Paris Goodyear-Brown, LCSW, RPT-S, is the creator of TraumaPlay(TM), the Executive Director of the TraumaPlay Institute, the Clinical Director of Nurture House, and author of Parents as Partners in Child Therapy: A Guide for Clinicians.

Lorri A. Yasenik, PhD, RPT-S, CPT-S, is the Director of Rocky Mountain Play Therapy Institute in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and the co-author of Play Therapy Dimensions Model: A Decision-Making Guide for Integrative Play Therapists.

1. How the Science of Relationships Impacts Our Thinking about Development: Interruptions, Happenings, and Expressions of Risk or Resilience 2. Listening Inside Our Bodies, Outside our Bodies, and Between Bodies: Interoception, Exteroception, and Setting Up a Polyvagal Informed Playroom 3. The Sounds of Safety in an Unsafe World: Recovering from Domestic Violence Through Polyvagal Informed Play Therapy 4. The Genius of the Disembodied Self: Coping with Childhood Sexual Abuse 5. Healing Attachment Ruptures with Safety and Connection through Play 6. Neurodivergencies: Incorporating Polyvagal Theory 7. Plagues, Pandemics, and the Polyvagal Theory in the Playroom 8. Reclaiming a Feeling of Safety in Natural Disasters: Preparatory and Advanced Interventions Using Play and Play Therapy 9. Polyvagal-Informed Practice to Support Children and Caregivers in War: Toward the Creation of a Huge and Reassuring Playroom 10. Anxiety, the Autonomic Nervous System and Play as Mechanisms of Change 11. Polyvagal Theory and Play Therapy with Children who Exhibit Aggression 12. Helping Depressed, Dissociative, and Withdrawn Children: Integrating Holistic Expressive Play Therapy and Polyvagal Theory 13. Nature and Play as Polyvagal Partners in Play Therapy 14. Child Centered Play Therapy: Person of the Therapist Presence, Neuroception of Safety, and Co-Regulation 15. Safety in Sand and Symbols: Polyvagal Shifts in the Sand Tray 16. Expressive Arts Therapy as Polyvagal Play: Shifting States Towards Safety 17. Animal Assisted Play Therapy(TM) as a Polyvagal Process 18. Digital Play Therapy(TM): Harnessing the Felt Sense of Safety in the Digital Space