Presenters:
Ann Beckley-Forest, LCSW, RPT-S
Annie Monaco, LCSW, RPT-S
Dates / Times:
September 26: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
September 27: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
September 28: 9:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Location:
Wilkins Road Large Conference Room
3226 Wilkins Road Ithaca, NY
Cost: $400 per person
This training will explore how to integrate EMDR into play therapy for children and adolescents. Participants will learn developmentally sensitive ways to obtain trauma history, use play therapy interventions to install positive beliefs, and adapt the EMDR protocol for tactile and attachment-based approaches. Through lectures, case examples, videos, and small group practice, attendees will gain strategies for titrating trauma content, integrating parents, managing dissociative parts, and using storytelling and expressive modalities in EMDR processing.
Who: Play therapists, child therapists, and EMDR-trained clinicians working with children and adolescents. Previous EMDR Basic Training is required.
What: 15-CE experiential training on integrating EMDR into play therapy.
Where: Wilkins Road Large Conference Room, 3226 Wilkins Road, Ithaca, NY.
When: September 26–28, 2025.
Why: To equip therapists with playful, developmentally appropriate methods for EMDR with children and teens.
How: Interactive lectures, demonstrations, case examples, video clips, and small group practice led by nationally recognized experts in EMDR and play therapy.
Registration at
https://www.racker.org/events/playful-solutions-to-using-emdr-for-children-and-teens-for-play-therapists-and-child-therapists-day-1/
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