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VonOstir Innovation Services, PLLC

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VonOstir Innovation Services, PLLC

Founded in 2020 to serve various diverse communities through counseling and paychological assessment in FL, MN, PA and VA

Planting the seeds of transformation and growth! We are a comprehensive pediatric mental health practice offering Play Therapy services. We offer Social Emotional Learning toys through https://www.discoverytoys.com/pws/innovationplays/tabs/home

11/19/2025

📚 Now Available: Book Study CE Course!
Transformative Expressions in Play Therapy: Affirming Care for LGBTQ+ Clients (Volume II)

🕘 6 CE Hours | 🏳️‍🌈 Seminal History (2) | Cultural Diversity (2) | Skills & Methods (2)

Are you ready to deepen your play therapy practice and provide truly affirming care to LGBTQ+ (SOGIE) youth?

This 6-hour book study course expands on Volume I and explores advanced, integrative approaches that blend theory and practice through an affirming, trauma-informed, and culturally humble lens. Explore how Adlerian, Gestalt, Ecosystemic, IFS, Child-Centered, Mindfulness, and Sand Tray modalities can support identity development, resilience, and psychological safety in LGBTQ+ clients.

🌟 What You’ll Gain:
✅ Tools for directive & non-directive identity-affirming interventions
✅ Family system strategies to reduce rejection & increase connection
✅ Techniques rooted in cultural humility, intersectionality, and narrative healing
✅ Art & sand tray methods to support grief, gender journeys, and trauma
✅ Ethics & safety strategies around disclosure, confidentiality & advocacy
This course is designed for clinicians ready to go beyond the basics—and step boldly into advocacy-informed, play-based healing with q***r and gender-diverse youth.

📘 Get the book. Take the course. Transform your practice.
🔗 Enroll now & earn 6 CE hours while expanding your capacity to empower LGBTQ+ clients through play. https://vonostir-innovation-services-llc.ce-go.com/courses

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11/18/2025

🌊 Discover Healing Through Sand-Tray Therapy 🌊

At VonOstir Innovation Services, PLLC, we offer a powerful and creative approach to mental health care. Sand-tray therapy provides a safe, nonverbal way to explore emotions, uncover deep-seated issues, and promote healing.

Through guided sessions, clients can:
✨ Express feelings without words
✨ Process trauma in a supportive environment
✨ Build insight and resilience
Your story matters—and sometimes, the sand tells it best.

📞 Contact us today to learn more or schedule a session. www.vonostir.com

11/17/2025

🎨✨ NEW ITEM ALERT! ✨🎨
Introducing V BLOX — the STEAM balancing & building art set that turns creativity into an adventure!

Unleash your inner designer as you stack, nest, and balance colorful V-shaped blocks to create eye-catching patterns and structures. From simple 2-D designs to daring 3-D builds, V BLOX grows with your child’s imagination and skill level.

📘 The included idea booklet features 29 inspiring examples, ranging from beginner-friendly to advanced creations—perfect for sparking inspiration and boosting confidence.

🌈 What’s Inside:
🔹 18 V-shaped blocks — 9 sizes, 9 vibrant colors
🔹 10 V-cut pedestal blocks for elevated designs
🔹 Idea booklet with 29 build challenges
🔹 Endless possibilities for creative exploration!

👧🧒 Ages: 5 & up

💡 Benefits:
✅ Fine motor coordination
✅ Experience the physics of balancing
✅ Explore geometric spatial relationships
✅ Visualization and observation skills
✅ Building from 2-D images
✅ Creativity boost
✅ Problem-solving practice

Bring the family together with a building set that’s as beautiful as it is brain-boosting.
V BLOX—where art, engineering, and imagination meet! Get yours today at https://www.discoverytoys.com/PWS/innovationplays/store/AM/catalog/ALL%20NEW/VBloxConstructionToy

11/16/2025

🌿 Mindfulness Sunday 🌿

Name one way you can bring mindfulness into your workspace today.

It could be as simple as:
✅ Taking three deep breaths before starting a task
✅ Pausing for a quick stretch
✅ Keeping a calming object on your desk
✅ Silencing notifications for focused work

Drop your idea in the comments—we’d love to hear how you create calm in your day! www.vonostir.com

11/13/2025

🌀 The Rotating Maze Cube is BACK! 🌀
Get ready to twist, turn, and challenge your brain like never before!

Drop the steel ball into the Initial Point and maneuver it through the 3D maze. Sounds easy? Think again! You’ll be rotating layers, shifting sides, and strategizing every move—just like the iconic colored cube puzzle, but with a surprising new twist.

🎯 Your mission: Guide the ball to the Terminal Point and release it from the cube.
🧠 Your reward: A fidget-friendly, brain-bending experience perfect for kids, teens, and adults!

✨ Includes 5 steel balls — but we recommend using one at a time for the best challenge!

💡 Benefits for Ages 8–Teen
✅ Critical thinking
✅ Problem-solving
✅ Visual perception
✅ Spatial awareness
✅ Prediction & visualization skills
✅ Hand-eye coordination
✅ Patience & frustration tolerance
✅ Focus & concentration
✅ A game where kids often have the advantage over adults
✅ An amazing alternative to screen-based “finger-friendly” devices

Whether you’re looking for stress relief, a quiet-time activity, or a family competition, the Rotating Maze Cube brings endless fun and cognitive benefits!

