Introducing

Playful EMDR's

NEW Three part Series for

Intermediate Topics!

Session 1: Treatment of Childhood Attachment wounds for Play Therapists and EMDR Child Therapists 

Date: July 8th, 2026 

Time: 10:00am-5:00pm Eastern (9am-4pm Central, 7am-3pm Pacific)

Place: Virtual 

Cost: $189 

CE’s: 6

Trainers: Ann Beckley-Forest, LCSW, RPT-S and Annie Monaco, LCSW, RPT-S

Description: 

Early wounded attachments and chronic betrayal trauma lead to the child’s increasing need to rely on dissociation strategies in order to manage challenging memories, emotions and body sensations. This will lead to fragmented and disorganized and extreme behaviors. Prescriptive play therapy approaches to healing from attachment wounds and adversity have potency in complex trauma especially if there is ongoing adversity at the hands of caregivers.

We will explore play therapy techniques and other expressive and projective approaches using sand tray art, movement and creativity which flexibly integrate with trauma narratives and protocols by offering the child distance and titration of their most intense and painful memories. 

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Session 2: Play therapy-supported EMDR treatment of Dissociation Strategies in the Therapy Room 

Date: Tuesday, August 4th, 2026 

Time: 10:00am-5:00pm Eastern (9am-4pm Central, 7am-3pm Pacific) 

Place: Virtual 

Cost: $189 

CEs: 6

Trainers: Ann Beckley-Forest, LCSW, RPT-S and Annie Monaco, LCSW, RPT-S

Description 

Dissociative child and teen clients who exhibit concerning problem behaviors are often challenging to therapists to not only engage in treatment but provide effective trauma therapy. This workshop will describe how a client splits into parts of self-including victim, protective and imitator parts. This workshop will focus on protective parts and imitator parts that are hostile and aggressive at home, school and community and how they attempt to torpedo therapeutic treatment through violent or destructive actions to themselves, caregivers, and the therapist.  

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Session 3: Play Therapy and EMDR Family-Supported Processing 

Special emphasis on womb, pre-verbal and early childhood memories 

Dates: August 20th and September 2nd, 2026 (must attend both days) 

Time: 10:00am-3:00pm each day (9am-2pm Central, 7am-12pm Pacific) 

Place: Virtual 

Cost: $209 

CE’s: 9

Trainers: Ann Beckley-Forest, LCSW, RPT-S and Annie Monaco, LCSW, RPT-S



Description: 

Research supports the premise that working to heal the harm from trauma and adversity experienced by children necessitates comprehensive work with the family system. This workshop will help clinicians to conceptualize targets for EMDR processing while mobilizing caregivers as agents in the child’s healing. 

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