Perceptions Press

🌈 New Release: Volume II Now Available! 📚
Transformative Expressions in Play Therapy: Working with LGBTQ+ Clients
Co-Edited by Kurt W. Oster, LCSW, RPT™ & Dr. Margot Wilson

🧠✨ Featuring the groundbreaking chapter by Dr. Kevin O’Connor—“Ecosystemic Play Therapy of Children with Minority Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Sexual Characteristics (M-SOGIESC)”—this volume is a powerful step forward in identity-affirming play therapy practice.

🔍 What’s Inside This Chapter?
Dr. O’Connor, creator of Ecosystemic Play Therapy (EPT) and Director of ADEPT, presents a holistic, developmentally-attuned, and goal-oriented framework that centers the real-life systems surrounding LGBTQ+ children—schools, families, faith, politics, and beyond.
💡 Key Highlights Include:
✅ A structured case conceptualization process rooted in developmental needs and systemic realities
✅ Multisystemic treatment goals that actively involve caregivers and empower children
✅ A unique playroom setup that prioritizes the therapist-child relationship as the core healing tool
✅ Deep integration of cultural, emotional, and identity-based play and therapeutic processes
✅ A compassionate focus on resilience, identity development, and self-worth in the face of systemic oppression
💬 “In EPT, the therapist is the most important toy in the room.”
—Kevin O’Connor, PhD, ABPP, RPT-S™
📖 Whether you’re a play therapist, educator, or mental health clinician, this chapter is essential for those who want to create safe, structured, and affirming spaces for M-SOGIESC children navigating complex systems.

🔗 Now available in Volume II of Transformative Expressions in Play Therapy
💥 Order your copy today at Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/1998522180and advance your practice with one of the field’s most respected voices.

Kurt Wilhelm Oster-Author Perceptions Press

🌈 NEW RELEASE SPOTLIGHT 📘✨
Transformative Expressions in Play Therapy: Working with LGBTQ+ Clients, Volume II
Co-edited by Kurt W. Oster, LCSW, RPT™ & Dr. Margot Wilson, PhD.

Featured Chapter:
"How Oaklander’s Gestalt Play Therapy Affirms LGBTQ+ Clients"
by Dr. Karen Fried, PsyD, LMFT

In this powerful and timely chapter, Dr. Fried explores how Violet Oaklander’s groundbreaking Gestalt Play Therapy model offers a nurturing, creative, and affirming space for LGBTQ+ youth. Through sensory engagement, expressive arts, and the I-Thou relationship, this approach supports identity exploration, emotional regulation, and healing from the trauma of societal rejection.

🔎 Learn how:
✔️ Gestalt techniques strengthen the sense of self
✔️ Expressive activities help reclaim disowned identities
✔️ Therapists can meet LGBTQ+ youth with cultural competence, play-based empathy, and deep respect

📚 A must-read for play therapists, mental health professionals, and anyone working with LGBTQ+ children and adolescents.

💥 Available now for pre-order!
👉https://www.amazon.com/stores/Kurt-W-Oster/author/B0CQ6ZNWQQ

Oaklander Training Perceptions Press Kurt Wilhelm Oster-Author

🔥 The Saga That’s Captivating the World 🔥

🏆 INTERNATIONAL IMPACT BOOK AWARDS WINNER 🏆

Discover the epic that’s setting the literary world on fire — House of Phoenix Chronicles by Kurt W. Oster!

From the ashes of forgotten realms rises a story of power, destiny, and redemption. This critically acclaimed fantasy series has already won global recognition — and it’s only just begun. With masterful world-building, unforgettable characters, and plot twists that will leave you breathless, Kurt Oster has crafted a universe readers can’t stop talking about.

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