A Playful Attachment: Bonding Playfully with Your Baby

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!
  • Monday, September 15, 2025
  • 7:00pm-8:30pm
  • Live Online Training Event
Book Now: €35.00

About The Training

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! The course focuses on the most important attachment and play material a baby could have – their caregivers face! This course is suitable for parent and carers and also for professionals working with parents and carers. The course will be facilitated by a highly experienced child and adolescent psychotherapists with a specialisation in play therapy.

  • Learn about the relational benefits of play, starting at the perinatal stage.
  • Learn how to offer brain building play opportunities in short bursts of time.
  • Learn how play overlaps with healthy attachment development
  • Learn to recognise some of the key stages of play development in babies and how this contributes to their wellbeing and yours.

The course is designed to equip parents and carers, and professionals working with parents and carers, with understanding about how easy and worthwhile it can be to insert more playfulness into the parent-child relationship and how this contributes so well to perinatal, infant and carer wellbeing and mental health.

This training is suitable for professionals working with children and/or teenagers. It is also suitable for parents and carers of children and/or teenagers, and anyone interested in play and creative therapeutic approaches.

Full fee is non-refundable in the event of cancellations within 2 weeks of the course, You may nominate another eligible person to take your place – simply notify us and provide us with their contact details.

Materials & Resources Needed
  • Access to a computer/device with audio and video
  • Stable internet connection
  • A confidential space
Our Distinguished Trainer
Carol Duffy
Lecturer
(BSc Hons Social Psychology and Sociology, Diploma in Play Therapy and Psychotherapy; Diploma in Creative Supervision; MA in Creative Psychotherapy.) Carol is a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist Specialising in play therapy and a former Senior Play Therapist in Tusla In Mayo. She is a Core Trainer, Clinical Supervisor and Academic Registrar at the Children’s Therapy Centre. She has over 20 yea...
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Certificate of Attendance for CPD Purposes

All participants will receive a CTC Certificate of Attendance after the training.

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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
Lonsdale Road,
National Technology Park,
Plassey, Limerick.
V94 KN70, Ireland
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