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2026 PA APT Annual Conference
Dr. Terry Kottman
April 24-25, 2026
Penn Stater Hotel & Conference Center
State College, PA
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
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2027 PA APT Annual Conference
Ann Beckley-Forest, LCSW, RPT-S
April 23-24, 2027
Penn Stater Hotel & Conference Center
State College, PA
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice in Buffalo, NY, Ann Beckley-Forest specializes in attachment and child and adolescent trauma, and also works with adult survivors. She has been a play therapist for over 20 years and is both a Registered Play Therapy Supervisor and an Approved Provider of Play Therapy continuing education through the Association for Play Therapy. She previously served on the board of the New York branch of APT. She is an EMDR Approved Consultant, Virtual Basic Trainer, and an affiliated faculty member of the Child Trauma Institute. She provides consultation both in person and remotely and offers training locally and internationally. Her primary interest lies in the intersection of play therapy and EMDR. She has published on this topic, including serving as co-editor of EMDR with Children in the Play Therapy Room: An Integrated Approach (2020).
More information coming Fall 2026, Registration opens February 2027
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