A New Hope Academy

06/05/2026

🌿 Building Community Beyond the Training Room 🌿

One of the most meaningful parts of being a therapist is realizing that we don't have to do this work alone.

Whether we've connected through a training, consultation group, supervision, conference, or online community, let's continue supporting one another, sharing resources, celebrating wins, and learning together.

✨ Drop your social media handle in the comments!
✨ Tell us where you're located and what populations you love working with.
✨ Follow a few fellow therapists while you're here.

Let's create a space where therapists can find collaboration, inspiration, referrals, consultation opportunities, and genuine connection.

Because community is not just something we help our clients build it's something we need, too. 💙

06/05/2026

Hurry... our 🏳️‍🌈 Pride Month Community Offer 🏳️‍🌈 ends at MIDNIGHT TONIGHT.

You can still register for our one-day training Geek Culture, Play, and Identity Work with LGBTQIA+ Clients for just $85 (our standard professional rate is $175).

Because LGBTQIA+ child and adult clients deserve culturally-responsive care from clinicians who understand how to intentionally work with the power of geek culture, fandom, and symbolic play.

Grab your spot today ✨

📅 Friday June 26
🎓 6 APT + NBCC CEs
💻 Live Zoom Webinar

Register: anewhopeacademy.org/lgbtqia

06/04/2026

🎮 Supervisors Assemble… because The Supervisor’s Playroom is happening THIS MONTH 🕹️

On June 18, we’re bringing together supervisory powerhouses Dr. Rachel Altvater and Liliana Baylon for a one-day immersive virtual experience exploring supervision across screens, languages, and cultures.

This day is especially designed to help you navigate the evolving realities of supervisory work with creativity, cultural responsiveness, and practical tools you can immediately use.

And this year, you have options:
✔️ Attend the full day
✔️ Join just the morning or afternoon session
✔️ Grab a recordings-only ticket and learn at your own pace

🎮 Morning Session: Supervising Play Therapy in Virtual and Digital Spaces

💬 Afternoon Session: Culturally Responsive Play Therapy Supervision: Power, Language, and Belonging

🗓️ June 18 | 9:00 AM–4:30 PM (MT)
🎯 Up to 6 APT & NBCC CEs
🎟️ Sliding scale
🔗 Register: anewhopeacademy.org/supervisors-playroom

06/04/2026

Huge thanks to the NMSU School of Nursing for having me in to talk with your psychiatric nursing students this week! Getting to share how play therapy fits into mental health care with the next generation of nurses is something I genuinely love doing. These students asked sharp questions and brought real curiosity to the room. Wishing everyone a strong finish to bootcamp week! 🎮🧠💙

06/03/2026

Wisdom Wednesdays: 🎭 “Sometimes life is like this tunnel. You can't always see the light at the end… but if you keep going, you'll come to a better place.” — Uncle Iroh, ATLA
When clients feel stuck, remind them: the tunnel isn’t forever.

06/03/2026

This training was... well... popular, and for good reason. 💚

Here’s what one of our attendees said about their experience with Wicked: The Shadow and Magic of Jungian Play Therapy:

“I appreciated the presenter's extensive knowledge on the topic and how he utilized Wicked in his presentation! It made it easier to understand this theory! I appreciated his passion for Jungian Analytical Play Therapy, it made it more fun to learn from him.”

If you missed it live, you can now defy gravity and unlock 6 theory CEs that are actually fun... on-demand. ✨

Join Jared Andes, LCSW, RPT-S, for a creatively rich exploration of Jungian-informed play therapy through shadow, symbolic play, archetypes, and imagination. You’ll learn how to:

✨ Identify archetypal themes in children’s play
✨ Work more confidently with persona and shadow material
✨ Deepen symbolic meaning-making with clients
✨ Help children reclaim hidden strengths through play

🔗 anewhope.thinkific.com/courses/wicked

06/03/2026

Motivational Mondays: You don’t need a Time Turner to fix everything in one session. Where are you rushing growth?

06/02/2026

Working toward your Registered Play Therapist™ credential?

While our Play Academy now has an online-only offering for those of you unable to attend our events in New Mexico, the APT still requires 75 contact hours of in-person, interactive trainings.

So if you’re in another state and looking for high-quality, APT-approved CE trainings, gather a group of local therapists and we’ll travel to you!

Our engaging, pop-culture-inspired workshops are designed to make learning meaningful, practical, and fun.

Want to host a training for your community?

Email Maria at [email protected] to start the conversation!

Find out more about our Play Academy here: anewhopeacademy.org/playacademy

06/02/2026

🚨 FREE supervisor consult - tomorrow morning! 🚨

Supervisors, this one's for you. 💙

Being a supervisor can feel lonely. You're holding space for your supervisees, navigating complex cases, AND trying to figure out the stuff nobody taught you in grad school. You deserve a place to think out loud too.

That's exactly what this is.

Join me tomorrow for a free group consultation where you can bring your real questions, your hard cases, your "am I doing this right?" moments, and get support from someone who gets it.

📅 Tomorrow
⏰ 8:30–10:00am MDT
💻 Zoom
✅ FREE

Register at the link below 👇
www.anewhopeacademy.org/consultation

See you there! 🧡

🌟 Supervisors need support too! 🌟

Join our Free Online Supervisor Consultation Group — a space designed for clinical supervisors, by clinical supervisors. Connect, collaborate, and gain fresh insight into your supervision practice while preventing burnout and deepening your professional growth.

✨Spots are limited — register today and invest in YOU!
June 3rd, 8:30 - 10:00 AM MST via Zoom
https://www.anewhopeacademy.org/consultation

06/01/2026

As we enter Pride Month, we’ve been thinking a lot about the spaces where LGBTQIA+ people first explore what it could be like to exist more fully. For many, it isn’t at home, school, or in the workplace, or local community. Sometimes it is through a fictional character. A game. A TV show.

And when therapists learn how to work intentionally with this material, it opens up incredibly meaningful therapeutic possibilities for child and adult LGBTQIA+ clients alike.

That's why we're committed to making sure the specialized knowledge from our one day online training 'Geek Culture, Play, and Identity Work with LGBTQIA+ Clients' gets into as many clinicians' hands as possible.

🏳️‍🌈So until Friday we're extending our accessible rate to attend the training live for just $85 (our standard professional rate is $175) to everyone ✨

So grab your spot, tag your therapy buddies, and let’s build more affirming spaces together 🏳️‍🌈

📅 Friday June 26, 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM (MT)
🎓 6 APT + NBCC CEs
💻 Live Zoom Webinar

Register: anewhopeacademy.org/lgbtqia