2022 Innovative Child Therapy Symposium, Therapist Extraordinaire Pass
3rd Annual Innovative Child Therapy Symposium
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This symposium is designed to support CHILD THERAPISTS around the world.
With the THERAPIST EXTRAORDINAIRE PASS,
you gain access to over 50 speaker sessions and all of our bonus materials!
Join Jackie Flynn, the host of Play Therapy Community® podcast, in conversation with over 50 top-notch experts, brilliant healing professionals in our field of children’s mental health.
Check out our AMAZING expert guests this year for a seemingly limitless amount incredible integrative and innovative therapeutic approaches, ideas, and such in respect to children in various stages of development.
MONDAY
💚Understanding Common Terms Relating to Gender Identity and Sexuality with Samantha Willis
💚Working with Young Clients with Suicide Ideation with Heather Fairlee Denbrough
💚When Working with Children & Families of Adoption & Foster Care with Jeanette Yoffe
💚A Team Treatment Approach for Working with Eating Disorders with Marnie Davis
💚Key Terms and Phrases to Know When Working with Autistic Children and Teens with Dr. Robert Jason Grant
💚The Language of Grief for Kids with Diane (Dee Dee) Diaz Rodriguez
💚Recognizing PANS: Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome with Dr. Montserrat Casado
💚Punishment ≠ Discipline with Dr. Dalena Dillman Taylor
TUESDAY
🤎What is Sandtray Therapy? with Marshall Lyles and Linda Homeyer
🤎Dissociation in Children: Meet AIMEE with Annie Monaco and Ann Beckley Forest
🤎 Glimpse of Internal Family Systems and Play Therapy Integrated with Carmen Jimenez Pride
🤎Focusing on Attachment in Play Therapy with Clair Mellenthin
🤎Integrating Nature in Play Therapy with Jamie Lynn Langley
🤎What is TraumaPlay®? with Paris Goodyear Brown
🤎Working with Traumatized Children with Theresa Fraser
🤎A Taste of What Quality Play Therapy Supervision Can Entail with Dr. Jenn Lefebre
🤎Oaklander Model Demonstrated: Puppet Play & Music in Therapy with Dr. Karen Fried
🤎Ways to Incorporate Bibliotherapy into your Practice with Children and Families with Lynn Louise Wonders
🤎 Integrating Digital Play Therapy into Your Child Therapy Practice with Dr. Jessica Stone
🤎Introducing Animal Assisted Play Therapy® with Dr. Risë VanFleet
🤎Superheroes and Villains in Play Therapy with Sophia Ansari
🤎EMDR with Kids with Jackie Flynn
🤎Play and Art Narrative in Trauma Treatment with Karen Wallace
WEDNESDAY
🧡Let's Tour Kim Martinez's Group Play Therapy Practice Office
🧡"I don't want my name on the cover. 😔" with Tiffanie Trudeau
🧡How to Create a Safe Therapeutic Space in Play Therapy with Dr. David Crenshaw and Tammi VanHollander
🧡When Imposter Syndrome Sets In with Lisa Dion
🧡When Therapists Go To Therapy with Dr. Rachel Altvater
🧡How to Structure a Play Therapy Progress Note with Ann Mehan
🧡Maintaining the integrity of Play Therapy Online with Dr. KatySue Tillman
🧡Meet Merab: Play Therapy in Africa with Merab Chunge
🧡Let's Tour Dora's Play Therapy Private Practice with Dora Henderson
🧡Play and Art Therapy Online with Young Children with Maria Arais
🧡Re-igniting Creativity with Rotem Brayer
🧡Permission with Jenn Taylor
THURSDAY
💛 7 Sentence Story Structure with Neal King
💛Engaging Resistant Children and Teens in Therapy with Liana Lowenstein
💛Focusing with Demonstration with Rose LaPiere
💛 Engaging Parents in Play Therapy with Dr. Becki Welsh
💛3 Art Therapy Directives in Child Therapy With Reina Lombardi
💛Transforming Your Creative Therapeutic Product Ideas into Reality with Beth Richey
FRIDAY
❤️Yoga in Child Therapy with Dr. Jenn Lefebre
❤️Bottom-Up and Top Down Explained with Marshall Lyles
❤️Moving Through Sensory Struggles with Carol Kranowitz
❤️"The Edge" with Lindsay Ishman
❤️PLAY as Defined by the Polyvagal Theory with Dr. Stephen Porges
❤️Affective Touch with Dr. Janet Courtney
❤️Supporting Children's Awareness of the 3 States: Polvagal Inspired Body Scans
❤️Let's Explore the Sensory Hallway at Chrysalis with Dr. Angela Caveat
❤️Trauma and Expressive Arts with Dr. Cathy Malchiodi
Your Instructor
Jackie Flynn is a trauma therapist, EMDR trainer, and Registered Play Therapist Supervisor™ who has spent her career helping children, teens, and families heal in ways that feel safe, creative, and grounded. She is the author of the EMDR with Kids Flip Chart: A Play-Based Tool for Trauma Processing, Nervous System Regulation, and the Transformation of Adaptive Behaviors. She is also the creator of EMDR Playground, EMDR with Kids, Play Therapy Community, and the host of the annual Innovative Child Therapy Symposium.
