Becoming a Registered Play Therapist
Want to learn more about becoming a Registered Play Therapist TM ? Visit APT’s Credentialing Homepage today!
Play Therapy Job Opportunities
IAPT is offering a space for agencies to promote job opportunities specific to play therapy. Postings can be listed for 2 weeks ($25) or 4 weeks ($50) through Venmo: @IAPT. Job listings will be posted once payment is received and will be removed after the contracted time period.
Agencies interested in listing job opportunities specific to play therapy can complete the form at this link.
*Beginning January 1st, 2020, all supervision hours for RPT/S credentials must be completed with an RPT-S. Please contact us with any questions or concerns at: board@iowaa4pt.org.
Play Therapy Supplies
A listing of our favorite play therapy suppliers.
- Child Therapy Toys: Source for play therapy toys, books, games, sensory toys, puppets and creative materials.
- Discovery Toys: Variety of hands-on toys to teach, play, and inspire.
- Golden Path Games: Games designed by two licensed social workers who are also registered play therapists.
- Happytown: Play therapy card decks.
- Jurassic Sand: Specialty sand for sandtrays.
- Kennedy’s Sandplay Minis: Specialty handcrafted and 3D printed sandtray miniatures.
- Magnetic Poetry: This website describes how to adapt the magnetic poetry materials to use in play therapy.
- Many Miniatures: Lots of miniatures.
- Meebie: Stuffed toy with a variety of facial expressions and accessories that the child can change.
- Momma Owl’s Minis: Quality sandtray figures.
- Olander Earthworks: Patterned spheres for sand tray.
- The Oriental Trading Company: A place to shop for toys and games for children.
- Ron’s Trays: Specialty sandtrays.
- Sand Play Etc.: Sandtrays, sandtray stands, and miniatures.
- Self Esteem Shop: Books, toys and games for use by play therapists, parents and children.
- Ther-A-Play Products: Books, miniatures, games for therapists.
- Toys of the Trade: A place to find lots of different miniatures for your sandtray.
- Transpersonal SandPlay Therapy Center: Sandplay (Margaret Lowenfeld) products and resources.
- Virtual Sandtray: Portable alternative to traditional sandtray that can be used in face-to-face sessions, screen shared, or in remote sessions. Available for iPads and iPhones.