Welcome to Theraplay® Denmark
Welcome to the website of Theraplay® Denmark. We are the Danish affiliate of the Theraplay® Institute in Chicago and a member of the global Theraplay family.
Theraplay was developed over 60 years ago in Chicago and is now practiced around the world. In Denmark, neuroaffective developmental psychology has helped generate curiosity about and interest in the method, and in 2010, the Danish Theraplay training programme was launched at the initiative of psychologists Marie Olsen-Kludt and Anne Stahlschmidt. We also run Theraplay® Denmark.
The two modules that make up the Theraplay training programme are available through us. In addition, we continually offer master classes that provide additional insights into the method.
Our activities are motivated by a desire to contribute to professional development by maintaining and refining the method to ensure that it is compatible with the therapeutic and educational environment in Denmark. This effort is driven by an interdisciplinary approach and respect for differences in the participants’ professional qualifications. As head of Theraplay® Denmark, Marie Olsen-Kludt is the direct liaison to the Theraplay® Institute in the United States.
The work of Theraplay® Denmark is supported by a steering group, which currently includes Charlotte Hagmund-Hansen, Camilla Gravgaard Birkler, Anne Larsen, and Marie Colding Ngounou. All the steering group members have been involved in implementing the method in Denmark from the very beginning, and over the years, they have acquired international certification as therapists, supervisors, and trainers.
The steering group has an important task in preserving and developing the method to ensure that it maintains its unique and particular approach to and understanding of vulnerable children, young persons, and families while providing optimal conditions for members of different professions to develop their mastery of the method through training and certification.
About our master classes
Depending on your educational background, practical experience, and interests, you can choose to delve into a variety of areas to support your Theraplay practice.
Over the years, we have held a number of master classes with trainers from both Denmark and abroad to work in depth with different topics in an inspiring group environment with Theraplay as our shared framework and focus:
2023
- When is it necessary to talk about a hard situation or a traumatic event within a Theraplay session, and how is it done? (Dafna Lender, USA)
2022
- Parenting, mentalizing, and Theraplay (Saara Salo, Finland)
2019
- Working with Theraplay in pregnancy and infancy and with toddlers (Saara Salo, Finland)
- Using Theraplay interactions during the stabilization phase of families with complex traumas (Mary Ring, USA)
- Allegories, metaphors, and sensory objects: How to introduce mental images in Theraplay to facilitate the processing of trauma history (Donna Gates and David Gates, USA)
- From assessment to Theraplay treatment (Susan Hart, Denmark)
2018
- Combining Family Systems and Theraplay (Donna Gates and David Gates, USA)
- Interpersonal neurobiology/awareness of the autonomic nervous system for precision regulation during Theraplay treatment (Mary Ring, USA)
- The role of the senses in Theraplay (Connie Nissen, Denmark)
- Combining Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) and Theraplay (Dafna Lender, USA)
- Dyadic Development Psychotherapy (DDP), level 1 (Dafna Lender, USA)
2017
- Combining NMT (Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics) and Theraplay (Mary Ring, USA)
- Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), level 2 (Dafna Lender, USA)
- Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), level 1 (Dafna Lender, USA)
2016
- Introduction to Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) (Mary Ring, USA)
- MIMEIS, MIM with pregnant women, MIM with families (Saara Salo, Finland)
2015
- The neuroaffective compasses as a navigation instrument in MIM assessments and Theraplay interventions (Susan Hart, Denmark, and Phyllis Booth, USA)
2014
- Theraplay with groups (Phyllis Rubin, USA)
- Theraplay with parents (Mary Ring, USA)
2010
- Theraplay with groups (Dafna Lender, USA)
