed that foster healing.
•Formulate culturally responsive and trauma-informed interpretations of play therapy themes that honor client identity and lived experiences.
•Recognize how trauma activation, dissociation, and nervous-system cues show up within thematic play sequences.
•Explore advanced interventions that therapeutically address dominant and recurring play therapy themes in the playroom.
•Explain the clinical meaning of play therapy themes through a developmental, attachment, and neurobiological lens.

📆 Date: February 20, 2026
⏰ Time: 9am - 4:30pm CT
Online or at Ensemble Therapy
Northwest Office Location
4210 Spicewood Springs Rd, Suite 203
Austin, Texas 78759

This training will provide 6 CE Credits. Ensemble Therapy is an Approved Provider for the Association for Play Therapy (APT), Approved Provider 23-706.

💛 We’re committed to accessibility: A reduced rate is available for the duration of enrollment for our community members who are students, Black, Indigenous, or people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, those living with disabilities, experiencing financial hardship, or who have been impacted by systemic inequity.

👉 Click the link in our bio to register and join us!

❌ Need to cancel? ❌ Email hello@ensemblelearningcenter.com

01/02/2026

✨ Something exciting is on the calendar! ✨
What if support didn’t start with fixing?
What if differences weren’t something to correct — but something to understand?
Affirmation. Difference. Belonging.
Any guesses what we’re exploring next? 💭🧠

We can’t wait to share our next workshop—An Affirmative Framework for the Neurodivergent Child in Play Therapy—led by the incredible Amanda Yoder de la Llata, LPC, LCPC, RPT.

This training will help you reconnect with what drew you to this work in the first place: curiosity, play, and compassion in the therapy room. Whether you’re looking to deepen your skills or simply refill your professional cup, this one’s for you.

💫 You’ll walk away able to:
•Define 5 terms often used to describe Neurodivergent play therapy clients including: Neurodiverse vs. Neurodivergent, Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria, Pervasive Demand Avoidance(Pervasive Drive for Autonomy).
•Name the 3 extra sensory systems and identify 1 example of each in a play therapy situation.
•Identify at least 1 other member of a client's “team” in addition to play therapy.
•Identify how these outside services will enhance the effects of play therapy.

📆Mark your calendar for March 13, 2026 at 9:30am - 12:30pm
Ensemble Therapy
4210 Spicewood Springs Rd, Suite 203
Austin, Texas 78759

This training will provide 3 CE Credits. Ensemble Therapy is an Approved Provider for the Association for Play Therapy (APT), Approved Provider 23-706. Play Therapy credit is available to mental health professionals and graduate students in a mental health program.

💛 We’re committed to accessibility: A reduced rate is available for the duration of enrollment for our community members who are students, Black, Indigenous, or people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, those living with disabilities, experiencing financial hardship, or who have been impacted by systemic inequity.

👉 Click the link in our bio to register and join us!

❌ Need to cancel? ❌ Email hello@ensemblelearningcenter.com

01/02/2026

⏰ Early rate ends today!

There’s still time to join us for Introduction to Child-Centered Play Therapy with Sarah Agarwal, Ph.D, LPC, RPT™, NCC. Discover the power of play as a pathway to healing and growth! This interactive training introduces the core principles and techniques of Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT) — a developmentally responsive approach that honors the child’s natural ability to express, explore, and resolve challenges through play. Whether you’re a counseling intern, educator, or community professional, this workshop offers a supportive and experiential introduction to building strong, empathetic relationships with children through play and CCPT.

💫 You’ll gain insight and strategies to:
•Participants will be able to describe the core principles, theoretical foundations, and goals of CCPT.
•Participants will be able to explain how CCPT principles guide therapeutic interactions with children.
•Participants will be able to demonstrate reflective responding in CCPT.
•Participants will be able to demonstrate limit setting (using the A-C-T model) in CCPT.
•Participants will be able to demonstrate tracking behavior in CCPT to facilitate children’s self-expression and self-direction.
•Participants will be able to apply CCPT principles to real-world scenarios by identifying appropriate play therapy responses, discussing common challenges, and reflecting on how it can support children’s emotional growth in various settings.

