Terry Kottman, Ph.D., Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor, NCC, LMHC, founded The
Encouragement Zone, a center where she provides play therapy training, life coaching,
"playshops" for women, and play therapy supervision. She regularly presents entertaining
and engaging experiential workshops on play therapy; adventure therapy; activity-based
counseling; counseling for children, adolescents, and their parents; consultation
with teachers; and coaching adults. Prior to founding The Encouragement Zone, Terry
spent eight years as a professor of counselor education at the University of Northern
Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and five years as a professor of counselor education and
director of the Child and Family Resource Clinic at the University of North Texas
in Denton, Texas. She has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Northern
Iowa over the past several years.
Terry is Jacob's mother and Rick's wife — her most important and favorite “jobs.”