Jackie is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and Trainer. She teaches EMDR with deep respect for fidelity while honoring the nervous system and the lived realities of children. Her work brings together the structure of EMDR with the natural language of play, relationship, and sensory experience.
She draws from the AIP model, polyvagal-informed practice, the neurosequential model, and years of clinical work with complex trauma. Her approach is warm, experiential, and practical. She focuses on helping therapists feel more confident and steady in their work, with tools that are easy to understand and rooted in real clinical moments.
Jackie is a former school counselor with a lifelong commitment to helping young people regulate, make meaning, and move toward healing in ways that feel authentic and developmentally attuned.
Course Curriculum
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Start💚Understanding Common Terms Relating to Gender Identity and Sexuality with Samantha Willis (56:56)
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Start💚Working with Young Clients with Suicidal Ideation with Heather Fairlee Denbrough (22:56)
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Start💚When Working with Children & Families of Adoption & Foster Care with Jeanette Yoffe (56:01)
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Start💚A Team Treatment Approach for Working with Eating Disorders with Marnie Davis (30:29)
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Start💚Key Terms and Phrases to Know When Working with Autistic Children & Teens with Dr. Robert Jason Grant (30:39)
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Start💚The Language of Grief for Kids with Diane (Dee Dee) Diaz Rodriguez (45:01)
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Start💚Raising Awareness of PANS: Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome with Dr. Montserrat Casado (22:58)
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Start💚Punishment ≠ Discipline with Dr. Dalena Dillman Taylor (16:52)
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Start🤎What is Sandtray Therapy? with Marshall Lyles and Linda Homeyer (29:46)
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Start🤎Dissociation in Children: Meet ALLMEE©: A Therapeutic Doll with Annie Monaco and Ann Beckley Forest (19:48)
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Start🤎 Glimpse of Internal Family Systems and Play Therapy Integrated with Carmen Jimenez Pride (35:27)
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Start🤎Strengthening Attachment in Play Therapy with Clair Mellenthin (35:49)
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Start🤎Integrating Nature in Play Therapy with Jamie Lynn Langley (23:49)
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Start🤎Working with Traumatized Children with Theresa Fraser (29:44)
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Start🤎A Glimpse of What Quality Play Therapy Supervision Can Entail with Dr. Jenn Lefebre (25:36)
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Start🤎Oaklander Model Demonstrated: Puppet Play & Music in Therapy with Dr. Karen Fried (46:32)
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Start🤎Ways to Incorporate Bibliotherapy into your Practice with Children and Families with Lynn Louise Wonders (18:32)
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Start🤎 3 Ways to Incorporate Digital Play Therapy into Your Child Therapy Practice with Dr. Jessica Stone (19:51)
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Start🤎Animal Assisted Play Therapy® Described with Dr. Risë VanFleet (49:05)
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Start🤎Superheroes and Villians in Play Therapy with Sophia Ansari (50:16)
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Start🤎EMDR with Kids with Jackie Flynn (26:37)
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Start🤎Play and Art Narrative in Trauma Treatment with Karen Wallace (71:42)
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