📆 Date: January 23, 2026
⏰ Time: 9am-4pm CST
Ensemble Therapy
Northwest Office Location
4210 Spicewood Springs Rd, Suite 203
Austin, Texas 78759

This training will provide 6 CE Credits. Ensemble Therapy is an Approved Provider for the Association for Play Therapy (APT), Approved Provider 23-706.

💛 We’re committed to accessibility: A reduced rate is available for the duration of enrollment for our community members who are students, Black, Indigenous, or people of color, members of the LGBTQ+ community, those living with disabilities, experiencing financial hardship, or who have been impacted by systemic inequity.

👉 Click the link in our bio to register and join us!

01/01/2026

🌼 It’s here! Registration is officially open for Increasing Inclusivity in Play Therapy Spaces: Exploring Gender Identity & Sexual Orientation. Join A.B. Parris, LCSW, RPT™ and Kamini Verma, LCSW-S, RPT-S™ for an engaging workshop that invites play therapists to examine how identity, culture, and personal bias influence the therapeutic relationship with children, teens and families. Through reflective discussion and case-based learning, participants will explore inclusive approaches that promote emotional safety, authenticity, and resilience within the playroom. Emphasis will be placed on integrating best practices related to diverse identities and culturally responsive interventions. Attendees will leave with practical tools for continued self-reflection and professional growth in cultivating inclusive, developmentally appropriate play therapy spaces for all children and adolescents.

💫 In this interactive training, you’ll learn to:
•Identify personal privilege, bias, and intersecting identities and analyze their influence on the therapeutic relationship and play therapy process with LGBTQIA2S+ kids, teens and their families.
•Explain the importance of inclusive and identity-affirming approaches and describe how play therapy interventions can foster emotional safety, self-expression, and resilience among LGBTQIA2S+ clients.
•Demonstrate an understanding of best practices related to Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression (SOGIE) in play therapy with kids and teens.
•Discuss an individual plan for continued self-reflection and professional development to expand cultural humility and competence in SOGIE-inclusive play therapy practice.

📆 Date: Saturday, February 28, 2026
⏰ Time: 11:30am-2:30pm CT
Ensemble Therapy
Northwest Office Location
4210 Spicewood Springs Rd, Suite 203
Austin, Texas 78759

This training will provide 3 CE Credits. Ensemble Therapy is an Approved Provider for the Association for Play Therapy (APT), Approved Provider 23-706.

👉 Click the link in our bio to register and join us!

❌ Need to cancel? ❌ Email hello@ensemblelearningcenter.com

12/31/2025

🌼 Join Claudia for a playful, high-energy, and deeply meaningful 6-hour training designed to help therapists finally understand what’s really happening beneath the surface of children’s play. Whether you’re watching a dinosaur destroy a city, a child line up toys with laser precision, or a teddy bear rescue mission unfold, this training will teach you how to confidently decode the emotional, developmental, and relational themes driving the play.

Through real vignettes, vivid imagery, and humor-filled examples from the playroom, you’ll learn how to track themes across sessions, communicate your insights to parents, and use thematic patterns to enrich treatment planning with accuracy and heart. Get ready to expand your clinical intuition, sharpen your observation skills, and discover the treasure trove of meaning hidden in everyday play. You’ll never see the playroom the same way again.

💫 In this interactive training, you’ll learn to:
•Use play therapy themes to strengthen the therapist–child relationship by enhancing therapeutic attunement, empathy, responsiveness, and safety.
•Analyze how symbolic play therapy elements, metaphor and character roles contribute to the emergence and evolution of play themes.
•Evaluate the clinical significance of recurring play therapy themes to inform therapeutic interventions needed that foster healing.
•Formulate culturally responsive and trauma-informed interpretations of play therapy themes that honor client identity and lived experiences.
•Recognize how trauma activation, dissociation, and nervous-system cues show up within thematic play sequences.
•Explore advanced interventions that therapeutically address dominant and recurring play therapy themes in the playroom.
•Explain the clinical meaning of play therapy themes through a developmental, attachment, and neurobiological lens.

📆 Date: February 20, 2026
⏰ Time: 9am - 4:30pm CT
Online or at Ensemble Therapy

This training will provide 6 CE Credits. Ensemble Therapy is an Approved Provider for the Association for Play Therapy (APT), Approved Provider 23-706.

👉 Click the link in our bio to register and join us!

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