Paris Goodyear-Brown, LCSW, RPT-S

Nurture House

Paris Goodyear-Brown, LCSW, RPT-S, certified EMDR therapist, is the creator of TraumaPlay®, a flexibly sequential play therapy model for treating trauma and attachment disturbances in family systems. She is the founder of the TraumaPlay Institute, the Clinical Director of Nurture House, an Adjunct Instructor of Psych iatric Mental Health at Vanderbilt University, and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant. Paris has an international reputation as a dynamic and compassionate speaker. She is a sought-after supervisor, a master clinician, and a prolific author. As a thought leader in the fields of child trauma and play therapy she has received the APT award for Play Therapy Promotion and Education, given a Ted Talk on Trauma and Play Therapy and served as the Executive Director of the Lipscomb Play Therapy and Expressive Arts Center. She is on the board of TNAPT and is the author of multiple chapters and articles including Play Therapy with Traumatized Children and Partners in Child Therapy: Clinician’s Guide. Her twelfth book, Big Behaviors in Small Containers is hot off the press! Paris finds great joy in training clinicians all over the world in helping children and their families speak the unspeakable.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Paris Goodyear-Brown maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Vanderbilt University, TraumaPlay Institute, and Nurture House. She receives compensation as a consultant and receives royalties as a published author. Paris Goodyear-Brown receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Paris Goodyear-Brown serves on the Registration and Continuing Education Committee for the Association for Play Therapy and is an Ethics Committee member for the Association for Play Therapy.