MNU faculty member elected to leadership post for Association of Play Therapy
Fresno, California
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
MidAmerica Nazarene University faculty member Mary Fry,  LCPC (Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor),  RPT-S (Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor), was elected by professional members of the Association for Play Therapy on June 30 to serve a three-year term on its board of directors.

Fry earned a master’s in counseling and guidance at Baylor University in 1975, has been a private practitioner and public school counselor, and is today the program coordinator at the MNU’s play therapy certification program. A resident of Olathe, Kansas, she is licensed by the State of Kansas as a LCPC, maintains a RPT-S credential conferred by the Association for Play Therapy, and is a former president of its Kansas branch.

The Association for Play Therapy was established in 1982 as a professional society that promotes play therapy and offers research, training, and credentialing programs to its member psychologists, counselors, marriage and family therapists, social workers, and other mental health professionals. Play therapy continues to gain popularity as it complements traditional adult-oriented therapy by enabling children whose language skills are not yet wholly developed to more easily and willingly communicate to resolve their problems.
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