The Supervisor's Playroom: Expanding Your Practice Across Culture and Screen
June 18, 2026 |Live Zoom Webinar
Join us for a transformative Play Therapy Supervision Day!
This unique, immersive experience is designed for play therapy supervisors-in-training and credentialed supervisors seeking renewal and inspiration.
We’ll bring supervision to life through meaningful conversations, rich case consultations, and experiential activities that sharpen clinical skills and deepen ethical awareness. Through interactive exercises, we’ll unpack real-world ethical dilemmas, explore the complexities of clinical practice, and strengthen our capacity to offer attuned, culturally responsive supervision.
Whether you're just starting your supervision journey or are a seasoned guide to others, this collaborative space is built to support your growth. Expect to walk away with practical tools, renewed insight, and a stronger sense of professional resilience.
Because how we supervise matters. Let’s grow together in the art, ethics, and heart of play therapy supervision.
Morning Session:
Supervising Play Therapy in Virtual and Digital Spaces
As virtual and digitally integrated play therapy practices continue to expand, supervisors are increasingly called upon to guide play therapists in training in therapeutic spaces that look and feel fundamentally different from traditional in-person work. Supervising play therapy in virtual and digital contexts requires not only clinical expertise, but also an intentional awareness of how technology, culture, bias, and perspective shape both therapeutic and supervisory processes.
This training led by Dr. Rachel Altvater (Psy.D., RPT-S™) is designed to support play therapy supervisors in strengthening their competence, confidence, and reflective capacity when supervising play therapy delivered through virtual platforms and digital environments. Emphasis will be placed on identifying and illuminating potential gaps in awareness that can arise in these contexts, such as assumptions about technology use, comfort levels, cultural influences, and generational differences.
The training will highlight the central role of the play therapy supervisory relationship, emphasizing safety, attunement, and collaboration as supervisees navigate complex clinical work in virtual and technology-integrated settings. Practical guidance will be provided for structuring virtual supervision, offering developmentally attuned feedback, and supporting supervisees’ clinical growth.Play therapy supervisors will leave with concrete strategies, supervision exercises, and guiding frameworks to support ethical, culturally responsive, and developmentally informed supervision in virtual and digital spaces.
Morning Learning Objectives
1. Analyze supervisory considerations unique to play therapy delivered in virtual and digital contexts, including the impact of technology, culture, and perspective on clinical oversight and decision-making.
2. Apply reflective and perspective-taking strategies to identify and address supervisory gaps in awareness and assumptions that may arise when supporting supervisees practicing play therapy in technology-integrated environments.
3. Demonstrate supervision strategies that guide supervisees in the ethical and intentional use of digital tools within virtual and digitally integrated play therapy practice.
Afternoon Session:
Culturally Responsive Play Therapy Supervision: Power, Language, and Belonging in the
Supervisory Room
Play therapy supervision is where clinical skill, power, culture, and ethics intersect. When you supervise clinicians working with culturally diverse and multilingual families, your supervisory stance shapes whether therapy becomes a place of belonging or another place where families feel translated, minimized, or misunderstood.
This webinar with Liliana Baylon, LMFT-S, RPT-S, positions cultural humility as a core supervision competency rather than an add-on. You will learn a practical, supervision- ready framework for naming power and positionality in the supervisory relationship, strengthening cultural accountability and curiosity, and attending to language and meaning-making in clinical decision-making. You will also practice rupture-repair supervision moves that address cultural misattunements early, before they become clinical drift, alliance rupture, or ethical risk.
Through vignettes, guided reflection, and skills rehearsal, you will strengthen your ability to help play therapists adapt interventions to family values, migration stressors, and relational context while preserving play therapy’s developmental and attachment-centered
foundations.
Afternoon Learning Objectives
1. Identify at least three ways power, privilege, and positionality can shape play therapy supervision with culturally diverse and multilingual families.
2. Differentiate cultural humility from cultural competence in supervision by describing at least two supervisor behaviors that reflect each approach.
3. Apply a structured cultural and language attunement map in supervision to guide case conceptualization and treatment decisions, including at least two strategies to strengthen meaning-making and alliance across languages and cultures.
4. Demonstrate at least two supervision interventions that support rupture repair after cultural misattunements, using a provided vignette.
5. Adapt one play therapy intervention (directive or nondirective) to align with a family’s cultural values and context and document the clinical
Details & Registration
Date: June 18, 2025
Location: Online Zoom Training (MT Timezone)
Pricing:
$175 Full Professional Rate
$130 Mid-Level Professional Rate
$85 Student / Accessible Professional Rate
*Pricing includes CE Certificate
Schedule:
8:45
Check In
9:00
Training Begins
10:30
15 Minute Break
12:15-1:15
Lunch Break
3:15
15 Minute Break
4:30
Training Ends
What if I can't make the training live? We've got you covered! With this event, you can register to attend live or for the recording only and watch it whenever it works for you. All registrants will receive access to the recordings, which will be available for 30 days.
Of Note: If you are attending the online training live, it is required that you have your video on and are actively participating in order to earn the offered CEs. Please do not engage in other activities while in this training including driving, driving through for that coffee fix, or rearranging your closet - this training requires your attention and engagement. You will receive an email with the Zoom link and any handouts the day prior to the training.
This training will provide 6 CE Credits (for those attending by recording, this requires successful completion of a post-test). A New Hope Therapy Center, our sister organization and partner for trainings and workshops, is an Approved Provider for the Association for Play Therapy (APT) - Approved Provider 20-631. A New Hope Academy has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7816. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. A New Hope Academy is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Presenters
Liliana Baylon
Liliana Baylon has a master’s degree in Counseling & Marriage, Family, & Child Therapy as well as an MBA from University of Phoenix in Colorado. Since entering the therapy field, Liliana has developed an interest and niche in treating children and families who have experienced trauma, abuse, and multicultural issues from an attachment lens. To better treat these populations, Liliana has received training in different modalities, some of which she is a trained educator.
Liliana is an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, Registered Play Therapist Supervisor, Synergetic Play Therapy Consultant, EFT Supervisor, EMDR Certified, TheraPlay Level 1, Independent Facilitator of the Becoming a Love and Logic Parent Curriculum, Bring Baby Home Gottman Trained Educator, Gottman Seven Principles Program Educator, Completed Level 2 Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy.Liliana’s brings a unique cultural lens into her therapy and supervision sessions. Liliana is passionate about working with fellow mental health professionals to embrace curiosity, inspiration, and discover meaning to rise to their full potential from attachment and cultural lenses. Liliana offers workshops in the field of Mental Health and Cultural Opportunity for Psychotherapist, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Teachers and Consultations for Agencies, Schools, Private Practices, Mental Health Centers, & Non-Profits in English, and Spanish.
Dr. Rachel Altvater
Dr. Rachel Altvater (Psy.D., RPT-S™) is a multi-award winning, pioneering expert, leader, researcher, international trainer, author, and supervisor in the field of play therapy. She is a licensed psychologist and holds national certifications as a Registered Play Therapist–Supervisor™ and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. She is the owner of Creative Psychological Health Services, past president of the Maryland/DC Association for Play Therapy, editorial advisory board member for the International Journal of Play Therapy®, clinical advisory board member for PlaySpace, and clinical consultant for Hopscotch.
Dr. Altvater authored the book Perspective: Contemplating the Complexities of Our Realities, published her research in the International Journal of Play Therapy® on technology use in play therapy, and is a contributing author in numerous scholarly texts on implementing digital technologies in play therapy practice.
