Media Center

Welcome to the Media Center of the Association for Play Therapy!

APT acknowledges that media personnel must generate information by hard deadlines. For an immediate response to your inquiries, contact one of the individuals below. To assure our quick response, please include your name, media outlet, telephone numbers, email address, deadline, and, if possible, angle or specific inquiry. Thank you!

Association for Play Therapy (APT)
A national nonprofit society for licensed mental health professionals.
2060 N. Winery Avenue, #102, Fresno, CA 93703 USA
Tel (559) 252-2278, Fax (559) 252-2297, www.a4pt.org

• Kathy Lebby, CMP, General Manager, Ext 4, Cell (559) 285-7215, klebby@a4pt.org
• Bill Burns, CAE, Executive Director/CEO, Ext 5, Home (559) 226-8010, bburns@a4pt.org

APT can provide play therapy information and, if interviews are preferred, "primary sources" to address your specific inquiry. Quickly learn about play therapy, play therapy research, and consult sample applications in archived Play Therapy magazine articles and Mining Reports.

In A Nutshell

• Play therapy is a form of counseling used by licensed mental health professionals to better communicate with and address certain mental disorders and behavioral problems of developmentally appropriate clients, especially children. More play therapy information and recent articles are available on the Association website.
• The Association for Play Therapy was established in 1982 as a non-profit national professional society to advance play therapy research and practice. It sponsors continuing education, credentialing, and other programs to serve its member psychologists, counselors, school psychologists and counselors, social workers, and marriage and family therapists in the US and 25 other nations. More information about its programs, board of directors, staff, and members is available on the Association website.
• Registered Play Therapist (RPT) and Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor (RPT-S) credentials are conferred by APT to licensed mental health professionals who have satisfied extensive education, training, experiential, and supervision criteria. More information about the RPT/S credentials is available on our website.