The 3rd Annual Innovative Child Therapy Symposium
JOIN US FOR THE 3RD ANNUAL INNOVATIVE CHILD THERAPY SYMPOSIUM!
Join thousands of child therapists, play therapists, school counselors, social workers, psychologists, and mental health professionals for a week of learning, connection, and inspiration.
Over five days, you'll learn practical strategies, creative interventions, and innovative approaches from leading experts in play therapy, EMDR, sandtray therapy, attachment, grief, nervous system regulation, and child mental health.
Whether you're looking for fresh ideas, deeper understanding, or renewed inspiration, you'll find sessions designed to support your work with children, adolescents, and families.
Samantha Willis is a board certified licensed professional counselor in Alabama, licensed clinical mental health counselor in North Carolina, and a registered play therapist. She primarily works with the LGBTQ+ communities, specifically the transgender/non-binary/gender expressive communities in the southeastern United States. Samantha has presented at many conferences and workshops about providing affirming care with the LGBTQ+ communities.
💙Happy National Play Therapy week! Check out the Association for Play Therapy for some wonderful resources, information and more.
💚Would you like to learn more from Jackie? HERE is a scheduling link.
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Marnie Davis is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and Supervisor, Certified EMDR Therapist and EMDRIA Approved Consultant. Marnie also has specialized training in Brainspotting and Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program. She is the current Continuing Education co-chair for the Central Florida iaedp Chapter and has previously served as president and other various board positions.
Marnie is owner of a private practice in Maitland, Florida, where she specializes in the treatment of eating disorders, disordered eating, body image distress and body dysmorphia, trauma and PTSD, anxiety, depression and other co-occurring issues. Marnie has experience working in higher level of care settings and is a Health at Every Size informed clinician, respecting body diversity and creating a body affirming therapeutic environment. Marnie assisted in the development of a comprehensive eating disorder treatment model at Rollins College Wellness Center and more recently contributed as a chapter author in a newly released book, Trauma-informed Approaches to Eating Disorders. Marnie is a seasoned presenter and enjoys speaking to various audiences. She served as board member for the Eating Disorders Network of Central Florida for over 10 years and recently joined the Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness, as an Orlando Affiliate to continue to fundraise, advocate, and promote help, support and recovery for all. Marnie is a volunteer for the Greater Orlando Trauma Recovery Network (TRN) and holds community service, social justice and continued hope for healing in high regard.
Davis Counseling and Consulting, Inc - www.Marniedavislmhc.com - Private practice, consultation services, and speaking/training opportunities.
Elevate EMDR - www.elevateemdr.com. - An EMDR training platform providing EMDR basic training, EMDR advanced trainings and EMDR consultation services.
💙Happy National Play Therapy week! Check out the Association for Play Therapy for some wonderful resources, information and more.
💚Would you like to learn more from Jackie? HERE is a scheduling link.
❤️Want to join our Play Members Therapy Community membership site?
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Dr. Montse Casado has been a professor of counseling for 17 years training school counselors, mental health counselors, play therapists and marriage and family therapists. Over her academic career she has developed 2 Play Therapy certificates at university settings and has a passion for training clinicians as to how to implement Play Therapy and work with children. Dr. Montse loves working with children and families whether in therapy, schools or empowerment parenting workshops. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) and registered play therapist (RPT) in the state of North Carolina with a specialized focused on Holistic Counseling, Resiliency, and Attachment and Trauma. Recently she has been featured in various Podcasts discussing the role of diet as it relates to mental health issues in children and adolescents and working with children and understanding the root causes of PANS/PANDAS. She is trained in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) and Adoption Competency. Dr. Montse has written many publications over the years (articles, book chapters and books) in the areas of expressive arts, supervision, adoption, child-family therapy and couples therapy. As an educator, researcher, trainer and international speaker, she has presented many workshops over the years helping families and clinicians understand children through a holistic, trauma-focused and strength base approach. Her work integrates Play Therapy, Expressive Arts, Trauma, Attachment, Resiliency, Strength-Based Parenting and Nature based activities. Dr. Montse is currently working as Child/Family Therapist, Parent Educator, Consultant and Expressive Arts Coach/Educator in North Carolina.
💙Happy National Play Therapy week! Check out the Association for Play Therapy for some wonderful resources, information and more.
💚Would you like to learn more from Jackie? HERE is a scheduling link.
❤️Want to join our Play Members Therapy Community membership site?
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Dr. Taylor is an Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida. She earned her doctoral degree in Counseling and completed her masters degree in Counseling from the University of North Texas. She founded and directs the Center for Play Therapy for Training and Research where she leads a team of Masters and Doctoral Students - Play Leaders Advocating for Youth (P.L.A.Y.). She has published over 30 articles, majority focusing on Adlerian play therapy with children. She is a certified child-centered play therapist supervisor, a certified child parent relationship therapist supervisor, and a trained Adlerian play therapist, supervisor, and trainer. Dalena is a wife and mother to three precious daughters who put her skills as a play therapist to work daily.
https://leapt.arlo.co/w/presenters/2243-dalena-dillman-taylor
https://ccie.ucf.edu/play-therapy/
💙Happy National Play Therapy week! Check out the Association for Play Therapy for some wonderful resources, information and more.
💚Would you like to learn more from Jackie? HERE is a scheduling link.
❤️Want to join our Play Members Therapy Community membership site?
💛Join us on Facebook
What We Say & How We Say It
💚 MONDAY
On Monday, we’ll explore how language, communication, and clinical understanding shape our work with children and families, including gender identity and sexuality, suicidal ideation, adoption and foster care, eating disorders, autism, grief, PANS, and the difference between punishment and discipline.
Samantha Willis
Understanding Common Terms Relating to Gender Identity and SexualityHeather Fairlee Denbrough
Working with Young Clients with Suicidal IdeationJeanette Yoffe
When Working with Children & Families of Adoption & Foster CareMarnie Davis
A Team Treatment Approach for Working with Eating DisordersDr. Robert Jason Grant
Key Terms and Phrases to Know When Working with Autistic Children & TeensDiane (Dee Dee) Diaz Rodriguez
The Language of Grief for KidsDr. Montserrat Casado
Raising Awareness of PANS: Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric SyndromeDr. Dalena Dillman Taylor
Punishment ≠ Discipline
For Therapist Extraordinaire Pass holders, today’s bonus materials are also available:
💚 AutPlay® Assessment
💚 LGBTQ+ Terminology
💚 Warning Signs of Suicidal Ideation in the Playroom
💚 Bereaved Children Intake
💚 Language of Grief Workshop with a Child Demonstration
💚 AutPlay® Therapy Groups Neurodiversity Affirming Guide
💚 Daisy Flower Resource: A Resource for Support, Safety and Protection
💚 Shamewich Activity
Upgrade to the Therapist Extraordinaire Pass for lifetime access to every Monday presentation, the Grief and Loss Companion Notebook, bonus integration resources, and the ability to revisit the material whenever you need it.
