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WELCOME TO PENNSYLVANIA ASSOCIATION FOR PLAY THERAPY
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2025 PA APT Annual Conference
APRIL 25-26, 2025
State College, PA
PA APT would like to extend a heartfelt
Thank You to Dr. Robert Jason Grant
Dr. Grant thank you for the inspiring and informative presentation at the PA APT Conference. Your insights made a meaningful impact and left us all energized and motivated.
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We also sincerely thank all the vendors who joined us — your support, expertise, and enthusiasm helped make the conference a great success. We appreciate the vital role you play and look forward to seeing you every year!
Thank You to all the conference attendees, your energy, commitment to learning and engagement made the conference a vibrant and memorable experience.
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We are grateful to each of you for making this event such a success and look forward to many more opportunities to grow and connect together!
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SAVE THE DATE
Dr. Terry Kottman
PA APT Conference April 24-25, 2026
State College, PA
We are thrilled to welcome Terry Kottman, Ph.D., RPT-S, LMHC. Dr. Kottman founded The Encouragement Zone and developed Adlerian Play Therapy, an approach to working with children families, and adults that combines the ideas and techniques of In dividual Psychology with Play Therapy. She is the author of Play Therapy: Basics and Beyond, co-author (with Kristin Meany-Walen) of Partners in Play:An Adlerian Approach to Play Therapy (3rd ed.) and Doing Play Therapy: From Building the Relationship to Facilitating Change,along with several other books. In 2024, she won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Play Therapy, and in 2017, she won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Iowa Association for Play Therapy. She is also Jacob's mom and Rick's wife, the best accomplishments of her lifetime of striving.
More information coming Fall 2025, Registration opens February 2026
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