Karla BurleyKarla Burley is a Certified Independent Therapeutic Life Story Work Practitioner, Certified Play Therapist, Clinical Supervisor, and a TLSWi Trainer, based in Kent, UK. She provides Therapeutic Life Story Work interventions, clinical supervision, andconsultation internationally and is a member of the TLSWi Board. Karla has developed and co-designed the Creating Therapeutic Stories Programme with Suzanne McGladdery, endorsed by Richard Rose. Karla is an Accredited Member of BACP, former Course Director for Postgraduate Certificate/Diploma in Play Therapy.Karla is the founder of The Open Toy Box (2002), offering Play Therapy and Psychotherapy to children/adolescents, from the ages of 18 months to 82. Karla has designed, developed, and delivered programmes of therapeutic play skills and techniques, child development, child protection, trauma and attachment training to support parents, foster carers, social workers, potential adoptive parents and pioneered play therapy for over 22 years with a team of over 75 qualified therapists and placement students to over 70 schools to enhance staff's confidence in supporting children with emotional/behavioural challenges.Karla is known to be perceptive, and this supports her straightforward natural reflective way of working that can stimulate deep thought and self-understanding. Karla's passion has always been to build a therapeutic relationship of safety creatively and collaboratively in a protected space for a child's emotional healing and development to take place. Karla's focus is on TLSW, training, developing TLSW tools, writing, and supporting TLSW students/professionals and assisting Professor Richard Rose with the future launch of Trauma, Health, Education International Academy (THEiA). Read More Read Less