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Heather Fairlee Denbrough (she/her/hers) is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, Registered Play Therapist Supervisor, and Certified Synergetic Play Therapy Supervisor with more than a decade of play experience. Her specialty areas are: young children and early childhood, developmental trauma, attachment issues, parent-child relational problems, suicidal ideation in young children, Synergetic Play Therapy, the nervous system and its role in therapy, parent reflective work/inner work, and reflective supervision.
Playful Integration exists to provide resources and more to play therapists and other folks who benefit from looking at the world from the lens of play therapy, with a special emphasis on building confidence in folks working with children. Through Playful Integration, Heather offers play therapy consultation, workshops, and practical, supportive products.
Links:
Playful Integration Newsletter:
https://tinyletter.com/PlayfulIntegration
Playful Integration Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/playfulintegration/
Website:
Young Children & Suicidal Ideation in the Playroom On Demand Workshop:
https://courses.wonderscounseling.com/p/young-children-suicidal-ideation-in-playroom
Playful Integration's Play Therapy Documentation Support Packet:
💙Happy National Play Therapy week! Check out the Association for Play Therapy for some wonderful resources, information and more.
💚Would you like to learn more from Jackie? HERE is a scheduling link.
❤️Want to join our Play Members Therapy Community membership site?
💛Join us on Facebook
Dr. Grant specializes in working with children, adolescents, and families, including working with neurodivergent children (autism, ADHD, sensory differences, learning disorders, and developmental disabilities). He is the creator of AutPlay® Therapy, an integrative family play therapy approach.
Dr. Grant is an international speaker and keynote presenter having presented for the American Counseling Association, Association for Play Therapy, American Mental Health Counselors Association, and The World Autism Congress. He is a multi-published author of several articles, book chapters, and books. He is currently serving as the chair for the board of directors for the Association for Play Therapy.
https://www.facebook.com/autplaytherapy
https://www.facebook.com/robertjasongrant
💙Happy National Play Therapy week! Check out the Association for Play Therapy for some wonderful resources, information and more.
💚Would you like to learn more from Jackie? HERE is a scheduling link.
❤️Want to join our Play Members Therapy Community membership site?
💛Join us on Facebook
Jeanette Yoffe is the Executive Director and Founder of Celia Center, a non-profit support center which meets the critical needs of all those connected by Foster Care and Adoption and all those who serve the community of Foster Care and Adoption in Los Angeles and beyond. She is also an adoptions and foster care psychotherapist and director of Yoffe Therapy. Yoffe’s desire to become a therapist with a special focus on adopted and foster care issues derived from her own experience of being adopted and moving through the foster care system.
She has been in the field for over 20 years, providing mental health education and support, as a psychotherapist, foster care social worker, clinical director, trainer for Los Angeles County Child & Family Services and the Department of Mental Health teaching parents, social workers and therapists on adoption and foster care challenges, trauma-informed parenting, impact of pre-adoption trauma, grief/loss, open adoption, and provides support to adult adoptees searching for long lost family members, as well as assists in reunion and family reunification. She is a Court Appointed Reunification Expert for Los Angeles Superior Court in cases involving children at risk for separation. She has appeared on the OWN and TLC Network, as a Psychotherapist teaching about Adoption in the shows Raising Whitley and Long Lost Family.
For more info visit JeanetteYoffe.com
Adoption Competency Trainings: https://celiacenter.org/product-category/store/continuing-education-ceu/
NEW CHILDREN’S BOOK: What is Adoption? for Kids
My Author Page with ALL Books: https://amzn.to/3sVplQT
My Websites: www.JeanetteYoffe.com (links to all 3 websites)
Animations for Kids:
What is Adoption? https://bit.ly/3eNPtos
What is Foster Care? https://bit.ly/3sYcRrF
Childen’s Mental Health Videos Playlist: https://bit.ly/3JGY36J
Hand Model of the Brain Video now in 5 Languages in captions: English, French, Italian, Spanish & Portuguese: https://bit.ly/3mZ4xnP
Amazon Booklists for Children & Families- topics: adoption, foster care, trauma, grief and loss, addiction, feelings, parenting, COVID:
💙Happy National Play Therapy week! Check out the Association for Play Therapy for some wonderful resources, information and more.
💚Would you like to learn more from Jackie? HERE is a scheduling link.
❤️Want to join our Play Members Therapy Community membership site?
💛Join us on Facebook
Diane “Dee Dee” Rodriguez is a grief agent, providing a bridge for pain and sorrow. She helps the grieving reconnect with life. A gatekeeper to intimate and sacred conversations. A witness to what was, what is and what is to come. Dee Dee helps mental health professionals get out of their own way with grief to support the grieving who need them, stop referring them out, and avoid conversations on loss, grief, death, dying, and bereavement.
Having helped thousands find joy again, Dee Dee is passionate about grief literacy with grief education, advocacy, and compassion building. However, as a grief wellness proponent, the forefront of all that she does has a holistic focus on the heart, mind, body, soul, and spirit connection.
Dee Dee’s keynote speaking engagements, workshops and consulting, help those grieving and those supporting them to create healthy boundaries. So that they don’t need to choose to abandon their grief, believe they are betraying their loss, or have to stay stuck in a life of sorrow.
She is also the founder and owner of Live Life Changed ©, Compassionate Connectors ©, Dying for Meaning© and The Grief Wellness Institute© of livelifechanged.com, where mindful grieving meets meaningful living. Compassionate connectors take an active role in companioning, grieving, and healing one another.
Dee Dee is currently a Registered Mental Health Counselor Intern awaiting her Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor status in Florida and splits her home time between Florida and Virginia.
💙Happy National Play Therapy week! Check out the Association for Play Therapy for some wonderful resources, information and more.
💚Would you like to learn more from Jackie? HERE is a scheduling link.
❤️Want to join our Play Members Therapy Community membership site?
💛Join us on Facebook
Exploration of Some Play & Expressive Therapies
💜 TUESDAY
On Tuesday, we’ll explore a wide range of play and expressive therapy approaches, including sandtray, Internal Family Systems, attachment work, nature-based play, bibliotherapy, digital play therapy, animal-assisted play therapy, EMDR, art, puppetry, music, and creative approaches for working with trauma and dissociation.
Marshall Lyles and Linda Homeyer
What Is Sandtray Therapy?Annie Monaco and Ann Beckley Forest
Dissociation in Children: Meet ALLMEE©: A Therapeutic DollCarmen Jimenez Pride
Glimpse of Internal Family Systems and Play Therapy IntegratedClair Mellenthin
Strengthening Attachment in Play TherapyJamie Lynn Langley
Integrating Nature in Play TherapyTheresa Fraser
Working with Traumatized ChildrenDr. Jenn Lefebre
A Glimpse of What Quality Play Therapy Supervision Can EntailDr. Karen Fried
Oaklander Model Demonstrated: Puppet Play & Music in TherapyLynn Louise Wonders
Ways to Incorporate Bibliotherapy into Your Practice with Children and FamiliesDr. Jessica Stone
3 Ways to Incorporate Digital Play Therapy into Your Child Therapy PracticeDr. Risë VanFleet
Animal Assisted Play Therapy® DescribedSophia Ansari
Superheroes and Villains in Play TherapyJackie Flynn
EMDR with KidsKaren Wallace
Play and Art Narrative in Trauma Treatment
For Therapist Extraordinaire Pass holders, today’s bonus materials are also available:
🤎 Polyvagal Inspired Kid-Friendly 3 States Body Scans
🤎 Sophia Ansari
Using a Virtual Background in Session (Sophia Demonstrates)
🤎 Sophia Ansari
Superheroes and Villains Handout
🤎 Coupon Code for the ALLMEE Therapeutic Doll
🤎 Marshall Lyles
Beautiful Poetry
🤎 Oaklander Model Music in Therapy
🤎 Carmen Jimenez Pride
Discount Code for 10% Off
🤎 Dr. Jenn Lefebre
Professional Development Tree for Play Therapy Supervision
Upgrade to the Therapist Extraordinaire Pass for lifetime access to every Tuesday presentation, the Play Heals Attachment Companion Notebook, bonus integration resources, and the ability to revisit the material whenever you need it.
