19420 Golf Vista Plaze #330
Lansdowne, VA 20176
571-733-9736
Our healing center includes partnership with the FamilyTherapy Center of Northern Virginia. www.FamilyTherapyNova.com
Welcome to The Willow's Crown
Trainings for Play Therapists AND Creative Clinicians
A special thank you to artist Frida Kahlo for reminding us of the beauty of exploring pain, identity and healing through creativity.
Frida has become an icon in art, feminism, disability awareness and emotional expression. What you do, creative therapist is important.
Live Webinar &
Live In Person CEs
Pre-Recorded Trainings for CEs
Interactive Book Club for CEs
Meditation Live & Pre-Recorded
Become the Trusted Therapist
You Are Meant to BE
Engaging trainings rooted in creativity & connection
Continuing education (CE) for Play Therapists AND creative clinicians
Brain/nervous system science translated into everyday tools for the therapy room
Interactive Book Club for CE hours AND connection with others like you!
Many ways to learn: Live in person, live webinar, pre-recorded, even a hybrid mixture of all!
Meditation both live and pre-recorded for the human within the professional
Continuing Education for Therapists
The Willow’s Crown Meditation Studio and Training Facility, llc (WC) is approved by the Association for Play Therapy (APT) to offer continuing education specific to play therapy. APT Approved Provider 19-587. WC has been approved by The National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7308. Read each training carefully to see which are applied.
Students use Promo Code STUDENT25
to Save 25% on ANY Training We Offer!
CHOOSE YOUR CLASS STYLE AND START TRAINING!
Live Webinar &/or In Person Trainings
for Trauma Informed Therapy
For the Play Therapist and/or Creative Therapist of Older Children, Teens and Adults
You know the moment:
A client walks in, and everything’s quiet.
They’re shut down, guarded, or lost in the fog of trauma.
You ask gentle questions. Reflect what you can. But you’re doing all the talking.
It’s not that they don’t want to heal.
It’s that trauma often lives where words can’t reach.
We’ve been trained to enter the therapy room through the talking brain.
But the talking brain isn’t where the trauma is.
Trauma lives in the right brain, where image, metaphor, and symbol speak louder than language.
Going into Traumatic Material is Hard on Clients and Hard on Therapists, Too.
This 3-part creative and play-informed CE series is for therapists who work
with tweens, teens, and adults and who want more than insight and coping.
You will learn to use right-brained tools like imagery, symbolic card prompts, guided visualization,
and expressive art to bypass resistance and reach what’s often unspoken.
And yes—this is play therapy for adults too.
Not floor play, but deep, imaginative, soulful work that honors the creative mind ... yours included.
Whether you’re supporting trauma recovery, helping clients reclaim identity, or trying to stay whole
while holding so much, this series offers grounded, experiential tools you can use right away,
with clients and within yourself.
Each Experiential Training Will Include ...
🖼️ Symbolic Card Prompts: Tap into story, identity & hard to reach healing without the need for words alone
🧘♀️ Guided Visualization or Meditation: Because sometimes clients need to visualize the healing first
🎨 Creative Art Prompt: Art can help tell the story that words struggle to know how to tell (yes, even adults!)
👥 Demonstration + Case Reflection: So you can see how it plays out in session
🧰 Clinician Experience:You will try every prompt yourself, firsthand before taking them to your clients
Bring a symbolic or image-based card deck (archetype, oracle, even word or photo decks welcome) and a few simple art supplies (paper, markers, etc).
You will leave with tools to use immediately with adults, teens, or older children, and feel more equipped to meet trauma with presence, imagination, and care.therapists welcome.
Sign Up For Your Experiential Class Below
Purchase Two Trauma Informed Trainings & Save $15, Complete the Trio & Save $30
Saving Opportunities Available at the Check Out
Live In Person (APT contact hours) AND Live Webinar (non-contact) Available
When Words Aren’t Enough: Creative, Right-Brained Approaches to Trauma
An experiential training for therapists working with trauma that’s too deep, or too defended for words alone.
