LEGO®-based Play Therapy Techniques

Description

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When words aren’t enough, bricks can build the bridge. For many clients—especially children—communicating complex emotions and experiences is overwhelming. This 3-course bundle equips clinicians with powerful, evidence-informed techniques using LEGO® to unlock therapeutic breakthroughs.

Learn how to creatively integrate LEGO®-based interventions into play therapy to foster connection, expression, and problem-solving across all ages and settings. This is more than just play—it’s purposeful, transformative work.

Althea T. Simpson, MBA, LCSW, RPT-S, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor, and Certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Facilitator. As the founder of Unicorn Life Training and Brighter Day Therapeutic Solutions, Althea specializes in trauma recovery and empowering clinicians with practical, experiential interventions. Her expertise in using metaphors, introspection, and LEGO® models in therapy has made her a sought-after presenter at national conferences and clinical training events.

Through a structured yet creative approach, Althea guides participants in applying play therapy fundamentals to LEGO®-based techniques that are developmentally attuned and adaptable. You’ll explore directive and non-directive models, storytelling strategies, and reflective practices that deepen insight and build therapeutic rapport.

In this 7.5-hour self-paced course bundle, you’ll examine how to use LEGO® to support therapeutic goals across the lifespan. Topics include metaphor and story-making using the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® model, introspection and self-awareness, social and emotional development, limit setting in therapy, focused interventions using directive builds, and strategies for online LEGO® play therapy. The course provides detailed, stage-by-stage insights for integrating LEGO® with play therapy frameworks.

Key Takeaways:

• Integrate diverse LEGO®-based methods: Learn directive, metaphorical, and introspective techniques to fit each client’s developmental needs and clinical goals.
  
  
• Empower client storytelling and insight: Use LEGO® to help clients externalize their experiences, reframe their challenges, and build hope.
  
  
• Adapt for any setting: Gain tools for in-person and telehealth settings using evidence-informed and ethically sound approaches.

Why this course bundle?

• A cohesive bundle for deeper mastery: Rather than offering a one-off workshop, this course bundle delivers an integrated learning experience across three expertly designed trainings. Together, they cover storytelling, introspection, and directive play therapy, giving you a more complete set of tools than a standalone course ever could.
  
  
• Maximize value and clinical versatility: By enrolling in this bundle, you gain access to multiple interventions and adaptable strategies—applicable across various age groups, client presentations, and settings (including telehealth)—at a discounted CE hour rate.
  
  
• Learn from a leader in LEGO®-based therapy: Althea Simpson’s approach is both evidence-informed and grounded in lived clinical practice. Her work blends trauma-informed care, cultural humility, and creative expression, making this bundle not just educational—but transformative.

Whether you're just starting to explore LEGO® in your clinical work or looking to sharpen existing skills, this course offers a comprehensive, inspiring experience that blends imagination with clinical effectiveness. You’re invited to explore the power of play in a whole new way.

Add this course bundle to your cart to develop your skills, boost your confidence, and enhance your impact as a behavioral health professional.

Format and Access

This is a non-interactive, self-study program. Instruction consists of 7.5 hours of video instruction and a post-test.

Individual Course Information

Upon registration, the following courses will be added to your account:

1. It’s All Focused: LEGO®-Based Play Therapy Techniques

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the benefits of incorporating LEGO® with focused interventions like solution-focused therapy and metaphors to use in play therapy sessions with clients.
• Play therapy practitioners will explore the use LEGO® with clients through different stages of the therapeutic process.
• Discuss materials and skills needed to incorporate LEGO® into play therapy practice.
• Demonstrate at least 3 directive LEGO® models to assess and treat various emotional and behavioral issues that present in play therapy treatment.

2. Introspective Brick Building: LEGO®-Based Play Therapy Techniques

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the therapeutic benefits of intentionally incorporating LEGO® into play therapy practice.
• Identify and discuss various social skills and interpersonal skills that can be developed by incorporating LEGO® use into play therapy practice.
• Discuss limit setting for managing behavior in multiple play therapy settings.
• Demonstrate the purposeful use of LEGO® in play therapy practice.

3. Implementing LEGO®-Based Play Therapy Online Using Storytelling & Metaphors

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the LEGO SERIOUS PLAY model and its connection to play therapy practice.
• Identify and discuss at least three ways storytelling and metaphors can be used in play therapy.
• Identify and discuss the stages that metaphors move through when incorporating LEGOs and storytelling into play therapy to help clients communicate experiences.
• Demonstrate building LEGO models to help clients receiving play therapy to improve social and emotional functioning.

Course Details

Availability: 

From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.

Who Should Attend: 

This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.

Teaching Methods: 

This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.

How to Attend: 

Course access and completion instructions.

Instructor and Disclosures

Instructor

About Althea T. Simpson, MBA, LCSW, RPT-S

Althea T. Simpson is the founder of Brighter Day Therapeutic Solutions, Unicorn Life Training, and the Black Play Therapy Society. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor and Certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Facilitator.

Althea has a passion for helping children, adolescents, adults, and families from diverse backgrounds and dealing with a range of concerns go from “Hurt to Healed.” She specializes in trauma recovery and has an active psychotherapy practice in Woodbridge, Virginia.

Althea uses the LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method to help individuals and families address a variety of mental health issues. She also facilitates skill enriching workshops to teach mental health professionals’ therapeutic techniques that can help empower their clients to move through the therapeutic process. 

Althea has delivered presentations for numerous organizations, community events, and professional conferences and seminars. 

To learn more or contact her, visit:

Althea Simpson's Website

Althea Simpson's Training Website

Althea Simpson's Conference Website

Disclosure Statement: 

The instructor(s) for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.

CE Credits

Credit Hours:

This program consists of 2.5 continuing education hours of credit for each course, for a total of 7.5 CEs.

Counselors:

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No, 6693.  Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. 

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0048.

Marriage and Family Therapists: 

Many MFT licensing boards accept our courses or one of the approvals which we have from professional associations.  You can check with your board to determine if your licensing board would accept this course.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0135, effective May 8, 2025.

Social Workers:

Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, #1609, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 05/02/2024 – 05/02/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 7.5 clinical continuing education credits.

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers #SW-0435.

Play Therapists:

Telehealth Certification Institute LLC has been approved as a continuing education provider by the Association for Play Therapy: APT Approved Provider 21-633. Per the Association for Play Therapy (APT), play therapy training may not be awarded to non-mental health professionals. APT alone holds the right to accept or deny any continuing education training at its discretion. This course qualifies as 2.5 non-contact continuing education Play Therapy credit.

Addiction Professionals:

This course has been approved by Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits, effective 2/9/2022. NAADAC Provider #193104, Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is responsible for all aspects of the programming.

Art Therapists: 

Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Creative Arts Therapists #CAT-0093.

Other Professionals:

This course qualifies for 450 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations.  Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.

This is three separate non-interactive, self-study courses.

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