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Marshall Lyles, LPC-S, LMFT-S, RPT-S, has 20 years of practice in family and play therapy. Drawing on lessons learned from working with attachment trauma in a variety of mental health settings, Marshall regularly teaches on trauma, expressive therapies, and attachment-informed family work around the globe. In addition to maintaining a small clinical practice, Marshall also conducts supervision and consultation sessions with counseling professionals who are pursuing EMDR certification and RPT status, often with a particular focus on the use of sandtray therapy. Marshall has published in professional journals and magazines in addition to contributing to the books Counseling Families: Play-Based Treatment and EMDR with Children in the Play Therapy Room: An Integrated Approach.
Dr. Homeyer is a Professor in the Professional Counseling Program and chair of the Department of Counseling, Leadership, Adult Education and School Psychology at Texas State University. Dr. Homeyer is proud to be involved with the growing, vital, and prominent program that trains mental health professionals, working with a dedicated set of colleagues, and mentoring students on their professional journey. She has worked as a professional actress, but it was her work as an investigator of child abuse that led her to her interest in counseling children. An advocate for children and play therapy, she participates extensively in service, teaching, and writing. Dr. Homeyer served several years on the Texas Association for Play Therapy Board of Directors and served two terms as President of the Association for Play Therapy Board of Directors.
Annie Monaco is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a faculty member of the Child Trauma Institute and travels extensively throughout the US and Asia teaching EMDR and specialty areas including children, teens and dissociation. She has been an EMDR consultant and was the co-regional coordinator of the Western NY Region for over 10 years. She has extensive training in complex trauma, family therapy, and play therapy. Her private practice includes foster care, out of country adoptions, juvenile justice and dissociation, and she co-edited the recently published EMDR with Children in the Play Therapy Room (2020).
Ann Beckley-Forest is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice in Buffalo, New York. Her specialties include attachment and child and adolescent trauma, and she also works with adult survivors. She is certified in EMDR and is an EMDR Approved Consultant and a faculty member of the Child Trauma Institute, as well as a Registered Play Therapist and Supervisor and Approved Provider of play therapy continuing edΩucation through the Association for Play Therapy. She provides consultation in person and remotely, and gives trainings locally and internationally. Her primary interest is in the intersection of play therapy and EMDR and has published on this topic including as co-editor of EMDR with Children in the Play Therapy Room: An Integrated Approach (2020).
Links
EMDR Basic trainings , especially geared toward child/adolescent clinicians
Playful EMDR webinar series ann.beckleyforest.com
Advanced EMDR with children intensive trainings
Our new book:
EMDR with Children in the Play Therapy Room: An Integrated Approach (Springer, 2020).
Carmen Jimenez-Pride is the founder and Executive Director of Outspoken Counseling and Consulting. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Registered Play Therapist Supervisor, Certified EMDR Therapist, Internal Family Systems Therapist, Registered Yoga Teacher, Registered Children Yoga Teacher, and a Certified Daring Way™ Facilitator. Carmen is also a LEGO® Serious Play® . Carmen is experienced in the clinical treatment of children, adolescents, and adults with culturally diverse backgrounds addressing a wide range of concerns. Carmen’s career in the mental health field spans more than 15 years.
Carmen has extensive training in sandtray, play therapy, EMDR, Internal Family Systems, and Adlerian Play Therapy.
Carmen is the developer of Diversity in Play Therapy Inc.; and creator/organizer of the 2020 Diversity in Play Therapy Summit. Her experience as a therapist, consultant, trainer, educator, coach, and author encompasses Carmen’s approach to practice, which is “Together We Will Grow”
Clair Mellenthin is a sought after supervisor, international speaker, and renowned play therapist. Clair is the author of the best selling books Attachment Centered Play Therapy; Play Therapy : Proven Strategies for Childhood Disorders, and My Many Colors of Me Workbook. In addition to being an experienced play therapist and professor, she frequently appears on local and national media as an expert on children and family issues.
Links
Webinars available on www.clairmellenthin.com
facebook- Clair Mellenthin LCSW
Twitter @Clairmellenthin
Instagram Clair Mellethin Play Therapy
Jamie Lynn Langley has been a therapist for over 30 years specializing with children, teens and families. With a background in community mental health, Jamie has a private practice in Smyrna, TN just outside of Nashville. She is also full-time faculty with Middle TN State University. Jamie co-founded the TN Assoc for Play Therapy and serves as it’s president.
Jamie is passionate about creativity and nature, and integrates these in her clinical practice as well as supervision, teaching, writing and training. She has written several articles and chapters about play therapy, more recently concentrating on Nature Play Therapy. She has a book coming out in March that she co-edited with four other play therapists called: “Nature-Based Play and Expressive Therapies: Interventions for Working with Children, Teens and Families.”
Website: www.jamielynnlangley.com
Theresa Fraser is a Child and youth Practitioner, Canadian Play Therapy Supervisor, Masters degree, Registered Psychotherapist, and a Registered Counselling Therapist. She is an integrative and prescriptive Play Therapist who is well known for her Sandtray expertise. She has presented at APT state conferences on topics related to both Sandtray and Supervision. Theresa is Executive Director of the Maritime Play Therapy Training Centre located in Canada. She has recently released the edited book, Using Teleplay in Virtual Care and Co-edited (with Rita Grayson) the recently released book: The Embodied Brain and Sandtray Therapy. She integrates neurofeedback, SSP, EMDR and Brain Spotting in her clinical work. She is a life long learner.
Links
Books:
The Embodied Brain and Sandtray therapy
https://www.amazon.ca/Embodied-Brain-Sandtray-Therapy-Transformation-ebook/dp/B09M1C77M9/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3SLYGSS32OOK6&keywords=the+embodied+brain+and+sandtray+therapy&qid=1642363753&sprefix=The+embodied+%2Caps%2C97&sr=8-1
Using Telehealth in Virtual Care
https://www.amazon.ca/Using-Teleplay-Virtual-Theresa-Fraser-ebook/dp/B09GMW2K9K/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1ENMM7NRB9S9E&keywords=using+teleplay+in+virtual+care&qid=1642363827&sprefix=Using+virtual+%2Caps%2C121&sr=8-
Dr. Jenn is a yoga teacher, personal trainer, Reiki Master of Masters, & holistic wellness coach. Dr. Jenn is the founder & director of Moon Phoenix Rising~Sustenance for the mind, body, heart, & soul & the innovative wellness program SoulCare by JennAnn.
