LUMOS TRAINING COLLECTIVE
REIGNITING PASSION FOR THERAPY AND SUPERVISION
Welcome to our Training Collective! We provide custom Continuing Education Trainings, Consultation, and Play Therapy™ Supervision
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NanDee Walker, NCC, LPC-S, RPT-S™
Trainer, Consultant, Play Therapy™ Supervisor
Continuing Education doesn’t need to be a chore! Informed and innovative training is engaging and enriching.
NanDee has been working with children in the Tulsa community for over 20 years. She began designing continuing education trainings when she realized training and supervision should and could be more than checked boxes. She has a passion for Supervision and Ethics and works towards demystifying those concepts in the Mental Health community.
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Melissa Winterscheid, LPC-S, RPT-S™
Trainer, Consultation, Play Therapy™ Supervisor
Gone are boring supervision and trainings!! We bring creativity and a new voice to continuing education in all its forms.
Melissa has been working in the world of children and family therapy for over 15 years. She has a background in Adlerian Play Therapy™, and believes in approaching continuing education from fresh vantage points to increase skills and knowledge.
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APT Approved Provider 25-782
Trainings
Custom Interactive Trainings designed to fit your topic needs and time-frames. Interactive Supervision and Ethics options. In Person or Virtual. Board Certified.
Consultation
In Person or Virtual Consultation for Supervision concerns, Ethical conundrums, Challenging Therapy situations, or growing your own practice.
Supervision
Providing LPC and Play Therapy™ Supervision in virtual or in person settings. Supervision you can trust and afford.
UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
October 10, 2025
Virtual - Zarrow Mental Health Symposium
Drowning in Empathy: Addressing Burnout
This beginner to advanced level training will engage those working in the Mental Health Field to examine their own wellness practices. Working as a caregiver utilizing play therapy in today's world has become increasingly more challenging. Therapists willingly engage in high stress encounters with clients and their guardians all while attempting to navigate the Post-Pandemic life of technological and administrative demands, financial concerns, a morass of politics, and a cornucopia of personal life situations. Marked levels of professional caregivers report a high degree of compassion fatigue and/or burnout, with Play Therapists reporting a lower than expected percentage of perceived self-efficacy. This presentation will help participants understand the connection between empathy levels and one’s own access to resiliency; giving participant’s permission to acknowledge challenges and engage in quantifiable change in self-care practices.
January 30-31, 2026
Midwest City OK - OKAPT Annual Conference
Drowning in Empathy: Ethical Considerations for Play Therapists
This beginner to advanced level training will engage those working in the Mental Health Field to examine their own wellness practices. Working as a caregiver utilizing play therapy in today's world has become increasingly more challenging. Therapists willingly engage in high stress encounters with clients and their guardians all while attempting to navigate the Post-Pandemic life of technological and administrative demands, financial concerns, a morass of politics, and a cornucopia of personal life situations. Marked levels of professional caregivers report a high degree of compassion fatigue and/or burnout, with Play Therapists reporting a lower than expected percentage of perceived self-efficacy. This presentation will help participants understand the connection between empathy levels and one’s own access to resiliency; giving participant’s permission to acknowledge challenges and engage in quantifiable change in self-care practices.
Don’t Be The Villain In Someone else’s Play Therapy Supervision Story
Supervision is a complex and powerful process of interacting with new therapists still learning ethical practices and healthy professional development. Play Therapy Supervision engages therapists at many stages of development in playful and empirically driven Play Therapy modalities. This interactive in-park training will enable and empower Supervisors to increase their own understanding and utilization of Supervision Theories and how to apply those theories to Supervision in and parallel to Playful Supervision. Participants will explore their own accountability as Supervisors in order to increase effectiveness in both the Supervisor and the Supervisee.
Lurking Around the Corner…… Sept 2026
Disneyland, Anaheim California
Look for us at this incredible upcoming conference!!
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
Previous Conferences and Presentations:
Shall We Play a Game?
Creoks Learning Institute - Supervision Utilizing Bibliotherapy
Zarrow Conference - Bibliotherapy: Connection Through Characters
You Don’t Need the Force to Be an Ethics Master
Disney Bound Conference - Wonderful World of Supervision
Disney Bound Conference - Ethics in a Non-Fantasy Play Therapy Land 3/13/25
Wonderful World of Supervision in Oklahoma
Ethics in a Non-Fantasy Play Therapy Land