Presented By: Paris Goodyear-Brown, LCSW, RPT-S

About the Presenter: Paris Goodyear-Brown, MSSW, LCSW, RPT-S, is an internationally recognized play therapist, author, speaker, and trainer specializing in the treatment of childhood trauma, attachment challenges, anxiety, and dysregulation. She is the founder and Executive Director of the TraumaPlay Institute and Clinical Director of Nurture House in Franklin, Tennessee. Paris has more than 25 years of clinical experience working with children and families and has trained mental health professionals across the United States and around the world.

A prolific author and contributor to the play therapy literature, Paris has written numerous books and book chapters, including Trauma and Play Therapy: Helping Children Heal, Parents as Partners in Child Therapy, and Big Behaviors in Small Containers. She is the developer of the TraumaPlay™ model, an integrative, evidence-informed approach for treating children who have experienced trauma.

Paris serves as adjunct faculty at Vanderbilt University, is a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor™, EMDR Consultant, and past President-Elect of the Tennessee Association for Play Therapy. She is a sought-after keynote speaker who has presented internationally throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada, and the United States on topics including trauma, attachment, play therapy, caregiver involvement, and child development.

Friday and Saturday, March 19-20, 2027

CE Content: 9am - 5pm, both days, 12 APT Contact CEs (pending)

Location: TBD (Portland or Salem, OR)

Learn how to use this playful, components-based, evidence-informed treatment with traumatized children and teens. Paris will share her flexible, sequential model, identifying specific treatment goals with corresponding interventions. She will differentiate between trauma treatment goals that are can be accomplished through non-directive methods and goals that are best served by integrating parents as partners, utilizing somatic grounding techniques, cognitive-behavioral play therapy interventions, expressive therapy techniques, dyadic work, and playful ways to complete trauma narrative work. Participants will leave with an expanded toolkit of interventions and a revived sense of excitement about the process. Come prepared to play!

Learning Objectives:

1. List all seven primary components of TraumaPlay™

2. List the three roles of the TraumaPlay™ Therapist

3. Describe several self-directed ways in which children use the playroom to increase their sense of safety and security in play therapy.

4. List three therapist-directed activities for enhancing safety and security in play therapy.

5.  Describe four play therapy interventions that assess and augment coping.

6. Describe three play therapy interventions that decrease a child’s sense of physiological arousal.

7. Describe six play therapy interventions that help parents co-regulate their children more effectively.

8. Explain the two developmental foundations discussed in the Parents as Partners component of the model.

9. List three play therapy interventions that invite disclosure in TraumaPlay™.

10. List five play therapy interventions that prompt coherent narrative building in TraumaPlay™.

11. List four prop-based play therapy interventions that help integrate somatic memories during coherent narrative building.

12. Explain several play therapy techniques that assist clients in challenging and restructuring cognitive distortions.

ORAPT/APT Member: $300

Professional Non-Member: $350

Student: $220

ORAPT is an APT Approved Provider (#99-054). 12 APT Contact CEs provided (pending)*

*The Oregon Board of Licensed Social Workers (OBLSW) has placed the Association for Play Therapy (APT) on its list of Accepted Credentialing Bodies. Social workers who take courses approved by an APT Approved Provider (such as ORAPT) can count the hours toward their continuing education requirement.*