Dr. Jenn integrates her substantial knowledge & background in clinical psychology, play therapy, neuroscience, & traumawith her deep personal work & professional immersion in Ayurveda, Little Flower Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga, Reiki, Tarot, nature, art, music, & photography in her innovative approach to holistic integrative wellness.
Dr. Jenn is a sought-after expert for speaking engagements, podcasts, and webinars on a variety topics...including vicarious trauma, healing the healer, complex trauma, embodiment, & trauma-informed yoga, movement, & exercise. She is also an advisor for the International Association of Trauma Professionals & a faculty member of the Complex Trauma Training & Treatment Network.
Karen Fried is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and an Educational Therapist in Santa Monica, California. She has a private practice in Psychotherapy and is Co-Director of the K&M Center. Inc., a learning center providing educational and remedial services to students ranging from 4 years old to college age. Karen uses the Oaklander Model of Child Therapy in her practice and is the President of the Violet Solomon Oaklander Foundation. She trains child and adolescent therapists in this model in the US and internationally. Trainings, online tools, and many resources can be found at oaklandertraining.org. Karen can be reached at info@oaklandertraining.org.
Covid-19 International Zoom Call, Trainings and Presentations:
In response to COVID-19, Karen presented an article series to an international audience of child and adolescent therapists: “Just for Now, Using the Oaklander Model in a Time of Crisis” on a zoom call. Therapists and counselors from over 30 countries participate on this monthly call. Since March of 2020, Karen has presented to global audiences, trainings, presentations, and consultation on the use of Gestalt Therapy with children. Her in-person 3-part training program for therapists and counselors is now virtual and has expanded to participants worldwide.
Links
https://www.oaklandertraining.org/
https://www.oaklandertraining.org/continuing-education
https://www.facebook.com/21stcenturyperspectives
https://www.instagram.com/oaklandertraining/
https://onlinepuppets.org/
Lynn Louise Wonders of Wonders Counseling & Consultation has been providing services for children and families since 2001 and has been providing training, supervision in Consultation for Therapists since 2010. She is the author of When Parents Are at War: A Child Therapist’s Guide to Navigating High Conflict Divorce & Custody Cases, the Miss Piper’s Playroom therapeutics children’s book series, and BREATHE: a mindfulness coloring and activity book for children and their caring adults. Lynn provides self care support through retreats and consultation as well as midlife redesign coaching for women.
Links
Books and Courses
My Miss Piper’s Playroom series:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093ZV4XVR?binding=paperback&qid=1638972167&sr=8-3&ref=dbs_dp_awt_sb_pc_tpbk
Jessica Stone is an international speaker, sought after clinical supervisor, and renowned play therapist. She is the co-creator of The Virtual Sandtray®©, a best-selling author, and developer of Digital Play Therapy. Dr. Stone has been featured for her work throughout the virtual world as an innovator, ambassador of play, and stalwart advocate for the use of digital technology in the field of psychology.
Virtual Sandtray. https://www.virtualsandtray.org/
My website is here: https://jessicastonephd.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-stone-ph-d-rpt-s-68963928/
https://www.facebook.com/digitalplaytherapy
Websites and Social Media:
www.risevanfleet.com (gateway to my various sites)
www.play-therapy.com (mostly on play therapy and Filial Therapy, soon to be totally revamped. It has some short articles and will soon have a listing of all my chapters and articles and books)
www.iiaapt.org (on Animal Assisted Play Therapy® and related topics)
Blog (right now for both AAPT and FT/play therapy): http://risevanfleet.com/international/resources/blog/
Facebook group (Filial Therapy Forum): https://www.facebook.com/groups/FilialTherapyForum
Facebook group (AAPT): https://www.facebook.com/groups/AnimalAssistedPlayTherapy
I have several other facebook pages and groups, but this is enough for now!
Some key books on Filial Therapy (most available at http://risevanfleet.com/shop/)
Check with Risë to see which of these are in other languages!
VanFleet, Sywulak, & Sniscak (2010, Guilford): Child-Centered Play Therapy
VanFleet (2014, 3rd ed., Professional Resource Press): Filial Therapy: Strengthening Parent-Child Relationships Through Play
VanFleet (2012, 2nd ed., Professional Resource Press). A Parent's Handbook of Filial Therapy
VanFleet & Guerney (2003, Play Therapy Press, e-book). Casebook of Filial Therapy
Guerney & Ryan (2013, Elsevier): Group Filial Therapy
...and a key one on Animal Assisted Play Therapy®:
VanFleet & Faa-Thompson (2017; Professional Resource Press). Animal Assisted Play Therapy (Maxwell Award for best book on the human-animal bond) - also on same website
VanFleet's Online CE Courses:
http://risevanfleet.com/shop/product-category/onlinecourses/
Sophia Ansari, is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, and Registered Play Therapist. She is an author, educator, and co-founder of the Let’s Play Therapy Institute. Sophia co-hosts Hero Nation, a podcast on the Geek Therapy Network, which celebrates diversity in the media and explores how to use geek culture in therapy. For more information on Let’s Play Therapy Institute visit, https://letsplaytherapy.org/
My organization:
Let's Play Therapy Institute
I mentioned Amy is who I learned about green screen from, here is her info:
Amy Nelson, LCSW-RPT-S
Emotional Milestones
https://www.emotionalmilestones.com/
Youtube tutorials on how to use green screen from Play Spark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0w-2Vp8edU
Play Spark website (to purchase green screen kit and more):
Jackie Flynn is an experienced Certified EMDR therapist and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, Approved Provider for the Association for Play Therapy, as well as an advanced trainer, author and internationally known speaker.
She earned a certification from ILS, Integrated Listening Systems, to provide the Safe and Sound Protocol, or SSP, a non-invasive application of Polyvagal Theory to individuals of all ages.
While she is known best for her work with children, teens and families, she also works with individuals of all ages. Driven by her desire to greatly reduce the amount of human suffering in the world, she takes pride in her top-notch experiential trainings, consultations, and development of clinical resources. Her expertise in telehealth has allowed her to help clinicians from all over the world deliver the healing power of Play and EMDR therapies to people of all ages online.
In addition to her Play Therapy trainings, EMDR advanced training and consultation work, Jackie is the host of Play Therapy Community podcast and the annual Innovative Child Therapy Symposium, as well as a private practitioner working with children and families in the state of Florida.
Jackie Flynn declares that she has no conflict of interest, competing interest or commercial support for this Play Therapy program.This statement is not intended to apply to gifts and/or similar entertainment of nominal value that clearly are in keeping with good business ethics and do not obligate the trainee/recipient. Any matter of question or interpretation that arises relating to this policy should be brought to the attention of Jackie Flynn for investigation. Competing interests are avoided, defined as potential influences that may undermine the objectivity, integrity or perceived conflict of delivery of this program.
