Interactive, Experiential Continuing Education For Mental Health Professionals & Businesses
You will walk away with more knowledge, new skills, renewed energy, and meaningful connections to enhance your practice. In today’s fast-paced world and complex mental health systems, many practitioners feel overwhelmed, leading to burnout and other health problems. Dr. Garrett designed Brave Play to offer you a safe space with unique opportunities to nourish your personal and professional self.
About Dr. Garrett
Dr. Ashley Garrett, PhD, LPC-S, RPT-S, NCC, is the founder of Brave Play. Dr. Garrett has spent years working with clients as a counselor, providing supervision for counselors, and offering continuing education opportunities to professionals in various fields across the world. Explore more about Dr. Garrett and her background here.
Brave Play For Businesses
(Public & Private Sectors)
Brave Play for Businesses is designed with each organization’s unique needs in mind. The time for these workshops can range from 2-6 hours. These take place onsite and are highly interactive. Some topics that have been requested in the past include:
- Business Ethics of Managing Stress in the Workforce
- Team Cohesiveness: Increase effectiveness with attachment theory
- Developing Cultural Humility: How embracing individual cultures can improve team collaboration and reduce workplace microaggressions
- Sleeping Sound: Teaching sleep hygiene and increasing workplace productivity
- Collaborative Communication: Getting out of your brain and into your work community
- Corporate Mental Wellness: Getting in the headspace to promote mental health
Solo & Group Practice Consulting Services
One-on-One Consulting Packages
Customized for solo and group practice owners, or those preparing to launch, these packages provide targeted guidance on growth, compliance, and sustainability.
- 1-Hour Consulting Session $300
- 6-Month Consulting Package: 10 hours of 1:1 consulting, scheduled as needed over six months — Investment: $2,400 ($240/hr)
- 12-Month Consulting Package: 20 hours of 1:1 consulting, scheduled as needed over twelve months — Investment: $4,400 ($220/hr)
Consulting Topics May Include:
- Practice launch and expansion strategies
- Billing, collections, and financial management
- HIPAA compliance and risk mitigation
- Marketing, referrals, and client acquisition
- Leadership development and staffing systems
Solo & Group Practice Auditing Services
Fee: $325/hr
Ensure your practice meets the highest standards for compliance, productivity, and clinical quality.
Administrative Risk Assessment / Compliance
- Review billing compliance to prevent recoupment risks
- Assess chart documentation for productivity and company policy alignment
Clinical Risk Assessment / Compliance
- Evaluate assessments, session notes, treatment plans, letters, and termination documentation.
- Ensure clinical documentation aligns with ABEC and ethical standards
Final Audit Report
- Detailed written report ranking concerns as high, medium, or low risk
- Specific, actionable recommendations for both administrative and clinical compliance
- Each chart audited includes an individual report with improvement action steps
Internal Auditing System Development
Create a sustainable, in-house auditing system so your team can monitor compliance with confidence.
- Initial Training (2 hrs, team of up to 3): $600 flat — Includes recorded training for future staff onboarding.
- Follow-Up Q&A Support: $100/hr
Important Compliance Requirement: A Business Associate Agreement (BAA) is required under HIPAA regulations to grant our auditing team access to your records.
Optional Add-Ons
- Group consulting sessions for new practice owners at reduced per-person rates
- Quarterly compliance check-ins to maintain audit readiness
- Leadership coaching for practice owners growing beyond solo practice
Clinical Director & Supervisor Training for Increased Client Retention
High client retention is the foundation of a thriving practice. This service develops leadership capacity so your clinical team consistently delivers high-quality care, resulting in stronger client outcomes and business growth.
Leadership Training for Clinical Directors
We train your Clinical Director in our proven client retention model so they can effectively:
- Coach clinical supervisors in retention-focused leadership
- Help you develop systems for accountability and measurable outcomes
- Support clinicians in delivering consistent, evidence-based models that are client-centered
Supervisor Development Option
If your practice does not yet have a Clinical Supervisor in place, we can provide direct supervision for your clinical team while training a future supervisor in retention-focused leadership using evidence-based models.
