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Welcome to the Kentucky Association for Play Therapy!

The Mission of the Kentucky Association for Play Therapy is to provide support and training to mental health professionals who facilitate healing for children, families and communities experiencing emotional and relational problems through the promotion/use of play and play therapy.


"The Power of Play Will Blow You Away"

Play is a natural-fun-creative-spontaneous-necessary experience for children and adults to develop healthy lives. The capacity to play appears to be built into our biological makeup as we can hardly restrain or be restrained from some form of play in our lives. And the power of play to enhance children's abilities to learn about, prepare for and communicate with their internal and external world is awesome.

Play Therapy

itself refers to a wide range of therapeutic methods which make use of the power and value of play for children and adults. Play therapy with a child or adult is more than just using play. It is using play and other expressive means in a systematic way to elicit the child's own inner resources to solve problems or discomfort.

The Play Therapist assists the child to find solutions as the child experiences the safety and freedom to play in his/her own way. Play therapists also recognize parents, community and the context of the child as essential parts of the healing process and may use play therapy approaches with those elements as well.

For much more detailed information on play therapy and play therapists you may choose to go to a4pt.org or use our contact information.

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A Message from the President

I don’t know about you but I have been on overdrive for the last couple months—at work AND at home! It has been so extreme that I recently remarked to my husband “If my memory gets so bad I forget the kids’ names, just go ahead and check me in (to the hospital).” Is it the time of year….Are we anticipating the coming holidays and trying to just get one more thing done before we have to shift focus to all those upcoming events? Or is the fall foliage just so beautiful that we end up daydreaming away more time at this time of year and then have to try to make up the time? I don’t know but I will try to bring more mindfulness into my day if you will!

I came back from Atlanta (the APT annual conference) with a renewed enthusiasm, revitalized repertoire and reenergized certainty that play therapy is the first choice when treating children. Kentucky had at least fourteen professionals attending the conference and, at one time or another, I spent time with most of them... [READ MORE BY DOWNLOADING THE CURRENT NEWSLETTER]

Jane Prouty, President