Welcome to Playful EMDR!
We are a home for the growing community of EMDR therapists and Play Therapists working to give children the best possible treatment! Ann Beckley-Forest and Annie Monaco specialize in EMDR therapy for children and teens as well as being Registered Play Therapists. The trainings offered through Playful EMDR are interactive and practical, and we are striving to articulate a model of trauma treatment that fully integrates the EMDR protocol with the therapeutic powers of play. We are happy to be promoting and supporting the innovative work of our colleagues who are partners in these approaches as well. We are glad you found us.
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Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Statement
We aspire to be a resource for all communities and to serve in respect to all communities. We explicitly welcome BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, neurodiverse, and all abilities clinicians to our training programs and encourage a proactive approach to recruitment and the mentoring of leaders of diverse backgrounds in the play therapy and EMDR communities. We are a work in progress in developing teaching and consultation models which embody the principles of social justice, anti-racist practice, therapeutic humility, and cultural inclusion. We are continuing to develop teaching approaches that are collaborative with the goal of hosting a respectful learning community at all times. We ask all our participants, as well as our own team, to commit to these principles and hold each other accountable in our implicit and explicit bias with kindness and respect.