We are thrilled to welcome Terry Kottman, Ph.D., RPT-S, LMHC. Dr. Kottman founded The Encouragement Zone and developed Adlerian Play Therapy, an approach to working with children families, and adults that combines the ideas and techniques of In dividual Psychology with Play Therapy. She is the author of Play Therapy: Basics and Beyond, co-author (with Kristin Meany-Walen) of Partners in Play:An Adlerian Approach to Play Therapy (3rd ed.) and Doing Play Therapy: From Building the Relationship to Facilitating Change,along with several other books. In 2024, she won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Play Therapy, and in 2017, she won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Iowa Association for Play Therapy. She is also Jacob's mom and Rick's wife, the best accomplishments of her lifetime of striving.

More information coming Fall 2025, Registration opens February 2026