🔁 Twist it. Turn it. Solve it.
Ready to take on the challenge? 🎉Get yours today at https://www.discoverytoys.com/PWS/innovationplays/store/AM/catalog/ALL%20NEW/RotatingMazeCube

11/12/2025

📘✨ NEW CE BOOK STUDY! ✨📘
Transformative Expressions in Play Therapy: Affirming Care for LGBTQ+ Clients (Volume I)

💼 6 CE Non-Contact Hours
🎯 Seminal Theories • Cultural Diversity • Skills & Methods in Play Therapy
📚 Self-Paced | Deeply Affirming | Clinically Relevant

Are you ready to transform your practice and better support LGBTQ+/SOGIE youth through play therapy? This 6-hour self-paced book study, based on Transformative Expressions in Play Therapy: Working with LGBTQ+ Clients, Volume I, equips clinicians with the tools, theory, and heart needed to offer truly affirming care.

🔍 Explore topics like:
🌈 Creating inclusive play spaces
📖 Navigating the coming out process
⚖ Addressing cultural and systemic oppression
🎨 Using directive and non-directive interventions (storytelling, sand tray, expressive arts)

🧠 You’ll learn to:
✔ Define and apply the SOGIE framework
✔ Integrate the Therapeutic Powers of Play
✔ Foster cultural humility and trauma-informed care
✔ Plan ethically sound and affirming treatment

📖 Edited by Kurt W. Oster, LCSW, RPT & Margot Wilson, PhD, this volume is a groundbreaking contribution to culturally responsive play therapy.

🌐 Enroll today and take the next step in your journey toward transformative,
affirming care! https://vonostir-innovation-services-llc.ce-go.com/courses/transformative-expressions-in-play-therapy-affirming-care-for-lgbtq-clients-volume-i-book-study

11/11/2025

🧸 Play with Purpose: Building Resilience Through Play Therapy 🧠

At VonOstir Innovation Services, PLLC, we recongize that children communicate best through play. Our play therapy services are designed to help children express emotions, process experiences, and develop the resilience they need to thrive.

Through guided play, children learn to:
✨ Strengthen emotional regulation
✨ Build self-confidence
✨ Improve social skills
✨ Heal from trauma in a safe, supportive space

Let’s help your child grow emotionally strong—one play session at a time.
📞 Contact us to learn more or schedule a consultation. www.vonostir.com

11/10/2025

🎉 Great News! Your DT Favorites Are BACK! 🎉

We’re excited to announce that some of Discovery Toys’ most-loved classics have returned—just in time to spark learning, play, and imaginative fun for your little ones!

✨ Now Available Again:
🧸 Squeaker Bear – from 3 months+
🐧 Press ‘N Scoot Penguin – from 9 months+
🦖 Dino Works T-Rex – from 3 years+
🦕 Dino Works Triceratops – from 3 years+
🦉 Night Owl – from 2 years+
📚 Once Upon a Time – from 4 years+
🏴‍☠️ Ahoy, Pirate Pete – from 4 years+

Whether you’re shopping for developmental play, hands-on building fun, early learning, or storytelling adventures, there’s something here for every age and stage! Get yours today at https://www.discoverytoys.com/PWS/innovationplays/store/AM/catalog/Home?bizname=innovationplays&BusinessName=innovationplays&OrderTypeId=AM&

💛 Don’t miss your chance to add these beloved DT favorites to your collection. Grab them while they last!

11/09/2025

🌿 Mindfulness Sunday Reminder 🌿

Take a moment to pause and reconnect with your body.
✨ Stand up.
✨ Stretch your arms, legs, and back.
✨ Breathe deeply.

Now ask yourself:
How does your body feel compared to before?

Notice the difference—sometimes the smallest pause can make the biggest impact.

🧘‍♀️ Keep practicing these mindful breaks throughout your day for better focus and well-being. www.vonostir.com

11/08/2025

VonOstir Innovation Services, PLLC, has officially signed a long-term lease and will be opening our first brick-and-mortar office in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota!

Leading this new chapter is someone who has become both a trusted partner and dear colleague, Dr. Amy Carrison, LP, LADC-S, our Vice President of Psychological Services, who will head our Minnesota operations.

VonOstir Innovation Services, PLLC, has officially signed a long-term lease and will be opening our first brick-and-mortar office in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota.
Thank you to everyone who has been part of this journey. Here’s to growth, leadership, and the next exciting chapter of VonOstir Innovation Services, PLLC, where we continue to lead in play and sand tray therapies, contribute new scholarship through authorship, and elevate the standards of psychological testing.

11/07/2025

Measure-based care is not about limiting care — it’s about guiding it.
When we use data with intention, we move from guessing to knowing — turning insight into action and compassion into measurable growth.

It’s not about restriction, it’s about direction.
It’s how we ensure care is intentional, effective, and human at every step. To Learn more, visit www.vonostir.com.

11/06/2025

🚨 New Discovery Toys Are Here! 🚨

Get ready to spark creativity, logic, and fun with our brand-new collection of educational toys—perfect for kids and teens!

🧩 DINO MAZE Logic Game (7+) – Challenge your brain with this exciting maze adventure!
🔄 Rotating Maze Cube (8+ to teen) – Twist, turn, and solve for endless fun!
⚡ Light Speed Memory Games (8+) – Test your memory with 4 games in 1!
✈️ Crystal Brix 3-in-1 Light Up Aircraft (6+) – Build and light up your own aircraft!
🔍 Symmetrix Mirror Magic (6+) – Explore symmetry and patterns in a playful way!
🚧 Build & Play Construction (5+) – Assemble 3 different vehicles for hands-on learning!
🟦 V-Blox Construction Toy (5+) – Create amazing designs with colorful blocks!
✨ Learning through play has never been this exciting!

📦 Shop now and bring home the fun ➡https://www.discoverytoys.com/PWS/innovationplays/store/AM/catalog/Home?bizname=innovationplays&BusinessName=innovationplays&OrderTypeId=AM&

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1870 50th Street Suite 7
Minneapolis, MN
55077

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

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+19042904601

Website

http://www.vonostir.com/

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