Become Certified in the Play Prescription® Method

"I thought this certification was about learning play therapy skills for kids. What I didn't expect was how practical it would be — and how much the inner child work would transform my practice."

Most parents have this deep desire to give their kids what they didn't have.

Yes — this includes material things, but it goes much deeper than this. I'm talking about the love, care and emotional support they didn't receive. The safety, the stability and the opportunities they never had.

So many parents genuinely want to do better for their child. So they read parenting books, follow advice, try and put their child first.

Find themselves either sitting on the bathroom floor crying, or wondering why this feels so hard, or if this will ever get better and the constant unsolicited advice from others makes them fear their worst nightmare has come true...

That they are messing up their child.

But the responses they fear feel deeply ingrained, almost automatic. And no amount of love, knowledge or intention can fix this.

Cycle-breaking doesn't happen through more knowledge or advice alone. Although parents want to do better, they have not experienced better. And then they try to do better by using the same shame driven approach that creates the cycles in the first place.

Cycle breaking requires new experiences. Less shame, more compassion. Less blame, more curiosity. Less rigid rules/shoulds and more space to experiment.

This is where play therapy principles can be so powerful. Play becomes therapeutic when driven by a philosophy that creates the conditions needed for deep change and breaking cycles.

If you work with kids and/or parents, you see cycles play out everyday. And yet most trainings focus on the surface level stuff — behaviour management and strategies — rather than getting to the root conditions and then creating the therapeutic environment where patterns actually shift.

This Certification is for you if you:

What makes this framework unique?

The Play Prescription® Method — Created by Dr Sam Casey — takes cycle-breaking, healing and growth outside the therapy room. Utilising the wisdom of play therapy, psychology and child development — into a practical framework, that adapts to you, your role and the kids/parents you work with.

This isn't just another professional training.
It's a practical method that transforms your personal and professional practice.

The reality of this work

All parents are not parenting from their adult self. When parents interact with their kids, their own childhood wounds are triggered.

Like when their child has a tantrum, this triggers their own beliefs about being a 'good parent' raising a 'good child' will surface.

Or even when their child is upset, the parent often feels guilty, like they need to 'fix' it.

But we are not immune to this as professionals. We also have 'default' beliefs about kids and parents that get triggered when working with families, no matter how much training or qualifications you hold.

This certification prepares you for all both, supporting yourself and parents with reflective processes — while giving you practical tools to prescribe play that addresses the child's underlying need.