You want to become an exceptional child-centered play therapist. We built an entire training pathway around that ambition—with the depth, precision, and personal coaching that mastery demands.
Your journey begins with Foundations · January 2027
Know where you’re going. See how you’ll get there.
Begin with a thorough understanding of the model. Bring it into your sessions with feedback. Then develop the reasoning to understand the child’s process more deeply.
Know the model
Understand the history, theory, Model-Based Clinical Reasoning, and response skills that make CCPT a complete model.
Practice the model
Put your session work in focus. Video review with Brenna anchors each meeting, alongside clinical teaching and parent consultation work.
Reason within the model
Examine your work more closely through advanced video review, self-review and response coding, themes, and model-based case conceptualization.
Foundations runs every semester. Clinical begins in summer, followed by Expert in fall.
Starts January 12
Starts the first week of May **
Starts the first week of September **
** = Meeting day and time TBA.
Foundations · Starts
Start here, whether you’re a graduate student or a practicing therapist seeking a thorough grounding in CCPT. Learn directly from Brenna for 15 consecutive weeks, in 60-minute sessions with lecture and questions.
Clinical · Planned for Summer 2027
Review play session video with Brenna in every meeting. Apply what you learned in Foundations to your work in the playroom and in parent consultations.
Explore ClinicalExpert · Planned for Fall 2027
Use advanced video review and code your own responses. Examine themes across play sessions and practice explaining therapeutic change to parents.
Explore Expert
One instructor. Every step of the way.
Dr. Brenna Hicks personally teaches every Foundations class and leads every Clinical and Expert cohort.
She brings more than 20 years of CCPT experience to your training. In Foundations, she helps you connect the theory, reasoning, and response skills. In the coaching levels, she reviews your session work and gives feedback directly.
CCPT Mastery is a program of The Hicks Group, LLC, built around our commitment to preserve the integrity of the model while helping therapists practice it more faithfully.
Meet the organization behind your training →Before you begin
Brenna personally teaches every Foundations class and leads every Clinical and Expert cohort. In the coaching levels, you receive video review and feedback directly from her.
Clinical and Expert are each capped at four participants per cohort. Foundations is lecture-based and has unlimited enrollment.
No. Foundations is the entry point into the pathway. Discovery calls take place after Foundations for those interested in the Clinical coaching program.
Applications for NBCC, ASWB, and APT approval are in progress. Approval has not yet been confirmed, and no credit is currently promised. Confirmed credit details and all course-specific CE requirements will appear in the applicable CE-Go listing.
The first Foundations class begins in January 2027. Explore the Foundations, Clinical, and Expert course pages for program details and tuition. See the Foundations registration page for the session schedule and enrollment details.
Participants interested in applying what they’ve learned through small-group coaching can schedule a discovery call for Clinical. Expert is a subsequent level for Clinical graduates and is currently in development.