Advance Your Practice
with Specialist Training

Our Practitioner Awards are designed to support qualified therapists, counsellors, and mental health professionals in deepening their knowledge, expanding their skills, and evolving their clinical practice. Whether you’re looking to work with new client groups, adopt innovative therapeutic models, or step into a supervisory role, our professionally recognised Diploma and Certificate courses offer immersive, experiential learning grounded in best practice. Delivered by expert trainers, each course blends theory and practical application to ensure you’re confident and competent in your work. CPD Certificates are issued on successful completion of each course.

Multi-Sensory Trauma Processing (MTP ©) and EMDR Principles Across the Lifespan

This exciting training programme, utilises two core models to address and resolve trauma.  As this is a practitioner award, engagement in 20 clinical practice sessions, and 5 supervision sessions, are required. This supervision is included in the cou...
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Professional Diploma in Sandtray Therapy and Symbolic Expression

IACP CPD approved for 84 CPD Points This exciting, one-year, Diploma course will bring you deep into the world of projective play and the use of symbols as therapeutic agents with psychotherapy and counselling clients. You will engage in experiential...
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Diploma in Creative Supervision

Creative Supervision includes the use of action methods and creative approaches in the supervision of therapists and other professionals involved in direct work with clients of all ages, utilising a variety of theoretical frameworks, and in a variety...
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Practitioner Certificate in Creative Therapy with Emerging Adults

The intensive blended learning course explores the unique developmental tasks, mental health challenges, and therapeutic needs of emerging adults, commonly seen as spanning the years between 18 and mid- to late-20’s.  Participants will develop expert...
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Your Path to Professional Growth

Easily select, book, and complete your training with CTC. Our flexible courses provide the skills, certification, and confidence needed to advance your career in Play Therapy, Therapeutic Play and Psychotherapy.
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Choose from a range of flexible, practical training options designed to fit your needs. Learn at your pace and enhance your therapeutic skills effectively!
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Browse, book, and begin your training with ease. Choose the right course for you and start learning today!
Certificate
Gain official certification to showcase your skills and enhance your career opportunities in play therapy and psychotherapy!
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Ready to Continue Your
Educational Journey?

Build on your Practitioner Awards and explore our QQI Certificates and Short Courses —
advance your professional journey with Ireland’s leading training provider.
QQI Certificates
Short Courses

Don’t Just Take Our Word for It

Hear from past trainees about their experience at CTC and how our courses have supported their personal and professional growth.
I have had the pleasure of doing quite a number of short courses with some fantastic and well experienced CTC facilitators over the last couple of months. I found the learning intentions of each course were always clearly stated and what I took away from the training always far exceeded my expectations. I have been given lots of food for thought to enhance my own wellbeing and that of my family and the children I work with. It is evident to me th...
Short online course participant
I completed the Therapeutic Play Skills Certificate course with the lovely Cathy at CTC. It was such a wonderful and rich experience. A fabulous mix of experiential learning – games, role play, self reflection, and so much fun and creativity! It was a completely new way of learning for me. The course was a real eye opener, both personally as a parent, and professionally, and was a very important stepping stone towards a new and exciting car...
Therapeutic Play Skills Certificate Graduate

I completed the Therapeutic Play Skills training in person in Kilcock with Elaine. The training was so enjoyable, it challenged me to reflect on my own practice, and to become really curious about the children’s behaviour. I feel that it changed the way I teach and interact with the children I work with, for the better. It is, hands down, the best CPD I have done in my 10 years of teaching.

Therapeutic Play Skills Certificate Graduate
To say this course has been life changing feels like an understatement. In 4 years, I have changed my entire career, grown professionally and interpersonally more than I could ever have imagined, all the while gaining a deeply rich and integrated knowledge of theory, clinical practice and Self-knowledge. All this knowledge has been garnered from a course that is so intelligently designed that a new-found Self emerges, following layer after layer ...
CTC MA Graduate
The MA in Creative Psychotherapy and Play Therapy offered by The Children’s Therapy Centre is second to none. It is enlightening! This MA sparked a love of learning in me and ignited so many passions that my life has completely changed for the better. The emphasis placed on personal development is of equal importance to professional development…imagine a course where you take time to get to rediscover your own authenticity and learn who you were ...
CTC MA Graduate
My CTC experience was nothing short of excellent. Now that I have transitioned out of CTC and established my private practice while also working as a psychotherapist in an organization, I feel immense gratitude for the comprehensive training I received. The quality of education and support at CTC truly is second to none. I am excited about the upcoming short courses and CPD opportunities, as there is always fantastic training and new information ...
CTC MA Graduate
The most sparkly silver lining of this pandemic is that I have the opportunity to do training with the Children’s Therapy Centre. Being based in Hong Kong, it is lovely to experience training with those at home in Ireland. I have done a number of courses through the Children’s Therapy Centre, and all of them have been exceptional. This is true of the entire process. Booking online is easy. Siobhán is wonderful and is super friendly, helpful and s...
Short online course participant
What an empowering and invigorating two years I have spent with Children’s Therapy Centre. Each module inspired and exposed new ways of being. The balanced and integrated course builds on the theories of experts through the years right up to current practice which exposes the sheer joy and power of play. As a primary school teacher, my class benefited from my newfound skills and experiential learning. I found there is a playful and creative way o...
Y3 MA Student

Looking for Something Shorter?

Explore our wide range of flexible short courses—perfect for professional development, CPD, or getting started in the field.
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Children’s Therapy Centre (CTC) is Ireland’s longest established leading provider of training in the field of Play Therapy, Therapeutic Play, and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy.
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Children’s Therapy Centre
Stewart House
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Plassey, Limerick.
V94 KN70, Ireland
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