Creative Play Therapy for ADHD
Turning Challenges into Strengths
- Speaker:
- Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW, CPT-S
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 30 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
Jun 03, 2026
- Product Code:
- POS150713
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Children with ADHD are often energetic, creative, and full of potential —but in the play therapy room, their distractibility, impulsivity, and hyperactivity can challenge even the most experienced clinicians.
In this highly engaging session, internationally renowned play therapist and author Liana Lowenstein shares a toolkit of directive play therapy interventions specifically designed for children ages 4-12 with ADHD. These structured, goal-oriented play therapy activities are tailored to help children strengthen attention, increase impulse control, improve self-regulation, and channel their energy in constructive ways.
You’ll learn how to use targeted play-based strategies to transform restlessness into mastery, distraction into focus, and impulsivity into insight. Whether you're working in a clinical setting, school-based environment, or home, you'll gain access to play therapy techniques that are easy to implement and highly effective. This session also includes practical tools for parents and teachers to reduce power struggles, foster cooperation, and support children’s success across multiple environments.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to deepen your understanding of play therapy and discover creative, evidence-informed approaches to help children with ADHD become more motivated, focused, organized, and able to perform closer to their true potential — all through the transformative power of play.
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Speaker
Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW, CPT-S Related seminars and products
Liana Lowenstein is a licensed clinical social worker, certified play therapist-supervisor, and certified TF-CBT therapist who has been working with children and their families in Toronto for over 35 years. Her areas of specialty include treating trauma, bereavement, divorce, anxiety, and ADHD. She integrates play therapy into evidence-based models such as CBT and TF-CBT. In addition to her clinical practice, she provides supervision and consultation to mental health professionals. Liana’s 14 books are used by mental health professionals and children’s support workers all over the world, and several have been translated into Chinese, Korean, and Turkish. Her best-selling titles include Creative Interventions for Bereaved, Creative Interventions for Children of Divorce, Creative CBT Interventions for Children with Anxiety, and Cory Helps Kids Cope with Sexual Abuse. Her latest book, Cory Helps Kids Cope with Grief: Playful Activities for Young Children, helps young grievers impacted by suicide, homicide, drug overdose, natural disasters, mass violence, war, military casualties, and other types of loss.
Liana is a frequent keynote speaker at international conferences and agency training events, and has provided workshops throughout North America and abroad, including China, South Africa, Israel, England, New Zealand, Australia, and Slovenia. Liana has trained mental health professionals and grief group facilitators on innovative ways of supporting bereaved children, including presentations at the ADEC through the Learning Institute at the Sick Kids Centre for Community Mental Health.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Liana Lowenstein maintains a private practice and receives compensation as a consultant. She receives royalties as a published author. Liana Lowenstein receives a speaking honorarium, book, and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Liana Lowenstein is a member of the Ontario Association of Social Workers, the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, the Canadian Association for Child and Play Therapy, and the Association for Play Therapy.
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Objectives
- Identify the diagnostic features of ADHD in play therapy.
- Understand examples of a play therapy that help a child manage impulsivity.
- Name an example of a play therapy technique to help a child increase attention and focus.
Outline
Understanding ADHD Through a Therapeutic Lens
- The three presentations of ADHD
- The role of executive functioning and self-regulation deficits
- Differentiating ADHD from anxiety and trauma
- Benefits of structured play therapy techniques to help children with ADHD
- Limitations and risks
Creative, Directive Play Therapy Interventions That Work
- Step-by-step demonstrations of play therapy techniques to slow down the mind and body
- Innovative games and other play therapy activities to increase attention span and focus
- Movement-based strategies that channel hyperactivity into mastery and success
- Play therapy games to enhance self-regulation and emotional control
Partnering with Parents and Teachers for Lasting Change
- Translating play therapy skills into home and school success
- Effective ways to coach parents on managing impulsivity and defiance
- Creative classroom strategies to set children up for success and reduce behavioral struggles
- Distinguishing incompetence from noncompliance - and responding effectively
Risks & Limitations
Target Audience
- Play Therapists
- Child Therapists
- Licensed Clinical/Mental Health Counselors
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
- Physicians
- Nurses
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