# Event Details - **Event Name**: Supporting Transracial Adoptive Families Using Play Therapy - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 24 Apr, 2026 at 09:00 am – Fri, 24 Apr, 2026 at 03:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Discuss working with transracial adoptees and adoptive families in therapy. To gain knowledge in this are from therapist who is an adoptee.About this EventPlay Therapy Topic Options: Special Topics and Applicants ChoiceDescription:This is a 4-hour in-person training will highlight the importance of understanding attachment theory in working with transracial Adoptee and their families.This training will allow clinicians to discuss and explore the significance of race and ethnicity in their lives and the lives of clients with whom they work. And the importance of understanding attachment theory in working with transracial families.This webinar will discuss and explore how to best support transracial Adoptees and their families using attachment-based therapies.And how to work with adoptive parents/caregivers about the issues of race and culture involved in foster care and adoption.During the webinar, there will be opportunities to discuss working with Adoptee and their families in a supportive and honest way to educate parents while effectively protecting children's cultural needs.Topics: Play Therapy, Families, Children, Teens, Adoption. AttachmentWho should attend: mental health professionals, child welfare workers, social workers, and counselors.L earning Objectives:1. List the unique joys and challenges Adoptees and their families may be experiencing in individual and family therapy sessions.2. Define the term: "racial identity" and give two examples of issues that individuals who are transracial/transcultural Adoptees may experience concerning racial identity in family play therapy.3. Identify several barriers that transracial Adoptees and adoptive families may experience in discussing race with their clinician in family play therapy sessions.4. Assess the importance of parents, caregivers, and helping professionals to understand their own attachment experiences and implicit biases.Lunch and snacks are included in your ticket price. Next Place Therapy Services, LLC is an approved provider with the Association for Play Therapy. 3 Play Therapy Non-Contact Hours (Sponsored by Next Place Therapy Services, LLC #17-526).Next Place Therapy Services, LLC, provider #2107 , is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards(ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Next Place Therapy Services, LLC maintains responsibility for this course.ACE provider approval period: 07/30/2024–07/30/2028. Social workers participating in this course receive 4.0 continuing education credits.Next Place Therapy Services, LLC is an approved provider with the NBCC, ACEP No. 7270. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are identified. Next Place Therapy Services, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.Contact Information:For questions, concerns, or special accommodation requests:Contact Sabra Starnes, Owner Phone: 301-531-4227 or Email: info@nextplacetherapy.comAbout the Presenter:Sabra Starnes is a Clinical Social Worker, a transracial Adoptee, and an adoptive mother of two sons. Sabra and her twin sister were adopted as infants in a closed domestic adoption. Growing up in a transracial family in the Midwest had many joys and challenges. Sabra and her family experienced racism and discrimination as a transracial family.As an expert adoption therapist for the past 24 years, she has the personal experience and professional training to work with Adoptees and adoptive families. She strongly advocates for children in care to have permanency or reunify with their birth families.She is the Founder of Next Place Therapy Foundation, a non-profit she founded in 2020 with the mission to provide post-adoption support to the Adoptee and adoptive families locally and nationally.Sabra received her bachelor's in Social Work from Bennett College, her Master's in Social Work from Catholic University, and a Master's in Education from American University. She specializes in adoption, foster care, parenting issues, and skills.She provides adoption counseling and consultation using an attachment-based therapy connected with expressive therapies. Furthermore, she is passionate about her clinical work in speaking and training on adoption locally and nationally on various adoption topics to amply the adoptee experience.As a lifelong learner, she has received training in Brainspotting, EMDR, IFS, Sandtray, Theraplay, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, and Trusted Behavior Relation Intervention. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/ff289d60-f49d-11f0-a0d9-23f031643b6b-rimg-w493-h740-dcdfd7d1-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/upper-marlboro/supporting-transracial-adoptive-families-using-play-therapy/100001980654142859 - **Event Categories**: workshops, sports, virtual, webinar, health-wellness, kids, mental-health - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 156.57, max: 156.57, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Upper Marlboro - **state**: MD - **country**: United States - **location**: 1400 Mercantile Ln - **lat**: 38.9092365 - **long**: -76.8384744 - **full address**: 1400 Mercantile Ln, 1400 Mercantile Lane, Upper Marlboro, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Supporting Transracial Adoptive Families Using Play Therapy - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/81f318984a7409a79c8579ed0158d117a0d3a8221744c7eff131329e54c48d2f-rimg-w1200-h600-dc306694-gmir.jpg?v=1768761989 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Supporting Transracial Adoptive Families Using Play Therapy being held? - **A:** Supporting Transracial Adoptive Families Using Play Therapy takes place on Fri, 24 Apr, 2026 at 09:00 am to Fri, 24 Apr, 2026 at 03:00 pm at 1400 Mercantile Ln, 1400 Mercantile Lane, Upper Marlboro, United States. - **Q**: How much do tickets cost for Supporting Transracial Adoptive Families Using Play Therapy? - **A:** Tickets for Supporting Transracial Adoptive Families Using Play Therapy are priced at USD 157 per person. Here's a full breakdown of available ticket types:Ticket TypePriceAvailabilityIN PERSON TRAINING and Lunch TicketUSD 157 + USD 12 feeAvailable - **Q**: Who is organizing Supporting Transracial Adoptive Families Using Play Therapy? - **A:** Supporting Transracial Adoptive Families Using Play Therapy is organized by Sabra Starnes, LICSW,LCSW-C, RPT-S, M.Ed. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Supporting Transracial Adoptive Families Using Play Therapy is ideal for curious learners, students, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Upper Marlboro, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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She worked for 13 years in the District of Columbia Public School System as a School Social Worker.She is the founder of Next Place Therapy Services a private practice that has offices in Largo, Maryland, and Washington, DC.She became a Registered Play Therapist in 2003. And a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor in 2015. She presents both in-person and online play therapy training towards becoming a Registered Play Therapist.Sabra's training are engaging, humorous, and fun. She has a strong passion for educating and supporting clinicians to become effective and highly skilled play therapists.Sabra believes in the power of play and that play can heal children, families, and adults who are dealing with life challenges.She looks forward to having you attend training! Any questions please ask.The world needs Play Therapists!Next Place Therapy Services is an Approved Provider of Play Therapy #17-526GRIEVANCE POLICY: Next Place Therapy Services is fully committed to complying with all legal and ethical responsibilities to be non-discriminatory in promotional activities, program content, and in the treatment of attendees.While we go to great lengths to assure fair treatment for all and attempt to anticipate problems, we recognize that complaints will arise. When problems do present themselves, we will attempt to alleviate complaints as quickly as possible.Complaints relative to a speaker, contents of instructional materials being presented, an individual educational style being utilized, or facilities where training is held should be addressed with Sabra Starnes who will attempt to resolve the matter as expeditiously as possible.Play Well!Sabra  Starnes" } ] } ] ```