Approved for 12 EMDRIA Credits

Prescriptive play therapy approaches to healing from trauma and adversity have particular potency in complex trauma, especially chronic betrayal trauma, or the experience of ongoing adversity at the hands of caregivers.  These wounded attachments lead to the child’s increasing need to rely on dissociation in order to manage and can lead to fragmented and disorganized, even extreme behaviors. This course will explore Gestalt play therapy techniques and other expressive and projective approaches using sand tray art, movement and creativity which flexibly integrate with trauma narratives and protocols (such as EMDR) by offering the child dramatic distance and titration of the intensity of the most painful narratives. The presenters will use experiential activities and in-depth case examples to illustrate a way to gently explore and support the fragmented states of highly dissociative children and move them towards healing, ideally with the increasing support of caregivers.

Presenters: Annie Monaco, LCSW & Ann Beckley-Forest, LCSW

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