A Self-Paced Training for Creative Clinicians Using D&D One-on-One

What if your therapy sessions felt like a collaborative quest?
What if your client’s inner world became an epic story of healing?

Welcome to a fun and engaging approach that brings the power of Dungeons and Dragons into the individual therapy space.

🎓 COURSE FORMAT: Pre-Recorded Training

⏱ SELF-PACED • INSTANT ACCESS

📚 DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCE PACK INCLUDED

⚔️ ABOUT THE COURSE:

Whether you’re brand new to D&D or already a dice-rolling therapist, this training will guide you through the foundations of one-on-one therapeutic play using Dungeons & Dragons.

You’ll learn how to integrate play therapy, narrative, and creative counseling principles into a personalized D&D experience for your client—no group required.

This isn’t just theory—it’s a fully equipped, clinically-informed framework with tools you can start using right away.

🧠 WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:

✅ Theoretical Foundations
Explore the core models and approaches that make D&D therapeutically rich—even in individual settings.

✅ Therapeutic Elements of the Game
Identify built-in opportunities for growth, insight, regulation, and relationship within the game mechanics and story arcs.

✅ Creative & Play Therapy Integration
Blend your orientation and clinical training with a fantasy-based roleplaying experience.

✅ Therapeutic “Access Points”
Learn how and where to intervene—from character creation to story progression and conflict resolution.

✅ Client-Centered Adaptability
Explore how to tailor campaigns to different ages, goals, and therapeutic needs using your own style and expertise.

📦 DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCE PACK INCLUDES:

🧭 Facilitator Adventure Guide – Quick-reference rules & tips
📖 Mini-Modules – Short therapeutic storylines to use immediately
🪄 Coping Spell Cards – Creative emotional regulation tools
🗺 Quest Maps – Visual aids for therapeutic journeying
💎 Values Card Sort – For character or client exploration
🛡 Strengths Card Sort – Build characters that reflect internal resources
🔄 Character Flowchart – Helps clients explore identity, motivation & growth
📝 Documentation Worksheets – Support clinical notes & tracking
…and much more!

💬 WHAT THERAPISTS ARE SAYING:

“This course helped me bridge clinical skills and creativity like never before.”
— LMFT, Washington

“I’ve run group D&D sessions for years—but this opened a whole new world for individual work. Amazing.”
— LCSW, Oregon

“It’s not just fun—it’s clinically solid, thoughtful, and totally usable.”
— Play Therapist, North Carolina

🧙‍♂️ WHO IT’S FOR:

  • Play Therapists
  • Expressive Arts Therapists
  • Child & Adolescent Counselors
  • Geek-Culture-Informed Clinicians
  • Therapists looking to deepen rapport & creativity in individual work
  • Therapists looking for ways to connect to nerdy, quiet, or shy clients

🎁 ENROLL NOW & LEVEL UP YOUR PRACTICE

Imagine sessions that feel like quests.
Imagine your client as the hero.
Imagine having the tools and structure to guide them—step by step.

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Do I have to have experience playing D&D?

NO! When this course launches, there will be an optional add-on mini-course for beginners that will outline how to play!

Is this training focused on support children or adults?

This training relies heavily on play and creative arts therapies for children, tweens, and teens. It can absolutely be adapted to work with adults, but it isn’t the focus of the training.

What type of therapists can benefit from this training?

So many different therapists can benefit from this! Geared towards therapists working with children, tweens, teens, and young adults, child therapists, creative arts therapists, music therapists, rec therapists, and other would benefit from this course. This training is mostly mental health focused but we incorporate TONS of creative arts and expressive modalities throughout the training.

Do you learn how to run groups in this training?

No, although there will be elements of engaging with your cohort, this training does not teach you how to run D&D groups or group D&D therapy. I HIGHLY recommend Julia Stamanns training at Heart of the Realm for learning about running groups for adults — it was SUCH an amazing training!

We will have a future course dedicated to supporting tween and teen group Dungeons and Dragons Therapy, so stay tuned!

What is your grievance policy?

We are dedicated to providing quality material and educational opportunities that adhere to counseling and mental health ethics. Please read our full policy here.

Is this eligible for CE’s?

At this time, no. In the future I would like to get this training approved for continuing education credits. You will receive a certificate that demonstrates the amount of hours you have completed towards the course plus an outline of learning objectives. You may use this information to apply for credit approval, but this cannot be guaranteed.