Tabletop Role-Playing Therapy: Exploring New Frontiers in Group Work
Explore Tabletop Role Play Therapy (TRPT) with Dr. Nathaniel Ivers. Learn its unique benefits and see how it can support diverse clients and enhance your students’ therapeutic toolkits.
Nathaniel Ivers, Professor in the Department of Counseling, Wake Forest University
Join Dr. Nathaniel Ivers in an exploration of Tabletop Role Play Therapy (TRPT). Learn what TRPT is, how it differs from nontherapeutic role-playing games, how it may be used to support individuals with diverse presenting concerns, and contraindications and limitations of it. This session will include considerations for forming and conducting a TRPT group. Resources for additional explorations of TRPT will be provided.
About the speaker
Nathaniel Ivers, Professor in the Department of Counseling, Wake Forest University
Nathaniel N. Ivers, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Counseling at Wake Forest University. He is also the Chair of the Department of Counseling, a position he has held for the past six years. He is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counseling (LCMHC) in North Carolina, a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas, a National Certified Counselor (NCC), and a Human Services – Board Certified Practitioner (HS-BCP).
He has worked as a bilingual counselor, bilingual alcohol counselor, private practitioner, and independent contractor, providing counseling services to individuals, groups, couples, and families. His research interests are related to mindfulness, existentialism, grief and loss, and bilingualism.
Dr. Ivers is the 2023 recipient of the Dr. Judy Lewis Counselors for Social Justice Award and the 2009 CSI Outstanding Doctoral Student Research Award.