Karen Wallace is an Art Therapist and Trauma Counsellor in private practice for over 20 years. She also teaches part-time in Educational Counselling Psychology and Early Childhood Education at the University of Regina and other schools. In addition, She does supervision with therapists and organizations across Canada. She works with schools and individual teachers to achieve trauma-informed classrooms through using play, art, and narrative instructional techniques. She has authored articles, conference presentations, in-service workshops, and two books; 'There Is No Need to Talk About This: Poetic Inquiry from the Art Therapy Studio' and 'Trauma-informed teaching through play art narrative'. (PAN)
Trauma-informed teaching through Play Art Narrative (PAN) by Karen O Wallace and Patrick J Lewis
Available at: https://brill.com/view/title/57643
https://www.amazon.ca/Trauma-Informed-Teaching-Through-Narrative/dp/9004432728
Daily Doodles for Wellbeing Workbook Series: Available at: https://www.karen-wallace-therapy.com/shop
Growth and Change
Anxiety and Self Care
Trauma Responses and Regulation
Working with Relationships
Loss and Grief
Communication and Conflict
Supporting the Child Therapy Practitioner
🤎 WEDNESDAY
On Wednesday, we’ll focus on supporting the therapist behind the work, including practice spaces, professional confidence, documentation, online play therapy, creativity, self-care, therapeutic presence, and inspiration from child therapy practices around the world.
Kim Martinez
Let’s Tour Kim Martinez’s Group Play Therapy Practice OfficeTiffanie Trudeau
“I Don’t Want My Name on the Cover. 😔”Dr. David Crenshaw and Tammi VanHollander
How to Create a Safe Therapeutic Space in Play TherapyLisa Dion
When Imposter Syndrome Sets InDr. Rachel Altvater
When Therapists Go to TherapyAnn Meehan
The Child Centered Play Therapy Progress NoteDr. KatySue Tillman
Maintaining the Integrity of Play Therapy OnlineMerab Chunge
Meet Merab: Play Therapy in AfricaDora Henderson
Let’s Tour Dora’s Play Therapy Private PracticeMaria Arias
Virtual Play and Art Interventions with Young ChildrenRotem Brayer
Re-Igniting CreativityJen Taylor
Permission
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🧡 Lisa Dion
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome Webinar
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Kim is the owner and lead counselor at True North Counseling. At True North Counseling, she helps families work together to assist children in gaining life-long skills in order to become emotionally healthy adults. Kim supports children with self-esteem concerns, anxiety, gifted children, ADHD, LGBTQIA+, school / family behavior issues, and High Sensitivity. She works with parents to create healthy and effective parenting techniques. Her specialties include using art therapy, play therapy and sand tray techniques. Kim is a infant toddler developmental specialist , a Family Centered Parenting Coach and a specialist in High Sensitivity She is a ADHD-Certified Clinical Services Provider.
https://yourtruenorthcounseling.com/kim-martinez-lmhc-adhd-ccsp/
Tiffanie Trudeau is a Licensed Mental Health and Professional Counselor (LMHC, LPC) who is passionate about working with individuals and couples that feel stuck, lost and alone. Using an eclectic approach rooted in attachment theory, Tiffanie specializes in the treatment of depression, anxiety, relationship distress, trauma and addiction. Tiffanie holds a Dual Bachelor's of Art degree in Psychology and Criminology and a Master's of Art degree in Mental Health Counseling. In addition to her graduate coursework, Tiffanie has advanced training in:
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy,
• Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy,
• Cognitive Processing Therapy,
• Sexual Assault Response,
• Gottman Method
• Compulsive Sexual Behavior Therapy
Being a therapist is more than just Tiffanie’s chosen profession, but a part of who she is. Tiffanie truly believes in the healing power of having a witness to your life experiences, and having a trusted companion to provide feedback and support. In working with individuals within the military community, child advocacy community and in behavioral health settings, Tiffanie’s has learned that people do not care about what you know, until they know that you care. So in partnering with clients, Tiffanie strives to listen first, then ask how she can help.
Tiffanie's Book!
Dr. Crenshaw is Clinical Director of the Children's Home of Poughkeepsie, New York. He previously was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University in the graduate program of Clinical Psychology where he taught play therapy. He also taught play therapy at Johns Hopkins University from 2007 to 2012 as a Faculty Associate. Dr. Crenshaw is a Board Certified Clinical Psychologist by the American Board of Professional Psychology; a Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Psychology, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), and a Fellow of APA's Division of Child and Adolescent Psychology. He is also a Registered-Play Therapist-Supervisor (RPT-S) by the Association for Play Therapy. He has been awarded three lifetime achievement awards most recently by the Association for Play Therapy (2021); New York Association for Play Therapy (2018); and the Hudson Valley Psychological Association (2012). He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of 17 books in the field and he also has written three books of poetry.
https://www.facebook.com/david.a.crenshaw
A Community of Play and Family Therapists Preserving a Rich Oral Tradition: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2430770777169615
Tammi is a licensed clinical social worker and Registered Play Therapist Supervisor, and has spent over 20 years working with children, families and individuals. Her work and creative interventions in the field of play therapy have been published and internationally recognized. Tammi is the author of a multi-sensory, attachment-based children’s book titled, Casey’s Greatness Wings: Teaching Mindfulness, Connection, and Courage to Children. The success of the book inspired her to create Casey’s Greatness Sticks & Greatness Cards to be used in schools, counseling and in the home. She specializes in attachment, sand tray play therapy & sensory integration working with infants, children, families, and adults of all ages.
She holds a Master of Social Work from The University of Pennsylvania and has had extensive training and supervision from The Family and Play Therapy Center in Philadelphia.
She is a certified Trainer for the Nurtured Heart Approach®, a certified FirstPlay® practitioner and a founding board member of The World Association for Sand Therapy Professionals.
https://www.facebook.com/mainlineplaytherapy
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCStWuSv69lHzXDF-xUJoVPw
Lisa Dion is an international teacher, creator of Synergetic Play Therapy, founder and President of the Synergetic Play Therapy Institute, co-founder of the Synergetic Education Institute and host of the Lessons from the Playroom podcast. She is the author of Aggression in Play Therapy: A Neurobiological Approach for Integrating Intensity and is the 2015 recipient of the Association for Play Therapy’s Professional Education and Training Award of Excellence.
Dr. Rachel Altvater is a Licensed Psychologist in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, Registered Play Therapist–Supervisor, and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. She is the owner of Creative Psychological Health Services, an affiliate faculty member at Loyola University Maryland, and the president of the Maryland/DC Association for Play Therapy. Dr. Altvater published two articles in the International Journal of Play Therapy on her research of technology use in play therapy and is a contributing author in Integrating Technology in Modern Therapies: A Clinician’s Guide to Developments and Interventions, Digital Play Therapy: A Clinician’s Guide to Comfort and Competence, and Cultural Issues in Play Therapy (2nd ed.; in press). She is the recipient of the 2019 Emerging Leader Service Award from the Association for Play Therapy, the 2018 Outstanding Play Therapy Research Award from the Maryland/DC Association for Play Therapy, and the 2018 Distinguished Alumna of the Year from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Washington, D.C. Campus.
