Ann Beckley-Forest, LCSW, RPT-S, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice in Buffalo, New York.   Her specialties include attachment and child and adolescent trauma, and she also works with adult survivors.  She has been a play therapist for over 20 years and is both a Registered Play Therapy Supervisor and Approved Provider of play therapy continuing education through the Association for Play Therapy, as well as being a past Board member  of the New York branch of APT.  She is also an EMDR Approved Consultant and Virtual Basic Trainer and an affiliated  faculty member of the Child Trauma Institute.   She provides consultation in person and remotely, and gives trainings locally and internationally. Her primary interest is in the intersection of play therapy and EMDR and has published on this topic including as co-editor of EMDR with Children in the Play Therapy Room: An Integrated Approach (2020).

Annie Monaco, LCSW-R, RPT-S, is co-founder of Playful EMDR, an online hub for training and consultation in treating trauma-exposed children. Annie travels internationally and throughout the US providing specialty trainings EMDR with children and teens and treating attachment wounds and work with children using dissociative strategies. Annie has extensive experience with foster care, out of country adoptions, and at-risk teenagers and family therapy. Through the Child Trauma Institute & Trauma Institute, Annie is an EMDRIA approved trainer of EMDR and trainer of Progressive Counting and provides consultation to therapists and agencies.

Annie was a Director of Restorative Justice programs at a non-profit agency where she oversaw juvenile and adult offender programs for over 10 years. Presently her private practice includes a multitude of behaviors and issues including foster care, out of country adoptions, juvenile justice and dissociation. Annie is the co-editor and contributor of chapters for EMDR with Children in the Play Therapy Room, An Integrated Approach (2020) and contributing chapter for EMDR and Creative Arts Therapies (2022).

Email: monaco.training.center@gmail.com
Website: www.anniemonaco.com, www.playfulemdr.com