August 18th, 2021
Presenter Bio
Paris Goodyear-Brown, LCSW, RPT-S has over 24 years of experience in working with traumatized children and their families. She is the Clinical Director of Nurture House, a child and family treatment center in Franklin, TN, and the creator of TraumaPlay℠, a flexibly sequential play therapy model for treating trauma and attachment disturbances. She is a sought after speaker and trains clinicians, parents, and teachers around the globe. She is an Adjunct Instructor of Psychiatric Mental Health at Vanderbilt University, guest lecturer for several universities in middle Tennessee, and provides play therapy and licensure supervision and consults with various school districts, agencies and mental health organizations to help develop play therapy programs and create more developmentally sensitive, trauma-informed classrooms and clinics. She has served as the Executive Director of the Lipscomb Play Therapy and Expressive Arts Center, has received the APT award for Play Therapy Promotion and Education, and recently gave a TedTalk on Trauma and Play Therapy. She is the author of multiple books, chapters and articles related to child therapy, including the Handbook of Child Sexual Abuse, Play Therapy with Traumatized Children, Tackling Touchy Subjects, A Safe Circle for Little U, and Penelope the Peacock.
Program Description
Anxiety disorders are at an all-time high in the wake of the global pandemic. For many of our clients with Separation Anxiety, OCD, school phobia, or any other anxiety driven need to control their environments, COVID-19 only helped to intensify their beliefs and problematic patterns of behavior. In addition, the big behaviors that children exhibit as they dig in for control over the things that make them anxious have been experienced within much more constrained family systems this year. Come join us in exploring tried and true therapeutic metaphors and tools as we provide more nuance to their application in this new normal. Clinicians will learn how to help children boss back the anxious thoughts, learn what their bodies are telling them in the midst of anxiety, equip parents as SOOTHING partners who do not collude with the anxiety, and employ playful ways to do the hard thing anyway.
- Dates: Wednesday August 18th, 2021
- Location: Live Webinar Via Zoom (3 Non-Contact Hours)
- Time: 10:15 AM – 1:30 PM EST
- Cost: $55.00
- Cancellation Policy can be viewed here.
- Continuing Education:
- Brighter Futures Counseling, PLLC has been approved by NBCC as an approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7035. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Brighter Futures Counseling, PLLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
- APT Approved Provider # 20-599.
