RecPlay Opening Day: June 1, 2022

RecPlay Counseling Center moves toward continuing an evolved approach to today’s youth and families through more age-appropriate counseling techniques. Down the road, RecPlay hopes to also be a training site that will equip a new wave of counseling professionals to do the same, and even better.

Ever since 2010, I’ve been told that my style of counseling - recreational play therapy - works really well with today’s youth, young adults, and parents who want to connect better with their children. Because of that, over that same span, parents have shared their wishes to put me into a lab and make a clone of me. It’s been a humble reminder of the effectiveness of recreational play therapy.

Turning 40 years old in 2022 has also been a humble reminder for me both personally and professionally, mostly of ultimately slowing down in the next 10-20 years. And, while I still have an overflow of energy and passion toward counseling, I’ve decided that the coming years would be the best time to build on the growing recreational play therapy culture.

Going forward, I plan to help inspire other counseling professionals - both men and women - to create and install their own brand of recreational play therapy to reach an even wider younger clientele who remain disinterested in tapping into their own mental health. Hopefully, RecPlay Counseling Center will have a growing staff down the road to join me on that quest.

Praise for a Career’s Worth of Counseling Center Contributions

“Jordan has served the Summit and our community well over the past 7 years, and his reputation as an excellent counselor is well-known! We are so grateful to Jordan for all that he has done for the Summit and our clients. Jordan was the first therapist at the Summit to do establish on-site services in a school, pioneering group therapy for at-risk middle school kids at Haynes Bridge Middle School, which was certainly a passion project for him. Jordan was a major part of our DREAM program, which educated a number of community partners about diversity, inequities, and various ways to change these biased viewpoints and systems. Additionally, Jordan touched countless lives in therapy, incorporating his signature approach of “recreational play therapy” into his work. Jordan has also been an excellent contributor in our case consultation meetings when it comes to working with the family system in therapy.”

-Nathan Butzen, Summit Counseling Center Clinical Director

“Throughout your time at The Summit, you have played so many important roles….from kickstarting our presence in Fulton County Schools through your Haynes Bridge M.S. group, to introducing recreational therapy to our tweens, adolescents and young adults and leading the DREAM Team. I have enjoyed getting to know you, watching you grow as a therapist and seeing the impact that you are making on so many lives.”

-Cathy Murphy, Summit Counseling Center Director of Community Outreach

RecPlay Counseling Center Employment Opportunities

If you’re a fully licensed professional counselor, family therapist, or social worker in the state of Georgia, and you’re interested in using your unique set of passions, talents, and skills to serve the metro Atlanta community at RecPlay Counseling Center, please send your resume and cover letter to 5575 Peachtree Parkway, Peachtree Corners, GA 30092 (ATTN: Jordan Yates) or e-mail those same items to jordan@recplaycounseling.com