503: Play Therapy + EMDR With Kids - With Ann Beckley Forest + Annie Monaco
Therapy Chat
Laura Reagan, LCSW-C
4.4 • 762 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Therapy Chat! This week is a replay episode with Ann Beckley Forest and Annie Monaco, two EMDR therapists who together make up Playful EMDR.
Ann and Annie talk about how they use EMDR in combination with play therapy with children who have experienced disrupted attachment relationships and trauma.
As always, I had many questions and they answered them all. If you found Robyn Gobbel's episode interesting a couple months ago, here is another take on working with the same population of children in therapy. I hope this will inspire you to think outside the box about working with traumatized children.
Resources
Find Playful EMDR at: www.playfulemdr.com - their summit is coming up and they have an EMDR training starting in December 2023.
Keep up with Annie Monaco via: www.anniemonaco.com,
Ann Beckley Forest is found at: www.annbeckleyforest.com
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| 0:00.0 | Therapy Notes is the highest rated EHR, practice management, and billing software for mental health |
| 0:05.1 | professionals. It's all-in-one platform is designed to streamline all aspects of your practice, |
| 0:10.2 | from connecting with clients via secure messages to scheduling, notes, billing, and more. |
| 0:15.0 | You can trust Therapy Notes has you covered. And one of the best parts? 24-7 customer service |
| 0:20.3 | with a live person. It's beyond easy to get help |
| 0:23.1 | over the phone or by email at any time of day from their knowledgeable and friendly representatives. |
| 0:27.9 | The best time to give Therapy Notes a try is now. Sign up for your free trial by going to |
| 0:32.2 | TherapyNotes.com, clicking Start My Free Trial, and accessing your first two months free with the promo code chat. |
| 0:38.6 | CY Therapy Notes is the most trusted EHR for behavioral health professionals today. |
| 0:43.5 | Therapists, ready to stop just listening and start doing? |
| 0:46.8 | I offer several ways to work with me and accelerate your trauma expertise. |
| 0:50.6 | You can join my Trauma Therapist Network membership community for ongoing support, book a one-on-one |
| 0:55.6 | clinical consultation with me for personalized guidance, or buy my course for clinicians on supporting |
| 1:00.8 | survivors of sexual trauma, and check out the retreats coming up in 2026. All that info and more is on |
| 1:07.0 | the four therapists page of Trauma Therapist Network, and you can find a link in the show notes. |
| 1:12.0 | Therapy Chat Podcast, Episode 503. |
| 1:16.2 | This is the Therapy Chat podcast with Laura Reagan, LCSWC. |
| 1:22.9 | The information shared in this podcast is not a substitute for seeking help from a licensed mental health professional. |
| 1:29.7 | And now, here's your host, Laura Reagan. And this week, as we've been talking about attachment development and the importance of addressing |
| 2:05.2 | attachment wounds in childhood, I'm bringing you a replay of my conversation with Anne Beckley |
| 2:12.3 | Forrest and Annie Monaco, who created playful EMDR. It is a way of using EMDR with play therapy. And in our conversation, |
| 2:22.4 | we talked about how intervening when children are still in childhood saves them so much |
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