Consultation & supervision - https://creativepsychological.com/services/supervision-consultation-and-training
YouTube channel with virtual play therapy content - www.YouTube.com/c/RachelAltvater
Facebook pages - Professional: https://www.facebook.com/dr.rachelaltvater/ & Business: https://www.facebook.com/creativepsychological/
Website - www.creativepsychological.com
Ann Meehan is a mental health therapist who empowers children and families with big emotions, trauma, and challenging behaviors to get their joy back, increase connection and confidence, and thrive. Through Play Therapy, EMDR, and Cognitive Behavioral therapy Ann helps children and families heal, grow, and move forward from life’s biggest difficulties and challenges. Ann is a Registered Play Therapist and Supervisor, EMDR Consultant, and Treasurer of the Minnesota Association for Play Therapy.
When Ann is not seeing clients she helps other therapists who work with children to become the best versions of themselves by providing easy and understandable resources and tools so they can confidently and effectively rock their sessions and love the work they do through The Playful Therapist Blog and Meehan Mental Health Services training center.
Dr. KatySue is a Licensed Psychologist and a Registered Play Therapist. She facilitates a YouTube page with Tele-Play Therapy Tips and Interventions about a month ago and I have one published children's book on self-esteem. She is also host webinars and facilitate group and individual consultation for Tele-Play Therapy, complex child and adolescent therapy cases, and treatment planning and documentation.
To learn more:
Dr. Tillman's Free Tele-Play Therapy Tips, Interventions, and Webinars: https://www.youtube.com/c/DrKatySueTillmansTelePlayTherapyPage
Email Dr. Tillman at dr.katysuetillman@gmail.com for Information about Upcoming Webinars and Individual and Group Consultation for Tele-Play Therapy, Complex Therapy Cases, and Treatment Planning and Documentation.
Dr. Tillman's Children's Book about Self-Esteem, Wiley the Walrus Finds His Light: https://www.amazon.com/Wiley-Walrus-Finds-Light-Friends/dp/1540426432
Dr. Tillman's Email Address: dr.katysuetillman@gmail.com
Merab Chunge is an amazing teacher and therapist in Nairobi, Kenya. She integrates nature, expressive arts, therapeutic touch and more into her work with children and families
As a therapist, Jen helps people organize traumatic and difficult experiences so that people can experience more joy in their lives and relationships. As a teacher, she helps other therapists find steady theoretical footing so that they can creatively amplify healing across the globe. She helps teach all people how to use their journal to harness their own inner wisdom. And as a writer...well, she writes daily in her journal, occasionally in blogs and whenever possible in growing collection of professional books.
Jen is a military spouse licensed in multiple states. She is a mother of a three (a daughter and then twin boys born just thirteen months later). She is an avid reader, an adventurous thrill-seeker, a travel enthusiast, and a girl who lifts weights and runs for fun.
Journal to the Self- - a 6 week course on how to use a journal for personal and/or professional growth.
Suite of online recorded play therapy training at courses.jentaylorplaytherapy.com
Maria founded Boulder Child Therapy and specializes in working with children and families using Play Therapy. Play Therapy empowers children to heal past hurts and gain confidence in facing new challenges. She is a Certified Synergetic Play Therapist. The therapeutic process focuses on mindfulness, social skills and authentic self-esteem.
Rotem is a Certified EMDR Therapist and an EMDRIA Consultant, and the creator and founder of the THE Art and Science of EMDR. He works with a diverse group of clients, including immigrants, refugees and individuals from all over the world.
Child Therapy Tips & Techniques with Some Demonstrations
💛THURSDAY
On Thursday, we’ll explore practical child therapy techniques and demonstrations, including storytelling, engaging resistant children and teens, focusing, parent engagement, mindful art directives, and bringing creative therapeutic product ideas to life.
Neal King
7 Sentence Story StructureLiana Lowenstein
Engaging Resistant Children and Teens in TherapyRose LaPiere
Focusing with DemonstrationDr. Becki Welsh
Engaging Parents in Play TherapyReina Lombardi
3 Mindful Art Directives in Therapy with Children & TeensBeth Richey
Transforming Your Creative Therapeutic Product Ideas into Reality
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💛 Liana Lowenstein
Presentation Slides with Activities
💛 Jamie Lynn Langley
The BIG 3 About Nature
💛 Ann Meehan
Progress Note Cheat Sheet
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Neal King is a faculty member of The Expressive Therapists Summit presenting in NYC and Los Angeles (Comedy Improv Therapy Group & CBT for Working with Social Anxiety Issues; Therapeutic Improvisation in Clinical Practice: Individual, Family & Group Approaches; Laugh the Anger Away: Playful & Creative Strategies for Engaging Men in Treatment) He is the Author and Developer: of “Dominant Thought Wins.” Over 7 hours of motivation and cognitive habit reconditioning audio for help with: Stress Management, Weight Control, Emotional Diabetes, and Smoke Cessation. He also is the Author: of “Comedy Improv Group Therapy: A Guide to Start and Run This Unique Group (Available on Amazon)
His speaking engagements and professional advancements include:
Speaker: American Diabetes Association of Philadelphia
Speaker and Educator: Doylestown Hospital Health and Wellness Center
Selected Candidate: United Nations Resiliency Program: Train the Trainers
Preferred Associate Vendor: Independence Blue Cross of Philadelphia
Educator: Improvisational Theater Workshop – Bucks County College, Council Rock HS
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https://kingmotivates.com/index.php/neal-king-lcsw/
Liana Lowenstein is a Registered Clinical Social Worker, Certified Play Therapist-Supervisor, and Certified TF-CBT Therapist who has been working with children and their families in Toronto since 1988.
Her 13 books are used by mental health professionals all over the world.
She is a dynamic speaker who has provided trainings throughout North America and abroad, including China, South Africa, Israel, England, Turkey, New Zealand, and Australia.
She is winner of the Monica Herbert award for outstanding contribution to play therapy in Canada.
Rose is an EMDR Consultant, and Synergetic Play Therapist Supervisor, is a trauma therapist who has been helping children and families for over 20 years. She is a writer, presenter, EMDR consultant, registered play therapist supervisor, and mother of two boys.
Rose works in private practice with children, adults, and families through the lens of attachment, mindfulness, therapeutic powers of play, interpersonal neurobiology, and family system theory. Rose has a passion in integrating nature and sand therapy into her work. She has co-edited a book, Nature-based Play and Expressive Therapies: Interventions for Working with Children, Teens, and Families which will be available in March 2022. She provides consultation sessions for therapists looking to become certified in EMDR and registered play therapists. Rose is the past president of the New Jersey Counseling Association-Creativity Division and currently serves on the board for the World Association of Sand Therapy Professionals.
I am teaching a workshop on February 18, 2021, 10 am -12 pm eastern: Self Care and Self Compassion for the Play Therapist- https://the-play-therapy-training-institute.teachable.com/p/self-care-and-self-compassion-for-the-play-therapist2 . This workshop will explore self-care and self-compassion activities through creative expression, guided mindfulness self-compassion meditation, and Focusing.
