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Healing Hearts Through Play

16th Annual Texas Association for Play Therapy Conference
April 3-5, 2009
The Omni San Antonio at The Colonnade
San Antonio, TX

Key Note Speaker: Paris Goodyear-Brown, LCSW, RPT-S

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CHAPTERS

TAPT Chapters
Alamo Chapter Coastal Bend Chapter Far West Chapter
Hill Country Chapter North Texas Chapter Rio Grande Valley Chapter
Sam Houston Chapter    
Alamo Chapter
Cecilia Alvarez, LPCS,LMFTS,LPA,RPTS
San Antonio
Meetings:
We meet 6 times a year (February, April, June, August, December)
Location:
Jewish Community Center on NW Military HWY

You are able to receive 9 hours of LPC, MSW, Psychologist, and RPT CEU's. The opportunities for networking and building a support system are another plus! You are cordially invited to join us.
Contact:
Cecilia Alvarez, LPCS,LMFTS,LPA,RPTS
calvarez@judson.k12.tx.us

actapt@yahoo.com  
Coastal Bend Chapter
Julie Thigpen
Corpus Christi

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Meetings:
Regular meetings are the third Wednesday of each month from noon to 1:30 P.M. Special events are planned for the coming year. Free CEU's for members.
Location:
First Baptist Church Recreation Center on Ocean Drive
Contact:
Donna Smith cbplytherapy@yahoo.com

Far West Chapter
Mary Kaiser, MA, LPC, NCC, RPT-S
El Paso
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Meetings:
Meetings are held four times per year at various locations. Updates can be found at fwtapt.com
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Location:
Locations can be found at fwtapt.com.
Contact:
Mary Kaiser, MA, LPC, NCC, RPT-S
mary@solbuilding.com

North Texas Chapter
Connie Moulder, MEd, LPC, RPT
Bonham

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Meetings:
The chapter meets the second Saturday of every September, November, January, March and May.

We are an approved provider of CEU's for APT, LPC, MFT. Individual Professional -dues are $35. Individual Retiree- dues are $35. Student dues are $25.
Location:
Coppell YMCA, 146 Town Center, Blvd, Coppell, Tx 75019
Contacts:
Connie B. Moulder, LPC
Registered Play Therapist
Cbm1439@hotmail.com

See our website http://www.texasplaytherapy.org

Hill Country Chapter
Denise Hall, MN, RN, CS, RPT-S
Austin

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Meetings:
Generally meets the 2nd Friday of every month from 11:30 - 12:00 for a business meeting and has a presenter immediately following from 12:00 - 1:00 P.M. (Brown Bag lunch). *We don't meet in April because of the state conference, we don't have a regular meeting in January (see below).

CEU's are provided free of charge to our membership. Recent presentations have included the use of music, art, and Sandplay in our practices. The meetings are great fun, inspiring, and a wonderful opportunity for networking. Chapter dues are $15.00 per year.

Every January, we have an overnight workshop/retreat in Wimberley, TX, at Rocky River Ranch. The topics for this workshop vary, but we generally try to have a theme running through three separate presentations. Most recently the themes have been Filial Therapy and Experiential/Expressive Therapies.
Location:
Generally meets at the Austin Child Guidance Center, 45th and North Lamar
Contact:
Joey Achacoso joey_achacoso@yahoo.com or Nichole Overman at nichole.overman@tbch.org

Sam Houston Chapter
Gabriel Lomas , PhD ­ Candidate, LPC-S
Houston

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Meetings:
The chapter meets six times per year. We have four general meetings, a dinner meeting in the fall, and a winter workshop each January or February. Please visit our website at www.SHAPT.org and click on Calendar for meeting times and location.
Location:
All general meetings are held at the Cypress-Fairbanks Instructional Support Center, 10300 Jones Road, Houston, TX 77065
Contact:
Gabriel Lomas , PhD ­ Candidate, LPC-S
LomasG@UHCL.EDU

Rio Grande Valley Chapter
Alfred Crixell, Jr., M.Ed., LPC
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Meetings:

We meet every other month. Our next meeting will be May 3, 2007 from 6 pm to 7:30 pm

Location:

We meet at AXEL Medical & Oxygen Supply; 715 W. Pecan in McAllen.

Contact:

Alfred Crixell, Jr., M.Ed., LPC