Short Courses

CTC offers a wide range of short courses designed for professionals, students, parents, carers, and anyone with an interest in therapeutic approaches. Whether you’re building your skills, meeting CPD requirements, or just getting started in the field, our flexible online, blended, and onsite courses make professional development accessible and effective. CPD Certificates are issued after each course.

Currently Enrolling

Play Therapy in Schools
  • Tuesday, September 9, 2025
  • Live Online Training Event
In many ways a school is an ideal setting for Play Therapy to occur, however there are some challenges.
Soothing Transitions & Separations
  • Wednesday, September 10, 2025
  • Live Online Training Event
This live online course will look at supporting children who find it difficult to leave a parent or carer.
Embracing and Supporting Unique Minds: Enhancing a Neurodivergent Affirming Practice Across the Lifespan.
  • Saturday, September 13, 2025
  • Live Online Training Event
This engaging workshop provides an interactive and reflective  space to explore the historical context and the changing neurodiversity paradigm which ...
A Playful Attachment: Bonding Playfully with Your Baby
  • Monday, September 15, 2025
  • Live Online Training Event
This live online course dives into the power of play and how it can build and enhance a secure and playful attachment with your baby!
An Introduction to Play Therapy
  • Wednesday, September 24, 2025
  • Live Online Training Event
This live online course will provide participants with a great introduction into the world of Play Therapy.  This experiential workshop is a hands on,...
Creative Endings in Child & Adolescent Therapy
  • Monday, October 13, 2025
  • Live Online Training Event
This unique and highly interactive live online course will outline the hallmarks and significance of endings for the therapist, the child and the fami...
Sensational Sensory Play
  • Wednesday, October 15, 2025
  • Live Online Training Event
This live online course explores the importance of sensory play and practical ways to increase engagement in this type of play
Being with Big Feelings
  • Thursday, October 23, 2025
  • Live Online Training Event
This live online course will look at how we can help adults to support children in their care who are experiencing big or overwhelming feelings
Play Therapy Techniques
  • Saturday, October 25, 2025
  • Live Online Training Event
This web-based course will introduce participants to play, its therapeutic benefits, and a variety of developmentally appropriate techniques used by p...
Building Inner Besties: Strategies to Boost Children’s Self-concept and Self- Esteem
  • Thursday, November 6, 2025
  • Live Online Training Event
This live online course will look at how we can help children develop positive self-concept and self-esteem.
An Introduction to Play Therapy
  • Wednesday, November 12, 2025
  • Live Online Training Event
This live online course will provide participants with a great introduction into the world of Play Therapy.  This experiential workshop is a hands on,...
A Joint Journey Towards Healing: Navigating Love, Loss and Grief
  • Saturday, November 15, 2025
  • LIVE Online Training Event
This reflective and interactive workshop is designed for therapists, counsellors, and other  mental health professionals working therapeutically with ...
Anchoring your Adolescent
  • Thursday, November 20, 2025
  • Live Online Training Event
This live online course explore how to remain connected to an adolescent as they navigate one of the most challenging times in development.
From Drama to Empowerment: Navigating the Drama Triangle in Clinical Supervision
  • Friday, January 30, 2026
  • Live Online Training Event
This 3-hour creative, experiential, and interactive workshop, is designed for clinical supervisors seeking to deepen their awareness of the Drama Tria...
Post-Traumatic Growth in Children and Young People: Healing Through the Therapeutic Powers of Play
  • Tuesday, February 10, 2026
  • Live Online Training Event
Attachment Theory in the Play Therapy Room
  • Tuesday, April 28, 2026
  • LIVE Online Training Event
This 3-hour live on workshop is designed to enhance your understanding of attachment theory and its application within Play Therapy.

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Medical Trauma in Play Therapy
  • Live Online Training Event
This innovative live online workshop will introduce participants to medical trauma, and a wide variety of therapeutic approaches that can support chil...
The Impact of Domestic Abuse on Child Development
  • Live Online Training Event
This live online course will look at how living with Domestic Abuse impacts child development.
The Power of Special Playtimes
  • Live Online Training Event
This live online course will look at how we can make the most of a child’s most valuable toy, a willing adult.

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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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.
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
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
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
As the saying goes, “It only takes one golden opportunity to shape a different future.” For me, that opportunity came in the form of the four year Master of Arts in Creative Psychotherapy (Humanistic & Integrative), which I pursued at the Children’s Therapy Centre from 2019 to 2023. I cannot recommend this course offered by CTC highly enough. The content of the course is grounded in a blend of theory, clinical practice and experiential learni...
CTC MA Graduate
CTC is the third time I’ve been to college. I used to like the idea of college, learning & broadening my mind, however I never had the focus to really experience or enjoy it. Fast forward to 2022 when I signed up to take part in the Therapeutic Play Skills Certificate course, that was it, I was hooked! I applied to the MA in Creative Psychotherapy the following year. I had found an educational centre that taught in a way that reached out to a...
Y2 MA Student
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
“I recently completed the Live Online Therapeutic Play Skills Course through the Children’s Therapy Centre, facilitated by the wonderful Edel Lawlor. This training was truly insightful, empowering, and deeply rooted in the power of play. The course not only enriched my understanding of therapeutic play but also provided me with practical, hands-on skills that I can confidently bring into my work with children. My experience with CTC has been over...
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

Build on Your Learning

Take your learning to the next level with our QQI-accredited Certificate Courses—designed for professionals who want to integrate therapeutic play into their practice with confidence and credibility.
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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Stewart House
Lonsdale Road,
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Plassey, Limerick.
V94 KN70, Ireland
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