Workshop Descriptions
All presentations will be hosted in Denton, TX.
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Registration closes: TBD or when capcity has been reached
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday AM | Thursday PM | Friday
Monday, June 24, 2024
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM CT
Introduction to TraumaPlay™
Paris Goodyear-Brown, MSSW, LCSW, RPT-S
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Paris Goodyear-Brown, MSSW, LCSW, RPT-STM
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.
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM CT
Family Ties: Using Family Play Therapy to Loosen Binds and Strengthen Bonds
Nick Cornett, PhD, LPC, LMFT, RPTTM
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Nick Cornett, PhD, LPC, LMFT, RPTTM
Dr. Nick Cornett is an Associate Professor in the Graduate Counseling Program at John Brown University. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Arkansas and a Registered Play Therapist through the Association for Play Therapy. Dr. Cornett is a member of the American Counseling Association, the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the Association for Counselor Education and Supervision, and the Association for Play Therapy. In addition to teaching, he works with children, adolescents, and families in private practice. Dr. Cornett is passionate about working with children and families through the integration of play therapy and family therapy.
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM CT
Generation Alpha and Beyond: Nervous System Regulation in the Playroom
Rebeca Chow, Ph.D., LPC, LCPC, RPT-STM
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Rebeca Chow, Ph.D., LPC, LCPC, RPT-STM
Dr. Rebeca Chow is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Supervisor in Missouri/Kansas and a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor. Her counseling experience includes 25 years of clinical work in academic, for-impact, and for-profit settings. Dr. Chow’s specialty areas are diversity and inclusion, neurobiology of mental health, leadership, supervision, and generational research. Her passion for helping others achieve their potential and balanced mental health is now global as she presents at counseling and educational conferences.
Thursday, AM, June 27, 2024
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT
Utilizing Expressive Arts and Play-based Interventions to Facilitate Child and Adolescent Career Development
Natalya Lindo, PhD, LPC
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Natalya Lindo, PhD, LPC
Dr. Lindo, Professor and Chair at the University of North Texas, specializes in the development and implementation of play-based mental health initiatives for school and community counseling settings, with a focus on capacity building, parent consultation models, and professional development training for teachers. Consistent with a secondary passion for career-development across the lifespan, Dr. Lindo developed an expressive arts career counseling group intervention for children and adolescents. Woven throughout her research projects and collaborative scholarship is a commitment to serving systematically minoritized or marginalized communities and employing qualitative methodologies to centralize the voices of participants.
Thursday, AM, June 27, 2024
1:30 - 4:30 PM CT
Culturally Inclusive Play Therapy Supervision: Exploring and Developing Cultural Humility
Natalya Lindo, PhD, LPC
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Natalya Lindo, PhD, LPC
Dr. Lindo, Professor and Chair at the University of North Texas, specializes in the development and implementation of play-based mental health initiatives for school and community counseling settings, with a focus on capacity building, parent consultation models, and professional development training for teachers. Consistent with a secondary passion for career-development across the lifespan, Dr. Lindo developed an expressive arts career counseling group intervention for children and adolescents. Woven throughout her research projects and collaborative scholarship is a commitment to serving systematically minoritized or marginalized communities and employing qualitative methodologies to centralize the voices of participants.
Friday, June 28, 2024
9:00am - 4:30pm CT
Play Therapy and Autistic Children: Examining Affirming Therapeutic Processes
Robert Jason Grant, Ed.D, LPC, NCC, RPT-STM
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Robert Jason Grant, Ed.D, LPC, NCC, RPT-STM
Robert Jason Grant received his Doctorate Degree in Educational Leadership (with a research emphasis in leadership qualities of counseling center and clinic directors), his Master’s Degree in Counseling, and his Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor, National Certified Counselor, and a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor. He specializes in working with children, adolescents, families, and adults primarily serving neurodivergent individuals (autism, ADHD, sensory differences, learning disorders, and developmental disabilities). Dr. Grant is the creator of AutPlay® Therapy, an integrative family play therapy framework designed to help address the mental health needs of neurodivergent children and adolescents. He is also trauma informed and trained and utilizes EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing).
Dr. Grant is a supervisor, consultant, and life coach and utilizes several years of advanced training and his own lived neurodivergent experience to provide affirming services to children and their families. He has infused his experience and love for education and mental health care to create training programs for professionals and caregivers. He is an international trainer and keynote presenter having presented for the American Counseling Association, Association for Play Therapy, American Mental Health Counselors Association, and The World Autism Congress. He is also a multi-published author of several articles, book chapters, and books including the following titles:
The AutPlay® Therapy Handbook: Integrative Family Play Therapy with Neurodivergent Children
Play Interventions for Neurodivergent Children and Adolescents: Promoting Growth, Empowerment, and Affirming Practices
Understanding Sensory Differences: A Neurodiversity Affirming Guidebook for Children and Teens
Understanding Autism: A Neurodiversity Affirming Guidebook for Children and Teens
Understanding ADHD: A Neurodiversity Affirming Guidebook for Children and Teens
Implementing Play Therapy with Groups: Contemporary Issues in Practice
Play Therapy Theories and Perspectives: Diversity of Thought in the Field
In 2015, Dr. Grant was awarded Play Therapist of the Year by the Missouri Association for Play Therapy. In 2017, He was presented with the APT Service Award by the National Association for Play Therapy. He is currently serving on the board of directors for the Association for Play Therapy, and he is a board member for the Digital Play Therapy program. Dr. Grant is also a part time instructor in the Play Therapy Certificate program at Mid America Nazarene University (MNU).
Due to the confidentiality and nature of topics presented, children (of any age) will not be permitted to any conference workshops.