Terry Kottman,
PhD, MCC, LMHC, RPT-S

 

Terry Kottman, PhD, NCC, RPT-S, LMHC, recently founded The Encouragement Zone, a center where she provides play therapy training, counseling, coaching, and “playshops” for adults. Dr. Kottman is a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor and maintains a small private practice, with an emphasis on co-active life coaching and play therapy supervisions. Dr. Kottman regularly presents workshops on play therapy, activity-based counseling, counseling children, and school counseling to innovative in-service training programs for teachers. Prior to founding The Encouragement Zone, Dr. Kottman spent 8 years as a professor of counselor education at the University of Northern Iowa and 5 years as a professor of counselor education and director of the Child and Family Resource Clinic at the University of North Texas.
     Dr. Kottman’s doctorate in Counselor Education is from the University of North Texas, where she specialized in working with children and families. During her internship there, Dr. Kottman developed Adlerian play therapy, an approach to counseling children that combines the ideas and techniques of Individual Psychology and play therapy. Before returning to graduate school to pursue her doctorate, Dr. Kottman worked as a special education teacher - teaching learning disabled children and children who had been diagnosed as emotionally disturbed/behavior disordered. She has 2 masters’ degrees - one from the University of Texas at Dallas in Special Education and one from Colorado College in Elementary Teaching.
     Dr. Kottman is the author of Partners in Play: An Adlerian Approach to Play Therapy and Play Therapy: Basics and Beyond; she is the co-author of Guidance and Counseling in the Elementary and Middle Schools with Dr. Jim Muro; co-author of Adventures in Guidance with Drs. Jeff Ashby and Don DeGraaf; and co-editor of Play Therapy in Action; A Casebook for Practitioners with Dr. Charles Schaefer. She recently finished writing the second edition of Partners in Play. Dr. Kottman has written many journal articles and book chapters on play therapy, school counseling, counseling with children and families, and perfectionism. She is a member of the Association for Play Therapy, the American Counseling Association, and the American School Counselor Association.
     Dr. Kottman is also Jacob’s mother and Rick’s wife - her most important and favorite roles.

Contact Dr Kottman at:
The Encouragement Zone, PO Box 1045
Cedar Falls, IA 50613-0048
http://www.encouragementzone.com
tkottman@cfu.net