About Us

Elizabeth Craft, LCSW, RPT-S, CST and EMDR certified, is the founder and clinical director of The Center for Creative Arts and Play therapy in York Pennsylvania, USA. Her counseling center of 12 therapists is focused on expressive modalities, and has offered, in its 14 years of service, play therapy, art therapy, sandplay therapy, music therapy, EMDR, and components of movement, writing and mindfulness.

Elizabeth has practiced psychotherapy with all ages for 35 years. She is a passionate trainer of interns, and supervisor of young therapists. She is also an enthusiastic teacher of play therapy, and is particularly interested in exploring the intersection between play therapy and sandplay.

Elizabeth has taught a play therapy class at her center, in local agencies, and at McDaniel College. She has presented on sandplay and play therapy at the National Sandplay Conference, and at the Canadian International Sandplay conference. She is also a certified yoga teacher.

In her free time she enjoys singing, cooking, yoga, reading, decorating, traveling with her husband, and spending time with her family and many friends.

Jacque began practicing Child Centered Play Therapy (CCPT), a foundation of Filial Therapy, in 1990. She worked with severely disturbed and traumatized children in Florida, where she first became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW).  Her passion for working with families of domestic violence began in 1998 while living in Utah.  She was part of a state funded research project that focused on therapeutic needs of children of domestic violence. This work was published in The Journal of Emotional Abuse in 2003.

In addition to being a forensic counselor in domestic violence, Jacque is a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor (RPT-S) who enjoys teaching the next generation of therapists, whether they are interns, graduates working toward their license, or participants at one of the many workshops Jacque leads.

Jacque’s interest in Animal Assisted Play Therapy(R)  (AAPT) began in 2012, with horses involved in her work.  However, when she began her private practice, cats became the focus of Jacque’s AAPT work.  This led to a time of intense study as Jacque earned her Diploma in Animal Behavior & Technology.  Combining felines with her CCPT work was a source of joy for Jacque as she pursued the field of AAPT. This led to the honor of being awarded the Kirrie Award for dedication to the development of the field of AAPT. Today Jacque is a Certified Animal Assisted Play Therapist Supervisor and Instructor (CAAPT-S-I). 

Through the years Jacque has worked in preschool settings, in the school setting with severely emotionally disturbed children, in outpatient settings and she has run a private practice in York, PA, since 2014.  Jacque served on the Utah APT Board of Directors and was involved with the PA APT Board of Directors from 2002 - 2019.  She was President of PA APT for four years and received the Guerney Award from PA APT for excellence in promoting the field of play therapy.

When Jacque discovered Filial Therapy she found the therapeutic piece that equips parents to be active agents for change in their children's lives.  This powerful modality has become a focus of Jacque’s private practice and parents repeatedly express their thankfulness for skills that so positively impact their interactions with their children and help resolve a myriad of difficult behaviors. Jacque has applied her love of CCPT work to Filial Therapy and today is a Filial Therapy Instructor and Supervisor.

Jacque and her husband have been married over 38 years. They raised five sons from three countries and greatly enjoy being grandparents! 

Debra Doubrava, PhD (she/her) is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor, and Level II EMDR & trauma trained therapist with over 30 years of experience providing mental health services to clients of all ages and stages of life and in a variety of settings. She completed her dissertation in 2005 on Child-Centered Group Play Therapy and Emotional Intelligence through Walden University. She is the proud author of the children’s books, Fertile Love: The Magical Story of How YOU Were Made (2022) and Fertile Heart: The Magical Story of How YOU Were Made (2023) which were inspired by her own struggles with fertility  (www.asifbooks.com or https://www.balboapress.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/835571-fertile-love-the-magical-story-of-how-you-were-made).  

Dr. Doubrava is a past adjunct professor in the Psychology Department at Harrisburg Area Community College and the Play Therapy Certification Program at Temple University in Harrisburg. Debbie is also a past President of the PA Association for Play Therapy (PA-APT), recipient of the PA-APT’s 2016 Guerney Award for Excellence in the Promotion of Play Therapy, and a 20+ year breast cancer survivor. Heart Work & Play, LLC, her private counseling practice in Central PA, is now exclusively virtual since the COVID-19 Pandemic. 

Debbie is passionate about inspiring authentic, creative, and inclusive ways of being in the world and enjoys presenting on topics such as mindfulness, self-care, and sex, gender, & sexuality. She resides in York County with her husband. Together they joyfully parent two daughters, a daughter-in-law, and several furbabies.