Play 2 Learn

02/20/2026

Hello friends! Check out this really neat magazine article written about our CEO, Monica Fyfe, about her company Play 2 Learn, her journey, and her Children’s Book Series “Welcome to Petsville” with Voyage LA Magazine! Such a kind honor to be featured! 😎

Today we'd like to introduce you to Monica Fyfe. Monica Fyfe Hi Monica, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story. I began working with autistic kids while I was an undergraduate student at UCLA at 19 years old. Dr. Ivar Lovaas (rest in peace) was one of the pr

02/11/2026

Monica Fyfe is presenting the next professional webinar, only $30 for 2 CES, for Play Therapists and APT, and 2 CEU’s for the BACB.

Sign up today at:
https://ourvillage.ce-go.com/social-navigation-support-through-group-play-therapy-for-neurodivergent-youth

02/04/2026

Monica Fyfe was honored to speak on “Coping with Stress in High School” to this amazing group of teenagers in our Southbay! ❤️
We had a fun time, filled with hands-on experiential & sensory inspired activities, and take home gifts, to spread the hope and healing forward! Thank you NCL South Bay class of 2028  for the kind invitation to have me speak at your group event! 🌸😎

01/11/2026

We still have a few spots left in our GIRL’S social navigation skills group at Play 2 Learn, for ages 8-11 years-old! 😍 It begins Jan. 17th and runs for 8 Saturdays! Please email Monica Fyfe at:monica@play2learnfamilycenters.com for a free screening today! 😎😃

12/10/2025

In honor of the holiday season, author Monica Fyfe is lowering prices this December and is sharing some great holiday deals for you to enjoy! 🎄🤗

Go to amazon.com to purchase her therapeutic children’s book series, entitled “Welcome to Petsville”  including her 3 special books entitled, “Lizzy’s New School of Fish,” “Tumbling Towers,” and “Sibling Shenanigans.”  available as e-books and paperback books. And please leave an honest review on Amazon, so more folks can find these books, when in need.

Perfect as a gift, 🎁 for your kids or grandkids, for your own bibliotherapy library, for your classroom, for your child counseling and aba offices and clinics, or for your colleagues & friends, this holiday season! ⭐️

These books are beautiful and engaging for kids, with real world, relatable stories and kid-problems, and each book ends with caregiver tips, to extend some help, with a Fin, or a Paw, after the story ends. 🥰

Enjoy and stay tuned for more fun promotions, and special activities that festure these special pets, and the human families they help and love! 💗 

https://bit.ly/lizzysnewschooloffish

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11/26/2025

Play 2 Learn wishes to thank our amazing team of clinicians including Aimee, Marisa, Paula and Monica! We appreciate all the good work you do and we are grateful for you! And we want to wish our dearest clients, families and South Bay community friends a healthy and peaceful Thanksgiving holiday ahead! Thank you for your trust and confidence in our good work for families, all year through! xoxo

11/03/2025

Play 2 Learn will be at our community's "Fall Fest" with Beach Cities Health District on Saturday, November 8th until 1:00pm! Bring your kids for the fun at Adventureplex and stop by and say "Hello!" We will be sharing about our upcoming Kid 2 Kid social skills (ages 4-12) groups, our counseling services and our PEERS for Preschooler's groups (ages 4-6), starting in the New Year! Hope to see you there! xoxo

10/26/2025

Halloween is one of our favorite times to celebrate and practice some wonderful, organic lessons, in our “Kid 2 Kid” play & social skills group, at Play 2 Learn of Torrance! 🎃🥰

it is a great time to practice, “assertive” communication style, with voice and body, versus “passive or aggressive” choices of communication styles. Trick-or-treating in our offices presents a naturally reinforcing opportunity to practice the skills!

We also love to embed some priming and desensitization of spooky sounds, music, and images, to help our kids do their best navigating their natural environments! 👍

We also love co-regulation & focus activities, such as: Nails in a pumpkin, teamwork skeleton scavenger hunts & puzzles, community crafts.

And our favorite “Costume Parade” where group members practice theory of mind and perspective-taking skills, describing their awesome costume characters, their strengths and weaknesses and powers, and their stories to their peers! 😀🥰

09/12/2025

Hello wonderful families, our KIDS groups are starting soon, and we are in search of some great KID mentor volunteers! Boys and girls ages 6 - 9 years old. Mentors should have good verbal language skills, have good play and sportsmanship skills, follow directions from adults, and be open and empathic to others! Benefits of volunteering for kids is that it builds their own self-confidence, builds their leadership skills, teaches them about giving back, and they learn about diversity awareness and how to be strength-affirming with peers. Email Monica for an application at: monica@play2learnfamilycenters.com
Classes start this Saturday in Torrance! Thank you! xoxo

09/03/2025

Today is the day, when Play 2 Learn's owner, Monica Fyfe, has published her latest children’s book! "It has dropped today!”😎

This book is entitled, “Lizzy’s New School of Fish” and is the 3rd in my therapeutic children’s series called “Welcome to Petsville!”

This beautiful story not only helps build social confidence and navigation skills for a first day of school, but offers modeling and practical tips for any child on how to make a new friend in any situation, water or land! 😃🐟

This book is very special to Monica Fyfe, MFT, BCBA, RPT-S and our entire clinical team of Play therapists and Behavior therapists, as it is inspired by the PEERS social skills program from the UCLA PEERS Clinic. And it is sincerely dedicated to one of Monica's favorite professional mentors, Dr. Elizabeth Laugeson! 🥰

Go to amazon.com to be one of the first to get a copy! It is both available in PRINT or an e-book Kindle edition!

And if you could, please take a kind moment to leave an honest review on Amazon, it would be greatly appreciated! this way, more children, families, and providers in need can swing by and catch this book, a bit to see of awesome children’s literature and bibliotherapy! 😃😃👍🐟🐟🐠

https://bit.ly/lizzysnewschooloffish

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08/26/2025

It was an honor to teach the graduate class “Play Therapy and Trauma” at Antioch University, Los Angeles. The next generation of clinicians and child advocates are amazing, what a fantastic cohort of talented students! 💕😃