Author: Kristin Meany-Walen

Terry Kottman, Ph D, NCC, RPT-S, LMHC, founded The Encouragement Zone, where she provides play therapy training and supervision, life coaching, counseling, and “layshops” for women. Dr. Kottman developed Adlerian play therapy, an approach that combines the ideas and techniques of Individual Psychology and play therapy. She regularly presents workshops and writes about play therapy, activity-based counseling, school counseling, and life coaching. She is the author of Partners in Play, Play Therapy: Basics and Beyond, and several other books. Kristin Meany-Walen, Ph D, LMHC, RPT-S, is an assistant professor of counseling at the University of Northern Iowa. Kristin actively researches and publishes articles that explore the effectiveness and implications of Adlerian play therapy. In addition to researching and teaching, she works with children and adolescents in school-based settings and private practice.