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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.

Meet the founders of Playful EMDR

Learn why EMDR and Play Therapy should be integrated.
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What other clinicians are saying about us

The workshop was phenomenal!! I learned so much wonderful and useful information.

Houston 2019

I have been a play therapist for 25ish years... I took the EMDR basics wanting tools and resources for children and families experiencing trauma. After the intense training, I was left unsure how to conceptualize for kids. Hallelujah!!!! Annie and Ann provided theory, technique, AND understanding. Exactly what I needed, I am seeing it come together!!! ~ Julie Thigpen, Texas

Advanced Integrative

This training was FANTASTIC! The two of you work so well together and created a relaxed environment for learning (even with the complexities of being online!). I am so appreciative of the many resources/ evaluation tools given. I will definitely be taking more courses with both of you. Thank you so much for this great experience

Online 2020

I wanted to thank you for providing such rich clinical material and the space to learn and integrate the information. Although I have taken many EMDR plus other intervention trainings in the past (EMDR with somatic, play + IFS), nothing has dramatically changed the way I practice quite like your trainings and supervision have for me. I also never in my wildest dreams thought that I would be able to process early childhood neglect and trauma as quickly and directly as I am able to now since leaving Buffalo. ~ Vicki Braunstein, New York

Advanced Integrative

The EMDR course was by far one of the best trainings I have ever taken. I wish I could have taken it years ago. You are an exceptional instructor! You communicated the information in a clear and understandable manner. I ended the training inspired!

Dawn Yates

2021