Black Play Therapy

Black Play Therapy APT Approved Provider 18-532 & ACE #2031.

Providing culturally responsive mental health care and training to increase cultural awareness, empathy, competency, and responsiveness in professionals providing Mental Health treatment in the Black Community.

06/15/2026

www.blackplaytherapy.comI am willing to see what I've been taught to overlook.The most important thing we do as play therapists is bear witness to what has been done to children, and create the conditions for what has been stolen to be restored. This is both clinical work and sacred work.— Althea T. Simpson Unicorn Life Play Therapy

06/15/2026

www.blackplaytherapy.com

I am willing to see what I've been taught to overlook.

The most important thing we do as play therapists is bear witness to what has been done to children, and create the conditions for what has been stolen to be restored. This is both clinical work and sacred work.
— Althea T. Simpson

www.blackplaytherapy.com2026 Black Play Therapy SymposiumGrown Folks Recess is a playful, nostalgic celebration that lit...
05/31/2026

www.blackplaytherapy.com

2026 Black Play Therapy Symposium

Grown Folks Recess is a playful, nostalgic celebration that literally embodies the childhood experiences we want for Black children. Adults get to play, not as therapists, educators, parents, advocates, or community leaders, but simply as ourselves, free, joyful, uninhibited. We reclaim the recess, the games, the silliness that many Black children aren’t fully allowed to experience. This is childhood reclaimed, for us and for the Black children in our lives and communities.

Attire: Recess Ready – Sneakers encouraged, comfortable clothes, jerseys, 90s nostalgia welcome!

Friday Night Party Access: Included with full conference registration. Single Day registrants may purchase individual party tickets. Guest tickets are also available for purchase.

05/30/2026

Are you READY for a training experience where Play Therapy Is Magical? Send me a message to get details about joining the Unicorn Life Play Therapy Academy. The next cohort begins August 2026 offering virtual and in person training 💜🩵

05/29/2026

The 2026 Black Play Therapy Symposium is not about blame. It is about building the capacity to see what has been invisible, name what has been unnamed, and interrupt what has been automatic. July 10-11, 2026 we move from awareness to accountability.

Sign up to attend one or both days at https://blackplaytherapy.com/2026-symposium-registration/

Join me for the 2026 Black Play Therapy Symposium in Springfield VA on July 10-11th. Early Registration Ends Soon!The sc...
05/29/2026

Join me for the 2026 Black Play Therapy Symposium in Springfield VA on July 10-11th.

Early Registration Ends Soon!

The school-to-prison pipeline does not begin with a single event, it is constructed through a series of invisible decisions shaped by deeply embedded cognitive biases. At the 2026 Black Play Therapy Symposium we will make the invisible visible.

Sign up to attend one or both days at https://blackplaytherapy.com/2026-symposium-registration/

05/23/2026

Using Food Therapeutically… Ask me how and why and I will tell you food can be nurturing in therapeutic spaces, especially for children in foster care. Want to know more, ask me!

05/21/2026

The racial empathy gap is not a feeling. It's a pattern, and Black children pay the price for it every single day.

When a Black child's pain is misread as attitude, their fear is labeled defiance, and their grief is treated as a behavior problem, that is the racial empathy gap at work. In classrooms. In therapy offices. In staffing meetings. In referrals.

And most of the time, nobody in the room even knows it's happening.

That's exactly why I built the 2026 Black Play Therapy® Symposium around Cognitive Biases that fuel the School-to-Prison Pipeline.

Because disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline starts with disrupting what happens inside us, the unconscious patterns that shape every decision we make about Black children.

Springfield, VA
July 10–11, 2026
CE Sponsored by Unicorn Life Play Therapy Training: Play Therapy ( APT Approved Provider 18-532), Social Work (ACE Approved Provider #2031), and Counseling (NBCC Approval No. SP-5348).

This is the room where real conversations happen. Where mental health professionals stop performing awareness and start doing the work.

Reclaiming Black Childhood starts here.

Register now: http://www.blackplaytherapy.com (link in bio).

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Woodbridge, VA
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