Core Faculty: Co-Directors

Lorri Yasenik and Ken Gardner are the co-directors of the Rocky Mountain Play Therapy Institute and are internationally recognized in the field of play therapy as certified play therapists, supervisors, instructors and presenters. Lorri has been working with children and families in the areas of treatment of trauma, high conflict separation and divorce, and a range of situational and developmental issues during the course of her therapy career. Lorri is a Certified/Registered Play Therapy Supervisor, a Clinical Social Worker, a Registered Family Mediator with the Alberta Family Mediation Society, and is a founding member and past executive board member of the Alberta Play Therapy Association. Ken is a Certified/Registered Play Therapy Supervisor and a clinical psychologist who specializes in the areas of learning/adjustment issues, therapy for children with development challenges, achievement motivation, attachment, and play therapy. Ken has participated on numerous community boards, including the Alberta Play Therapy Association and the Canadian Association for Child and Play Therapy . In addition to having a sound background in treatment, Lorri and Ken have extensive experience as consultants and trainers and regularly teach for College and University programs in the areas of play therapy, mediation, assessment and counseling. They are the authors of Play Therapy Dimensions Model: A Decision Making Guide for Therapists, which is now in it’s second printing.

Additional Members of the Training Faculty:

Senior tutors, who themselves are widely recognized as expert instructors and clinicians, provide the following areas of instruction:
• Expressive arts
• Attachment theory
• Drama & movement
• Legal/ethical issues
• Music
• Family systems work & family play therapy
• Sandplay
• Puppetry