Appropriate for older children,
teens & adults.
Friday, August 22, 2025
9:30am - 12:45pm EST
Cost: $99
Virtual Live Stream
3 non-contact APT & 3 NBCC CE
-OR-
In Person: 3 Contact APT & NBCC CE
Ridgetop Coffee & Tea
21631 Ridgetop Cir, Sterling, VA 20166
Instructor: Gabrielle Anderson
More Than Surviving: Creative, Tools to Build Strength During Intense Trauma Work
Shrinking symptoms isn’t enough, help older children, teens & adult reclaim who they are in an experiential, right brain approach
Friday, December 12, 2025
9:30am - 12:45pm EST
Cost: $99
Virtual Live Stream 3 non-contact APT & 3 NBCC CE
-OR-
In Person: 3 Contact APT & NBCC CE
Ridgetop Coffee & Tea
21631 Ridgetop Cir, Sterling, VA 20166
Instructor: Gabrielle Anderson
A Symbolic Reset: Creative Self-Care for Therapists Carrying Vicarious Trauma
A reflective, experiential training rooted in play therapy, but created for any type of therapist who sits with the hard stories every day
Friday, March 20, 2026
9:30am - 12:45pm EST
Cost: $99
Virtual Live Stream 3 non-contact APT & 3 NBCC CE
-OR-
In Person: 3 Contact APT & NBCC CE
Ridgetop Coffee & Tea
21631 Ridgetop Cir, Sterling, VA 20166
Instructor: Gabrielle Anderson
Purchase Two Above Trauma Informed Trainings & Save $15, Complete the Trio & Save $30!
Saving Opportunities Available at the Check Out
Live Webinar &/or In Person Discussion
for Continuing Education Hours
It's time to banish isolation!
Here’s How This Hybrid Event Works:
📕 Purchase the book. It is now yours to keep and refer to for
guidance
🏡 Read the assigned section at home (non-contact APT &
NBCC CEs)
🍎 Complete an exam (80%+) to earn your reading CE certificate
☕️ 1. Join a live group discussion (contact CEs) in person at a
coffee shop (Sterling, VA) -OR-
👩🏻💻 2. Join a live group discussion (non-contact CEs) via Zoom
🤓 Receive NBCC & APT CES
🎓 Discussion certificates are awarded the same day; reading
certs follow exam completion
Choose Your Book Club Topic Below!
Training has never been so FUN and interactive
Book Club Book #1: Child Centered Play Therapy
By: Rese VanFleet, et. al
2 Training Opportunities (CCPT Book Club) on Friday 10/03/25
Live Virtually OR In Person in Loudoun CO, VA
📗 Child Centered Play Therapy by Rese VanFleet, et. al
Before Class Discussion, Read Sections 1 & 5 of Book
Certificate:
"The History of Child-Centered Play Therapy: From Foundations to Present"
Discussion Time: 10/03/25 ... 9:30am - 11:30am EST
(virtual/in-person)
Discussion 2 CEs:
2 APT/NBCC CEs
Reading Before Class 3 CEs:
3 APT non-contact CE/3 NBCC (after exam)
Cost: $99 for all 5 CEs
📗 Child Centered Play Therapy by Rese VanFleet, et. al
Before Class Discussion, Read Section 2 of Book
Certificate:
"Understanding Play Room Set Up, Themes and Techniques of Play Therapy"
Discussion Time: 10/03/25 ... 12:00pm - 2:00pm EST
(virtual/in-person)
Discussion 2 CEs:
2 APT/NBCC CEs
Reading Before Class 3 CEs:
3 APT non-contact CE/3 NBCC (after exam)
Cost: $99 for all 5 CEs
Purchase Two CCPT Trainings & Save $15, Buy Three & Save $30 or All Four & Save $45!