Becki has been working with children and families for 30 years, with a passion for parenting and trauma in play therapy. She counsels children, supports parents, and supervises those who also have a passion for kids. Becki is the Clinical Director of the non-profit 316 Counseling Center and Assistant Professor at Colorado Christian University’s Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program. She is President-Elect of the North Texas Chapter of the Texas Association for Play Therapy and a 2015 Leadership Academy graduate for the Association for Play Therapy. She lives in McKinney, Texas with her husband,Greg, and their two labradoodles Levi and Sophie. Of all her roles, her favorite is being “Gram” to her granddaughter Chloe.
Reina is a Registered Board Certified Art Therapist, Art Therapy Certified Supervisor, and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Qualified Supervisor practicing in Fort Myers, Florida. She is the owner of Florida Art Therapy Services, LLC where she and a small team of therapists provide in-person and technology facilitated individual and group art therapy and counseling services, contracted art therapy groups at various community agencies, as well as supervision and continuing education programming for counselors and art therapists. She has contributed to several academic texts on the topics of art therapy and clinical supervision, and is a frequent presenter/speaker at local and national professional conferences.
She also owns Creative Clinician’s Corner, LLC where she provides practice building resources and consultation services for creative arts therapists with a desire to build and scale their own private practice. She is the host of The Creative Psychotherapist Podcast where she interviews successful creative therapists about the tools and strategies they used to grow their dream practices, as well as how they have hustled to create additional streams of income using their knowledge and creativity by developing products and services that enhance their therapy practices.
In her spare time, she loves to play near or in the ocean with her husband and their dog, explore vast natural landscapes, and get messy in the kitchen creating complex but healthy recipes.
Creative Practice Builder Mastermind Group - https://www.creativeclinicianscorner.com/mastermind-group
Continuing Education Training - https://floridaarttherapyservices.com/continuing-education/
https://floridaarttherapyservices.com/continuing-education
https://www.creativeclinicianscorner.com/
"Creative Arts Based Group Therapy with Adolescents: Theory & Practice" (Haen & Webb, Eds) - I contributed a chapter on Art Therapy for Affect Regulation
"Integrating Expressive Arts and Play Therapy: A Guidebook for Mental Health Practitioners and Educators" (Green & Drewes, Eds) - I contributed a chapter on Art Therapy
https://www.instagram.com/floridaarttherapyservices
https://www.facebook.com/FloridaArtTherapyServices/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/florida-art-therapy-services-llc/
Brain and Body in Child Therapy
💗FRIDAY
On Friday, we’ll explore the connection between the brain, body, and therapeutic healing through yoga, sensory processing, polyvagal theory, affective touch, expressive arts, TraumaPlay, body awareness, and practical play therapy interventions.
Dr. Jenn Lefebre
Yoga in Child TherapyMarshall Lyles
Bottom-Up and Top Down ExplainedDr. Stephen Porges
PLAY as Defined by the Polyvagal TheoryCarol Kranowitz
Moving Through Sensory StrugglesLindsay Ishman
“The Edge”Dr. Janet Courtney
Affective TouchJackie Flynn
Supporting Children’s Awareness of the 3 States: Polyvagal Inspired Body ScansDr. Angela Cavett
Let’s Explore the Sensory Hallway at ChrysalisParis Goodyear-Brown
Introducing TraumaPlayDr. Cathy Malchiodi
Trauma and Expressive ArtsJackie Flynn
3 Practical Play Therapy Applications of the Polyvagal TheoryJackie Flynn
Animal Imagery Play Therapy Projection Cards
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💗 Dr. Jenn Lefebre
Playful Downward Dog Yoga Directive
💗 Jackie Flynn
Animal Imagery Play Therapy Projection Cards
💗 Paris Goodyear-Brown
Little U Book Coupon Code
💗 Dr. Rachel Altvater
5-4-3-2-1 Self Care Plan
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Dr. Jenn is a yoga teacher, personal trainer, Reiki Master of Masters, & holistic wellness coach. Dr. Jenn is the founder & director of Moon Phoenix Rising~Sustenance for the mind, body, heart, & soul & the innovative wellness program SoulCare by JennAnn.
Dr. Jenn integrates her substantial knowledge & background in clinical psychology, play therapy, neuroscience, & trauma with her deep personal work & professional immersion in Ayurveda, Little Flower Yoga, Hatha Yoga, Trauma Center Trauma Sensitive Yoga, Reiki, Tarot, nature, art, music, & photography in her innovative approach to holistic integrative wellness.
Dr. Jenn is a sought-after expert for speaking engagements, podcasts, and webinars on a variety topics...including vicarious trauma, healing the healer, complex trauma, embodiment, & trauma-informed yoga, movement, & exercise. She is also an advisor for the International Association of Trauma Professionals
& a faculty member of the Complex Trauma Training & Treatment Network.
Dr. Jenn is a mom of three amazing children, and loves to travel and take long road trips, especially to National Parks, waterfalls, mountains, and the ocean. When she's not working or with her family, you can find her covered in mud jumping over fire at an OCR event!
Marshall is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, has almost 20 years of practice in family and play therapy. He has extensive speaking and training experience and has worked in a variety of mental health settings. Most of Marshall’s clinical practice has focused on attachment trauma and its effect on family relationships. Marshall conducts consultation sessions with counseling professionals and leads training in both parenting and professional settings; much of his consultation and training focuses on the use of sandtray therapy within a trauma-informed context. He is EMDR-certified and TBRI-trained and uses these with foster and adoptive families. As Marshall is nearing the completion of his Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy, more writing opportunities are emerging and this has become a passionate point of interest for him. This includes non-academic writing like poetry and Marshall is currently pursuing certification as a poetic medicine practitioner.
To learn more, visit:
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Dr. Porges is Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium. In 1994 he proposed the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that links the evolution of the mammalian autonomic nervous system to social behavior and emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders. The theory is leading to innovative treatments based on insights into the mechanisms mediating symptoms observed in several behavioral, psychiatric, and physical disorders. He is the author of The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation (Norton, 2011), The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe, (Norton, 2017) and co-editor of Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory: The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies (Norton, 2018). He is the creator of a music-based intervention, the Safe and Sound Protocol ™ , which currently is used by more than 1400 therapists to improve spontaneous social engagement, to reduce hearing sensitivities, to improve language processing and state regulation.
Carol Stock Kranowitz, a teacher for 25 years, introduced Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) to parents and educators around the world. The Out-of-Sync Child is the first book in the “Sync” series. Her most recent publications are the Spanish translation, El Niño Desincronizado (2020), and a new sequel, The Out-of-Sync Child Grows Up: Coping with SPD in the Adolescent and Young Adult Years.
Carol earned her M.A. in Education and Human Development, focusing on special education, from The George Washington University. Visit the Out-of-Sync website to learn more.
