TraumaPlay™ Foundational Training (May 2025)

Calling all Child Therapists!

Join us for this incredible Foundational Traumaplay™ taught by founder Paris Goodyear-Brown, LCSW, RPT-S.

Includes:

2-Day live training 

9 hour virtual, on-demand finisher course

” 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 – 3rd, 2025

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

This LIVE training opportunity will take place at Katz Jewish Community Center

1301 Springdale Rd., Cherry Hill, NJ 08003

Registration Fee:  $700

Register before March 21st for early bird discount – $650

*Includes lunch, materials, and a wealth of resources to elevate your trauma-informed play therapy practice.

14 NBCC hours & APT CE hours

Center for Counseling and Education, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7528. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Center for Counseling and Education, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

APT Approved Provider 15-439

To Register for this Training, click the button below.

*Pre-payment is required.

Deadline to register: April 18th

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.

Why Attend?

Deepen Your Expertise: Learn from Paris Goodyear-Brown herself as she shares powerful, playful, and practical interventions.  Paris is an international presenter who is thoroughly engaging and fun! 

Structure your approach to working with trauma: With Traumaplay™  you will leave with a clear framework for working with your child clients who have experienced trauma.

Develop Connections: Be in a learning community with like-minded peers where you will have the opportunity to practice skills and network.