This pioneering guidebook fully integrates the theoretical foundations and practical applications of play therapy and EMDR in order to maximize healing in in children with trauma. By highlighting the work of innovative EMDR therapists and play and expressive art therapists and their pioneering clinical work, the authors provide a fully integrated approach to using EMDR in a play therapy context while being faithful to both play therapy principles and the 8 phases of the EMDR standard protocol.
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I am a Licensed Clinical Master Level Social Worker (LCSW) and Registered Play Therapist with over 25 years providing therapy and trainings. Since 2006, I have been providing trauma informed trainings internationally and throughout the US to non-profit agencies and therapists. My trainings specialize in trauma resolution methods, attachment and dissociation interventions, and effectively working with children and adolescents with complex issues using play-based trauma therapy techniques.
My extensive clinical experience includes family therapy and trauma therapy for adults with complex trauma histories and to children with a multitude of behaviors and issues including foster care, out of country adoptions and teenage offenders. Learn more.
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