Lindsay Ishman is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Registered Play Therapist & Registered Play Therapist Supervisor, and a Synergetic Play Therapist and Synergetic Play Therapist Supervisor. She has a private practice in Grand Junction, Colorado where she works with children, adolescents, and families. She has 15 years experience working with children in foster care and adoption with a focus on complex trauma, developmental trauma, attachment, and resilience. Additionally, as a clinical supervisor and consultant, Lindsay is inspired to help other professionals grow while enhancing a belief in themselves and their abilities.
Website: https://synergeticplaytherapy.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SynergeticPlayTherapyInstitute
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/synergeticplaytherapy/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/LisaDionSynergeticPlayTherapyInstitute
Dr. Courtney is Founder of FirstPlay Therapy® [a developmental infant and child play therapy model] and Founder and Editor of FirstPlay® Café: An e-magazine for parents (womb to six Years). She helped found and oversees the Play Therapy curriculum at Barry University, Miami Shores, Florida. Dr. Courtney is author and co-editor of Touch in Child Counseling and Play Therapy: An Ethical and Clinical Guide. New York, NY: Routledge, and her research into practitioner experiences of training in touch and Developmental Play Therapy is published in the American Journal of Art Therapy and the International Journal of Play Therapy. She is a Registered Play Therapy-Supervisor, TEDx Speaker and immediate past Chair of the Association for Play Therapy Ethics and Practice Committee. She is also former President of the Florida Association for Play Therapy and Chair of the Viola Brody Award Committee. FirstPlay® Therapy was awarded Third Place overall in the Best Practices Showcase at the First 1000 Days Infant Mental Health Summit (Sept, 2018) along with the Children’s Healing Institute.
She has two books scheduled for publication Spring, 2020 including, “Infant Play Therapy: Foundations, Models, Programs and Practice,” as well as “Healing Child and Family Trauma Through Expressive and Play Therapies: Art, Nature, Storytelling, Body and Mindfulness.” She has been invited to speak nationally and internationally including the Cayman Islands, England, Ireland, Morocco, Bali, Indonesia, Russia and the Ukraine. She is a provider through the Florida state boards of mental health and Massage Therapy, and an approved provider through the Association for Play Therapy. She specializes in infant mental health and infant play therapy, attachment interventions, therapeutic storytelling, nature-based play therapies, and Trauma related issues. Dr. Courtney’s new form of Kinesthetic Storytelling® can be found in her children’s book, The Magic Rainbow. Website: www.FirstPlayTherapy.com and www.FirstPlaycafe.com
Jackie Flynn is an experienced Certified EMDR therapist and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, Approved Provider for the Association for Play Therapy, as well as an advanced trainer, author and internationally known speaker.
She earned a certification from ILS, Integrated Listening Systems, to provide the Safe and Sound Protocol, or SSP, a non-invasive application of Polyvagal Theory to individuals of all ages.
While she is known best for her work with children, teens and families, she also works with individuals of all ages. Driven by her desire to greatly reduce the amount of human suffering in the world, she takes pride in her top-notch experiential trainings, consultations, and development of clinical resources. Her expertise in telehealth has allowed her to help clinicians from all over the world deliver the healing power of Play and EMDR therapies to people of all ages online.
In addition to her Play Therapy trainings, EMDR advanced training and consultation work, Jackie is the host of Play Therapy Community podcast and the annual Innovative Child Therapy Symposium, as well as a private practitioner working with children and families in the state of Florida.
Jackie Flynn declares that she has no conflict of interest, competing interest or commercial support for this Play Therapy program.This statement is not intended to apply to gifts and/or similar entertainment of nominal value that clearly are in keeping with good business ethics and do not obligate the trainee/recipient. Any matter of question or interpretation that arises relating to this policy should be brought to the attention of Jackie Flynn for investigation. Competing interests are avoided, defined as potential influences that may undermine the objectivity, integrity or perceived conflict of delivery of this program.
Dr. Cavett is a Licensed Psychologist, Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor, and Clinical Director at Chrysalis Behavioral Health Services and Training Center in Fargo, ND. She provides psychological evaluation as well as individual, family, and play therapies. Dr. Cavett specializes in trauma, including early developmental trauma/attachment, and mood disorders including Bipolar Disorder. She treats children and adolescents with the following presenting issues: Mood disorders (Depression, Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder, Bipolar Disorder), Anxiety Disorders (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Separation Anxiety Disorder, phobias), Behavioral Disorders (Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder), Executive Functioning Disorders (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders), Trauma (medical trauma, child abuse/neglect, witness of domestic violence, dog bites, traumatic grief), Autistic Disorder, and Reactive Attachment Disorder.
Paris is a certified EMDR therapist, is the creator of TraumaPlay®, a flexibly sequential play therapy model for treating trauma and attachment disturbances in family systems. She is the founder of the TraumaPlay® Institute, the Clinical Director of Nurture House, an Adjunct Instructor of Psychiatric Mental Health at Vanderbilt University, and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant. Paris has an international reputation as a dynamic and compassionate speaker, an master clinician, and a prolific author. She is a thought leader in the fields of child trauma, and play therapy, has received the APT award for Play Therapy Promotion and Education, gave a Ted Talk on Trauma and Play Therapy, served as the Executive Director of the Lipscomb Play Therapy and Expressive Arts Center. She is on the board of TNAPT, and is the author of multiple chapters and articles as well as eleven books, including the hot off the press volume Parents as Partners in Child Therapy: A Clinician’s Guide, and finds great joy in training clinicians all over the world in helping children heal.
To learn more:
Instagram:
@traumaplayinstitute
@Parisgoodyearbrown
@nurture_house
Facebook:
@traumaplayinstitute
@Parisgoodyearbrown
@nurturehouse
Dr. Malchiodi holds a doctorate in psychology and is also an expressive arts therapist specializing in the treatment of traumatic stress. She is the executive director of the Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute that has provided online and live training in expressive and somatosensory approaches to over 20,000 practitioners around the world. A popular presenter and workshop leader, she given over 700 invited keynotes and workshops throughout the US, Canada, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Australia. She has authored 20 books, including the bestselling Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy: Brain, Body, and Imagination in the Healing Process and Understanding Children’s Drawings. Her publications have been translated in over 20 languages.
Dr. Malchiodi has extensive experience in the areas of trauma, attachment, disaster relief, and adversity. She has assisted more than 500 agencies, organizations, and institutions in developing trauma-informed, expressive, and responsive programming including the World Health Organization, United Nations, Department of Defense, Kennedy Center, Harvard, MIT, Johns Hopkins, and numerous universities, mental health, community, and healthcare agencies in the US and throughout the world. For the last three decades she has worked with traumatized children, adolescents, adults, and families, expanding the range of understanding of non-verbal, sensory-based concepts and methods. Widely interviewed by a variety of news outlets, she has been featured Time Magazine, CNN, Cosmopolitan, Natural Living, Marie Clare, Australia Childhood Foundation, US News and World Report, and VICE, among others. She is a contributing writer for Psychology Today and has a readership of approximately 5.8 million on topics relevant to trauma recovery and restoration of the self, arts in healthcare and mental health, and self-care.
Trauma and Expressive Arts Therapy: Brain, Body, and Imagination in the Healing Process
Trauma-Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Therapy Institute
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