Telehealth and Play-Based Interventions

Description

This course does not offer CE Credits. The same course is available for purchase and offers 6 CE hours for behavioral health clinicians and play therapists.  See "related products" below.

Children don’t always have the words to tell us what’s wrong—but in play, they show us everything. For clinicians providing telehealth services to children and families, this course bridges the gap between in-person connection and digital care.

Telehealth and play-based therapy are not mutually exclusive—and with the right skills and strategies, you can confidently and ethically deliver high-impact support that meets your young clients right where they are.

Dr. Amy Marschall, Psy.D., a licensed clinical psychologist, trauma-informed therapist, and author of Telemental Health with Kids Toolbox, brings years of hands-on experience using creative, evidence-based interventions with children and adolescents. Dr. Marschall’s extensive telehealth practice and her neurodiversity-affirming, trauma-sensitive lens provide the depth and clarity clinicians need to serve kids through virtual platforms.

With a practical, engaging, and ethically grounded approach, Dr. Marschall teaches you how to select, design, and deliver interventions that resonate with young clients and their caregivers—without sacrificing rapport, creativity, or clinical quality.

Topics include translating in-person play techniques to virtual platforms, navigating parent involvement, creating your own interventions based on theory and treatment goals, assessing client appropriateness for telehealth, and using virtual tools like Minecraft, sand trays, and collaborative family games to enhance therapeutic outcomes.

Key Takeaways:

• Telehealth Play Strategies that Work: Learn a wide range of virtual interventions you can immediately implement, from non-directive play to structured activities and creative arts.

• Confident Parent Communication: Build your confidence in explaining the benefits and limitations of telehealth to caregivers using ready-to-go scripts.

• Clinical Creativity with Ethical Integrity: Understand how to document, adapt, and innovate interventions while staying within your scope and meeting ethical standards.

Why this course?

• Evidence-Based + Real-World Tested: Gain strategies from an instructor with years of experience treating kids via telehealth—even with children as young as three.

• Immediately Actionable: Leave with tools, scripts, games, and platforms you can use right away, plus the knowledge to adapt and develop your own.

• Trusted, Mission-Driven Provider: Offered by the Telehealth Certification Institute, a leader in behavioral health education with a mission to empower professionals with the skills to deliver the highest quality care.

Learning Objectives:

• Critically analyze research behind the efficacy of telehealth with play-based interventions.

• Construct scripts to educate clients and their parents about the benefits and limitations of telehealth with children.

• Employ at least ten play-based telehealth interventions in clinical practice and document their use in notes and treatment plans.

• Design, create, and implement additional play-based telehealth interventions based on theory and technical skills from this presentation.

• Integrate in-person play interventions in a telehealth platform effectively and following protocols for evidence-based play and teletherapy.

Join this course to feel more confident, equipped, and inspired in your work with children and families. Whether you’re just beginning to explore telehealth with younger clients or looking to expand your therapeutic toolkit, this course offers the guidance, tools, and ethical grounding you need.

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Format and Access

This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Instruction consists of 3 hours of video instruction and an evaluation.

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, and a course evaluation.

How to Attend: 

Course access and completion instructions.

Instructor and Disclosures

Instructor

About Dr. Amy Marschall, Psy.D.

Dr. Marschall earned her doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut. She completed her pre-doctoral internship through the National Psychology Training Consortium and her post-doctoral residency at Family Psychological Center, PA.

Dr. Marschall has been in practice since 2016 and currently owns a private practice, RMH-Therapy, where she provides therapy primarily to children and adolescents and psychological evaluations. Her clinical specializations include trauma-informed and neurodiversity-affirming care, trauma therapy, autism, and ADHD.

She also provides ADHD assessments through ADHD Online and therapy services through Spring Health. She teaches continuing education through PESI, Spring Health, and the Telehealth Certification Institute.

Dr. Marschall is certified in telemental health and is the author of Telemental Health with Kids Toolbox and Telemental Health with Kids Toolbox: Volume 2.

She is also the author of the following: 

• I Don’t Want To Be Bad: A CBT Workbook for Kids, Parents, and the Professionals who Help Them
• Clinical Documentation with Children and Adolescents
• A Year of Resiliency: 465 Journal Prompts to Become Your Strongest Self
• Armani Doesn’t Feel Well: A Book to Help Sick Kids

She created a website, Resiliency Mental Health, to provide resources for therapists and anyone who wants to learn more about mental health.

Disclosure Statement: 

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

CE Hours

This course does not offer CE credits, just great content.

The same course is available for purchase and offers 6 CE hours for behavioral health clinicians and play therapists.  See "related products" below.

This course is a non-interactive, online self-study.

Participants may request a printed version of their certificate of completion to be delivered by mail. A shipping/handling fee of $6.95 will be charged per request. Shipping internationally may require an additional charge.

Accommodations and Policies

Close Captioning is available for live webinars and recorded video presentations.

You can click on the following links to view our policies:

• Accommodations for Individuals with Disabilities.
• Cancellation Policy
• Grievance Policy
• Support Options
• Disclosure Statement