Blue Chair Family Therapy

10/08/2025

Join us at the next Playful EMDR workshop! Www.playfulemdr.com

We are providing an advanced training for the Houston Child Advocacy Center! Such amazing therapists who are already so skilled.. Danielle Jenkins, joined us to assist us in the training! She is one of our amazing CIT's and we are fortunate to have her aboard! She is almost a consultant!!

09/16/2025

I am doing a mini-workshop this Friday 10am virtually. We have free trainings twice a month!

Twice a month, you can join a live mini workshop for free! The 30 minute experience will include a Playful EMDR intervention or bits of information on a EMDR/Kid topic. Signing up under the “Hub Video and Handout” section will give you access to all the video recordings and handouts of past work...

09/11/2025

We are in the house supporting Playful EMDR! Come find us!

Are you here in Anaheim?!? Come play with us at our booth! Superhero selfies, freebies, stuff to buy! Come chat about high quality training and consultation, for children, teens and the child within us all!!

09/09/2025

08/28/2025

Please consider signing up!

✨ Get ready to expand your EMDR toolkit with PLAY! ✨

🔵 Workshop: Playful Solutions to Using EMDR for Children & Teens
🟣 Dates: Sept 26, 27 & 28, 2025
🟢 Times: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm ET daily
🟠 Location: Racker · 3226 Wilkins Rd · Ithaca, NY
🟡 Presenters: Ann Beckley-Forest, LCSW & Annie Monaco, LCSW
🟤 Credits: 15 EMDRIA Credits
⚪ Highlights: Hands-on strategies · Play-based EMDR tools · Family-inclusive approaches

Register Here: https://www.racker.org/events/playful-solutions-to-using-emdr-for-children-and-teens-for-play-therapists-and-child-therapists-day-1/

06/19/2025

Take a moment & celebrate Let's continue to abolish slavery.

06/19/2025

Greetings,

The Board of Behavioral Sciences is proposing additional amendments to its regulation proposal pertaining to advertising. The originally proposed text was initially noticed to the public on March 14, 2025 and the comment period closed on April 28, 2025.

The public comment period for the modified text ends on July 1, 2025.

Information about the modified text, as well as information about how to submit a written comment on the modifications to the text, can be found at https://www.bbs.ca.gov/about/law_reg.html --select the “Regulations” drop down, then select “Pending Regulations

Thanks,

Board of Behavioral Sciences

06/12/2025

Amazing training coming to you virtually!

💚 Support Healing in Adoptive Families 💚
Therapists—are you navigating EMDR with adoptive or foster youth? Especially in transracial and transcultural families?

This training blends EMDR, play therapy, and cultural humility to help you:
-Conceptualize trauma targets linked to implicit bias & microaggressions
-Resource caregivers & build secure identity pathways
-Use storytelling & expressive techniques for deeper healing

📆 August 8, 2025
🖥️ Live Webinar | 6.0 CE Hours
Register here ➡️ https://playfulemdr.com/upcoming-trainings/

06/10/2025

Register Today at Early Bird pricing until 6/15/25! Come play with us!

https://www.calplaytherapy.org/event/2025-calapt-southern-california-conference-august-8-9-92/register

05/17/2025

O me & get trained with Playful EMDR!

🦉 Early Bird Discount Ends May 30th!
Now’s the moment to save $200 on our EMDRIA-approved EMDR Basic Training, but only if you register by May 30th!

Here’s what you’ll get:
🔴 Early Bird Rate: $1,525
🟠 California residents save an additional $300
🟡 55 Contact Hours + 50 CEs
🟢 All required consultation included
🔵 Live, fully online via Zoom
🟣 Sabbath-observed schedule for accessibility
🔴 Bilingual (Spanish) practicum opportunities
🟠 Optional in-person practicum in Buffalo, NY (Aug 15, 18, 19)

📅 Training Runs: July 14 – October 23, 2025
🎯 Register before May 30th to lock in your savings!

🔗 https://playfulemdr.com/emdr-basic-trainings/

03/30/2025

Please join us for the next HUB for free EMDR training! Sign up today!

New Workshop Coming to the Playful EMDR HUB!

📅 Date: Friday, April 4th
🕐 Time: 1:00 PM EST
🎥 Workshop Title: Trauma History Using Movement & Safe Place for Kids that Don’t Know Safety

👩‍🏫 Presented by: Karli Coverdale, LMHC, RPT-S, BCBA, EMDRIA CIT

In this free 30-minute mini-workshop, Karli will share two playful, movement-based strategies:
🧯 Put Out the Fire – A creative Phase 1 activity to help kids share trauma stories through movement
🏰 A Protected Place – A safe place activity for kids who’ve never experienced real safety

These hands-on ideas help busy, guarded, or young clients access their stories and build safety—playfully.

💻 Register now – it’s free!
👉 https://playfulemdr.com/playful-emdr-hub/

03/12/2025

At Blue Chair Family Therapy, APC, we believe “everyone is welcome here” to enter our doors and to receive assistance in their healing journey.