Saving Opportunities Available at the Check Out
2 Training Opportunities (Same CCPT Book) on Friday 10/10/25
Live Virtually OR In Person in Loudoun CO, VA
📗 Child Centered Play Therapy by Rese VanFleet, et. al
Before Class Discussion, Read Section 3 of Book
Certificate:
"Involving Parents in Child-Centered Play Therapy"
Discussion Time: 10/10/25 ... 9:30am - 11:30am EST
(virtual/in-person)
Discussion 2 CEs:
2 APT/NBCC CEs
Reading Before Class 2 CEs:
2 APT non-contact CE/2 NBCC (after exam)
Cost: $99 for all 4 CEs
📗 Child Centered Play Therapy by Rese VanFleet, et. al
Before Class Discussion, Read Section 4 of Book
Certificate:
"Practical Applications of CCPT in Various Cultural Settings"
Discussion Time: 10/10/25 ... 12:00pm - 2:00pm EST
(virtual/in-person)
Discussion 2 CEs:
2 APT/NBCC CEs
Reading Before Class 6 CEs:
6 APT non-contact CE/6 NBCC (after exam)
Cost: $99 for all 6 CEs
Purchase Two CCPT Trainings & Save $15, Buy three & Save $30 or all four & save $45!
Saving Opportunities Available at the Check Out
Book Club Book #2: (12 Supervision CEs total)
"Burnout, Identity & the Power of Adult Play:
A Creative Supervision Training for Therapists"
Book: "Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul"
By; Stuart Brown
A Book Club (with CEs) for current or future supervisors who want to prevent burnout, build reflective capacity, and bring creativity back to the workplace.
Read the book at home for 10 (non-contact) CEs before BOOK CLUB meets and then join live in person OR live stream to discuss the book for 2 more CEs.
Book Club Discussion:
When: Friday, September 19 | 9:45–11:45 AM EST
Who: Instructor/Group Facilitator: Gabrielle Anderson
Where: Ridgetop Coffee & Tea
21631 Ridgetop Cir, Sterling, VA 20166 -OR-
Virtual:
Live Stream from Your Home
Cost: $199
Continuing Education Credit (12 total):
1o NBCC CE for reading (after completing reflective writing prompts)
10 APT non-contact CE (after completing reflective writing prompts)
2 NBCC CE for Live Book Club Discussion
2 APT CE for Live Book Discussion (non-contact if virtual, contact if in person)
Note: Supervision training CEs for RPT-S™ may be contact or non-contact.
APT does NOT require supervision specific trainings to be contact hours. This counts!
Live Webinar &/or In Person Trainings
for Continuing Education Hours
Sand Tray Therapy with Teens and Adults: Integrating Neuroscience and
Right-Brain Tools into Talk Therapy
Witness sand tray creation in real time. Explore how /when to bring up creative interventions in talking sessions.
Friday, October 24, 2025
9:30am - 1:00pm EST
Cost: $99
Virtual Live Stream
3 non-contact APT & 3 NBCC CE
-OR-
In Person: 3 Contact APT & NBCC CE (9 spaces available)
Family Therapy Center of Northern Virginia
19420 Golf VIsta Plaza #330
Lansdowne, VA 20176
Instructor: Gabrielle Anderson
Trauma Through the Lifespan: Playful, Mindful, and Neuroscience-Informed Tools
Creative tangible tools through a neuroscience lens.
Get to know the nervous system of your client from childhood through adult. Trauma healing that inspires hope.
Friday, January 9, 2026
9:30am - 2:00pm EST
Cost: $125
Virtual Live Stream
4 non-contact APT & 4 NBCC CE
-OR-
In Person: 4 Contact APT & NBCC CE
Ridgetop Coffee & Tea
21631 Ridgetop Cir, Sterling, VA 20166
Instructor: Gabrielle Anderson
ABOUT US
Our Healing Center is Comprised of
The Family Therapy Center & The WIllow’s Crown Meditation
and Training Facility located in Lansdowne, Virginia
We offer counseling therapy to children, teens and adults, meditation to all AND professional training for therapists all across the country.
At the Willow's Crown, we teach from the heart and weave in connection, neuroscience and creativity whenever possible.
Self care, healing and education is what we stand for.
