Greetings play therapy enthusiasts! TAPT is off to another great year. I
am excited to be joining you as the new board President and grateful for
the incredible group of folks I will be working with. Last year was my
first year serving on the board as President-Elect and it was indeed a
learning experience. I would like to thank our current Past-President
Leah Miller for guiding me through the process of organizing a
conference. I owe a great deal of gratitude to her for her advice,
encouragement and wisdom. In my experience her ﾓbusiness senseﾔ is a
great asset to our board.
We are currently moving ahead to plan this yearﾒs 16th Annual Texas
Association for Play Therapy Conference in San Antonio. Mark your
calendarﾒs for April 3-5, 2009. Our President-elect, Dr. Mary
Morrison and her conference committee met this summer to begin
strategizing and the ﾓbuzzﾔ is that with San Antonio being a ﾓgreat
destinationﾔ city, this is one conference that will be surely be on your
ﾓfavoritesﾔ list. The Omni San Antonio at The Colonnade is the
conference hotel and is quite luxurious and at a reasonable conference
rate. Our conference title this year is ﾓHealing Hearts through Play.ﾔ
The key note speaker, Paris Goodyear-Brown, is sure to be a crowd
pleaser. We look forward to seeing you there as we reconnect with old
friends and make new acquaintances.
Yvonne Garza, Ph.D., LMSW, LPC, Registered Play Therapist
