Ann Beckley-Forest, LCSW, RPT-S, is a licensed clinical social worker in private practice in Buffalo, New York. Her specialties include attachment and child and adolescent trauma ; she also works with adult survivors. She is a registered play therapist and supervisor and an approved provider of play therapy continuing education through the Association for Play Therapy. She is also an EMDR International Association (EMDRIA)-approved consultant and a faculty member of the Child Trauma Institute, in addition to serving as the training chair of the EMDRIA Special Interest Group for children and adolescents.
She provides clinical consultation in person and remotely and gives trainings locally and around the United States and Asia. Her primary interest is in the intersection of play therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), and she has previously published on this topic in the Play Therapy magazine and the EMDRIA magazine, Go With That. Annie Monaco, LCSW, RPT, is a licensed clinical social worker, a registered play therapist, and a faculty member of both the Child Trauma Institute and University at Buffalo School of Social Work.
Annie travels throughout the United States and internationally providing trauma-informed trainings and agency and therapist consultation. She is a trainer of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and Progressive Counting (PC) and attachment and dissociation and is the chair of the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) Child and Adolescent Special Interest Group. She has extensive training in complex trauma, family therapy, play therapy, and restorative justice, and over 25 years of experience serving children, teens, families, and adults.
Her private practice in Amherst, New York, includes complex issues such as foster care, out-of-country adoptions, juvenile justice, and dissociation.