TraumaPlay™ Foundational Training (May 2025)

Calling all Child Therapists!

Join us for this incredible 3-Day live training, taught by Traumaplay™ founder Paris Goodyear-Brown, LCSW, RPT-S.

” TraumaPlay™ is a flexibly sequential play therapy model for treating traumatized children that has been in development for the last 20 years as Paris Goodyear-Brown has worked with children and families with complex trauma to integrate several evidence based treatments into a developmentally sensitive play-based treatment continuum.”

May 2nd – 4th, 2025

Friday and Saturday: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Sunday: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Join us for this LIVE training opportunity, located in Southern NJ (location to be provided)

Early Bird Registration Fee (by March 1st): $800

Registration Fee: $850

Lunch and supplies included.

20 APT and NBCC CEUS Available!

Co-hosted by: Center for Counseling & Education and Bridge to Balance

To Pre-Register for this Course, click the button below and complete the form. Our staff will then contact you to complete your Registration.

Payment is required at time of registration completion.

Deadline to register: April 18th

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About This Course

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.

About Paris Goodyear-Brown, LCSW, RPT-S

Paris Goodyear-Brown, LCSW, RPT-S, is the creator of the TraumaPlay™ model, the founder and Clinical Director of Nurture House, and the Executive Director of the TraumaPlay™ Institute. She is an internationally renowned speaker, a prolific author (Check out Paris’s books here), and a master clinician.