Exploring Identity & Connection through Nimona & K-Pop with Play Therapy

Come celebrate International Play Therapy Week with KSAPT from February 1- 7, 2026!

Erika is presenting "Belonging and Bravery: Exploring Identity and Connection through Nimona and K-Pop: Demon Hunters in Play Therapy", this interactive workshop explores the use of Nimona and K-Pop: Demon Hunters through an Adlerian play therapy lens to help clients navigate belonging, courage, and self-acceptance. Through film clips, sand tray, and creative interventions, participants will learn how to use these pop culture narratives in assisting clients to foster social interest, reframe mistaken beliefs, and empower clients’ sense of community and purpose.

Objectives:

1. Apply Adlerian principles (social interest, lifestyle, belonging, and encouragement) to media-based play therapy interventions.
2. Demonstrate play-based activities using metaphor, sand tray, and expressive arts that promote belonging and resilience.
3. Integrate film and storytelling into Adlerian interventions that address feelings of inferiority, mistaken beliefs, and striving for significance in play therapy sessions.

8:45 am: Virtual Doors Open

9:00 am – 12:00 pm: Welcome, Conference Presentation, Post Test, and Evaluations

This workshop meets APT’s definition of Live Webinar. You will have to have your camera on and present to receive your certificate. An evaluation and quiz will be sent afterwards. There will be no recording available. You will receive a link to join the Zoom meeting after you register. APT Provider # 02-188

Presenter:
Erika Walker, LSCSW, LCSW, LICSW, RPT-S™, CAdPT-A, GTC (she/her)

Erika Walker is a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker (licensed in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Massachusetts), as well as a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor. She also has an advanced certificate in Adlerian Play therapy is and Geek Therapy Certified. Erika received her master’s degree in Social Work from Newman University in 2013 and her bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Religious Studies from The University of Kansas in 2006.

Erika strives to offer her clients the utmost quality of care. She aspires to be a resource for all communities and to serve in respect to all communities. Erika explicitly welcomes BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, neurodiverse, and all abilities into her office. She endeavors to help all of her clients form a cohesive sense of self, regardless of what their presenting struggles are. Erika’s practice embodies the principles of social justice, anti-racism, therapeutic humility, and cultural inclusion.

Within her work, Erika utilizes Brainspotting, EMDR®, Adlerian Play Therapy, and AutPlay Therapy®. She also utilizes Theraplay® techniques. Erika also utilizes Dungeons and Dragons as a way to explore treatment goals during individual therapy.