Dr. Drewes is a licensed psychologist, certified school psychologist, and Registered Play Therapist and Supervisor. She currently lives in Ocala, FL. She has over 45 years of clinical and supervision experience with complex trauma, sexual abuse, foster care children and adolescents, in school, outpatient, and inpatient settings. She is former Board of Director of the Association for Play Therapy and Founder and President Emeritus of the NY Association for Play Therapy. She has been awarded the NYAPT Lifetime Achievement Award and the Association for Play Therapy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Dr. Drewes is a frequently invited guest lecturer around the United States and internationally around the world, including Canada, England, Ireland, Italy, Argentina, Mexico, Australia, Taiwan, Denmark, and China. She supervises national and international play therapists. Dr. Drewes has published numerous book chapters journal articles and edited/co-edited fourteen play therapy books with the most recent being Supervision Can Be Playful, Second Edition, with Jodi Mullen; Play-based Interventions for childhood anxieties, Fears, and Phobias; Puppet Play Therapy; Play therapy in middle childhood with a companion DVD of Dr. Drewes demonstrating her work in Prescriptive Integrative Play Therapy with the American Psychological Association; and co-edited with Dr. Charles Schaefer The Therapeutic powers of play. 20 Core agents of change.