Training Packages
- 1-Hour Consulting Session on Client Retention Model — $550
- Clinical Director Leadership Training Package — 10 hours of focused training for your Clinical Director on the retention model, team accountability systems, and leadership coaching — Investment: $4,000 ($400/hr)
- Supervisor Training & Direct Clinical Supervision Package — 20 hours of combined direct clinical supervision for your team and leadership training for the developing supervisor — Investment: $5,000 ($400/hr)
Optional Ongoing Support
- Quarterly leadership check-ins for continued growth and retention improvement
- On-demand coaching for clinical directors or supervisors facing retention challenges
Expected Outcomes
- Increased client retention and reduced dropout rates
- Consistent, measurable accountability for clinical supervisors and teams
- A scalable leadership model for long-term practice growth
Brave Play For Clinicians
Brave Play For Clinicians offers clinical workshops and training. Brave Play is an NBCC (National Board for Certificate Counselors) and APT (Association for Play Therapy) provider. Popular workshops we have presented are listed below. Upcoming scheduled continuing education opportunities can be viewed here.
- Sandtray for Beginners (Level-One): Sandtray for Beginners is a highly requested training opportunity. It is a two-day introductory workshop (12 hours) that teaches the basics of Sandtray and Sandplay ®, in play therapy, knowledge. Counselors will gain insight into foundational components of sandtray/play. Counselors will increase their knowledge in order to offer clients this experiential healing opportunity of self-expression, gaining access to the unconscious, and empowerment through creative problem-solving. Beginners Level. This workshop is perfect for teams that need to work through their own “stuff” in order to be able to show up and hold space for their clients.
- Sandtray for Beginners (Level-Two): This is a two-day advanced workshop (12 hours). Participants will gain advanced Sandtray therapy skills through class discussion, lecture, and experiential work. This workshop will examine the principles of Sandtray techniques and will fill your therapeutic tool-box with advanced Sandtray skills to incorporate this modality with individuals, couples, and small groups.
- Diagnostic Skills Using the DSM: This is a one-day introductory workshop (6-8 hours) DSM-5 revised provides mental health providers a greater understanding of the reconceptualized mental disorders with a broader view of the diagnostic process.This workshop highlights 3 of the more common disorders and classifications in the DSM 5 revised including generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, and adjustment disorders. Also, we will cover basics of the DSM manual and screeners.
- Treating Panic Disorder: This is a one-day intermediate level workshop (6 hours) The median age at onset for panic disorder in the United States is 20-24 years. This training will give you skills to help clients defeat a variety of anxieties, such as chronic worrying, public speaking, and panic attacks. Participants will explore Panic Disorder and Panic Attack Specifier.
- Ethical Considerations: Ethics workshops are highly requested, and we offer a variety of one-day workshops on ethics related to the mental health profession. We can cater to each organization’s specific needs.
- Play Therapy: We offer a variety of workshops on play therapy history, theory, practice and skills. We can cater to each organization’s needs.
- Developing Cultural Humility-Using the Cultural-Formulation-Interview: This is a highly requested training opportunity. It is a one-day beginner (or can be intermediate) workshop (6 hours). This training is designed for the counselor and play therapist in an agency, private practice, or school setting who is interested in learning more about using the Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) as a play therapy intervention. We will cover the primary rationale and research behind the CFI specific to directive play therapy. Participants will utilize sandtray and Brave Play to learn how to engage clients in self-reflection of their own culture and how it impacts their mental wellness. Counselors will increase insight on how their own culture can impact the therapeutic relationship.
- Brave Play Kit: This is a highly requested training opportunity. The Brave Play Kit is a tool used in therapy as a form of expressive therapy. Very similar to sand tray without the sand, the Brave Play Kit was developed by Dr. Ashley Garrett as a portable and less intimidating method of processing through experiential Play Therapy. Used with children, teens, and adults, Brave Play allows a person to reflect on their own life with opportunities to resolve conflicts, increase self-acceptance, and develop plans to remove obstacles in their life. Includes the cost of the kit for each attendee.
Booking & Pricing Information
Brave Play has limited openings available for the remainder of 2025, and we are also booking for 2026. To check availability, email us at garrett@garrettcounseling.com.
Pricing depends on each organization’s needs. A good rule of thumb is $400-$500 for each presenting hour plus the cost of travel expenses.