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Digital Seminar

The Healing Power of Play

Integrating Play Therapy and IFS for Children and Adolescents

Speaker:
Leslie Petruk, MA, LPC-S, NCC, BCC
Duration:
1 Hour 09 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Feb 20, 2026
Product Code:
POS150608
Media Type:
Digital Seminar

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Description

When it comes to IFS and working with children, often times clinicians have trouble getting standard treatment methods to work. You need integrated, developmentally appropriate interventions that can enhance young client’s self-awareness, emotional regulation, and ability to identify and engage young client’s self-awareness, emotional regulation, and ability to identify and engage with their parts. Join Leslie Petruk, LCMHC-S, NCC, BCC as she gives you the best of what IFS and Play therapy have to offer, all in one package! You’ll leave with:

  • Specific activities and applications to use with children and adolescents
  • Tools for translating common comorbidities into parts language
  • Techniques to broaden treatment options through play therapy

 

This event is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.

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Leslie Petruk, MA, LPC-S, NCC, BCC's Profile

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The Stone Center For Counseling & Leadership


Leslie Petruk, LCMHC-S, NCC, BCC is an IFS Solo Lead Trainer, IFS-Level-3 and IFS Certified therapist and IFS Approved Clinical Consultant. She is also a board-certified coach and the director of The Stone Center for Counseling and Leadership in Charlotte, NC. Her specialty areas include working with individuals, children and parents utilizing the IFS model. In addition, Leslie provides consultation and supervision to individuals and groups seeking licensure or IFS Certification. She has taught introductory IFS workshops as well as the application of IFS for clinicians working with children and parents. In addition, Leslie has presented workshops and seminars to a variety of audiences related to her areas of specialty. She also has a program "Leadership for Working Moms" in which she facilitates groups for working moms to help them turn obstacles into steppingstones to lead a more intentional and Self led life. Leslie has presented at the IFS National Conference on Parenting, The Application of SandTray to IFS, IFS and Play Therapy, Applying IFS to work with Children and Parents, and Reparenting Wounded Parts: Using IFS to Heal Attachment Wounds. Leslie has also developed a parenting program that applies IFS principles for parents.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Leslie Petruk is the owner and director of The Stone Center for Counseling & Leadership and is the Lead Trainer with Internal Family Systems Institute. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Leslie Petruk is a member of the American Counseling Association, the Association for Play Therapy, the North Carolina Counseling Association, and the North Carolina Association for Play Therapy.


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This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.


Objectives

  1. Investigate Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy concepts, process, and techniques to broaden treatment intervention options working with children in play therapy.
  2. Examine how IFS therapy and play therapy theory and application complement one another.
  3. Utilize parts identification and mapping to begin to understand the IFS therapy process can be applied in the context of play therapy.

Outline

  • Brief overview of the IFS model and how to apply to working with children and adolescents
  • Explore the correlation between the tenets of play therapy and IFS therapy
  • Specific applications/activities to use with children & adolescents

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Nurses
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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