TraumaPlay™: A Flexibility Sequential Play Therapy Model for Treating Traumatized Children
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Cost: General Admission: $750 + processing fees
Early Bird Registration: Closes on December 31, 2025. Price will then increase to $825
Registration Closes: 2 weeks before the event
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Presenter: 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 and a master clinician. While she has spent the past 25 years specializing in treating trauma(sexual abuse, physical abuse, maltreatment and neglect) and attachment disturbances, as well as anxiety disorders. She often provides help for angry, dysregulated and depressed children and teens.
She is an Adjunct Instructor of Psychiatric Mental Health at Vanderbilt University, guest lecturer for several universities in middle Tennessee, and travels around the world helping clinicians, parents, and teachers better serve children from hard places. She particularly enjoys integrating trauma-informed approaches and is an EMDRIA Certified EMDR therapist. She also finds great joy in helping other clinicians create safe spaces for children and families. She is a child development expert and frequently provides parent consultation, dyadic assessment and parent coaching to help parents manage and resolve their children’s behavior problems. With trainings in Morocco, Russia, Ireland, Italy, Australia, Sweden, Istanbul, South Africa, Nepal, Turkey, Malaysia, China and South Korea, as well as frequent domestic presentations, she is best known for developing clinically sound, played-based interventions that integrate the neurobiology of trauma, the neurobiology of play, and the power of one to heal the other. She has received the APT award for Play Therapy Promotion and Education, serves on the Board of the Tennessee Association for Play Therapy, and served as the Executive Director of the Lipscomb Play Therapy and Expressive Arts Center.
She provides play therapy and licensure supervision and consults with various school districts, agencies, and mental health organizations to help develop play therapy programs and create more developmentally sensitive programming. Some of her most recent books includes Big Behaviors in Small Containers, Parents as Partners in Child Therapy: A Clinician’s Guide, Trauma and Play Therapy, Tackling Touchy Subjects, Play Therapy with Traumatized Children: A Prescriptive Approach and The Worry Wars: An Anxiety Workbook for Kids and their Helpful Adults. She delights in her husband, her three children, shifting paradigms, and holding hard stories for families in need.
Agenda: April 17-18, 2026
8:30 AM to 4:00 PM with two-15 minute breaks and an hour lunch
Training is for 20 CEs: 2 in-person days and includes 9 on-demand hours to be completed by participants after the in-person days.
Location: Oklahoma Christian University (Classroom TBA)
2501 E Memorial Rd, Edmond, OK 73013
Description: 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) Describe three play therapy interventions for assessing and increasing emotional literacy.
9) Explain the two developmental foundations discussed in the Parents as Partners component of the model.
10) List three play therapy interventions that invite disclosure in TraumaPlay™.
11) List five play therapy interventions that prompt coherent narrative building in TraumaPlay™.
12) List four prop-based play therapy interventions that help integrate somatic memories during coherent narrative building.
13) Explain several play therapy techniques that assist clients in challenging and restructuring cognitive distortions.
Click Here to Register
Cost: General Admission: $750 + processing fees
8:30 AM to 4:00 PM with two-15 minute breaks and an hour lunch
Early Bird Registration: Closes on December 31, 2025. Price will then increase to $825
Registration Closes: 2 weeks before the event
*PLEASE NOTE: Training and consultation can be accrued as licensure hours are being accrued, but a Certificate cannot be granted until a graduate is independently licensed.
Cancellation Policy:
• If OPTTI cancels a training, we will refund registration fee or participant can decide to use that as a credit to an upcoming training.
• Individual course cancellations for this training received before 30 days prior to scheduled training are refundable less a $75 administrative fee.
• Cancellations received within 30-15 days prior to this training will be refunded 50% of cost and no refunds will be given within 15 days prior to the training.
• Missed training (no shows) will not be given a refund.
• Must attend entire training, partial CE credit is not available.