CCPT Mastery

CCPT Mastery: Foundations

Know the model.
Build your foundation.

A 15-week child-centered play therapy course covering the history, theory, reasoning, and response skills of the complete model. First class begins January 2027.

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YOUR PATH TO MASTERY
  1. START HEREFoundations

    Know the model.

  2. Clinical

    Put it into practice.

  3. Expert

    Deepen your clinical reasoning.

One connected pathway.
A stronger clinician at every stage.
Tuition per participant
$1,499
Class size
Unlimited enrollment
Each semester
15 consecutive weeks
Your instructor & coach
Dr. Brenna Hicks

Brenna teaches every 60-minute class, with lecture and opportunities for questions. No discovery call is required to begin Foundations.

60-minute weekly sessions. First Foundations class begins January 2027.

2027 Foundations Schedule

Each cohort meets weekly for 15 one-hour sessions.

Spring 2027
January 12
Summer 2027
First week of May **
Fall 2027
First week of September **

** = Meeting day and time TBA.

Your first semester

Rigorous learning.
A clear starting point.

Foundations is designed for therapists and graduate students seeking a thorough grounding in CCPT. Brenna personally teaches every class, connecting the model’s foundations to the reasoning behind your responses, with space for questions.

First class
January 2027
Course length
15 weeks
Weekly session
60 minutes
Format
Lecture + questions

What you’ll study

From the foundations
to the responses.

Each 60-minute class includes lecture and opportunities to ask questions at natural stopping points.

Explore all eleven response categories, with ten taught in depth. Enlarging the meaning is introduced here and taught in depth in Clinical.

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Weeks 1–4Understand the complete model
  1. Week 1: Course orientation and introduction to the Summit Framework
  2. Week 2: History of CCPT
  3. Week 3: Theory and philosophy — Part 1: The guiding beliefs of CCPT
  4. Week 4: Theory and philosophy — Part 2: CCPT as a complete model
Weeks 5–6Model-Based Clinical Reasoning

Two weeks dedicated to the layer between theory and skills: connecting the model’s beliefs with the reasoning behind therapist responses.

  1. Week 5: Model-Based Clinical Reasoning — Part 1: From Belief to Clinical Decision
  2. Week 6: Model-Based Clinical Reasoning — Part 2: Choosing Responses That Serve the Child
Weeks 7–9The foundational reflective responses
  1. Week 7: Tracking behavior
  2. Week 8: Reflecting content
  3. Week 9: Reflecting feelings
Weeks 10–14Develop your response skills
  1. Week 10: Choice-giving
  2. Week 11: Limit-setting
  3. Week 12: Encouragement and esteem-building responses
  4. Week 13: Narrative commentary, with an introduction to enlarging the meaning
  5. Week 14: “I wonder” statements and the whisper technique
Week 15Confidence to practice CCPT with fidelity
  1. Week 15: CCPT Evidence and fidelity to the model