We’ve responded to your feedback: We are bringing you a new version of Trauma-Resposive Play with even more activities and skills that you can introduce directly into your practice or parenting.

This training will build on the known impacts of trauma to help you reach and engage children, facilitate healing, and stimulate healthier, more responsive relationships between parents and kids after adversity. It will offer the structure and skill professionals and parents need to understand and leverage playful moments to enhance secure bonding, build emotion regulation, and increase our ability to manage children’s stress responses calmly and effectively.

After this highly interactive training, you’ll walk away with a deeper understanding of how play-based supports for trauma in early and middle childhood can provide a second language of play – which is really the child’s first language – through which they can express, work on, and release traumatized patterns and strengthen their most important caregiving relationships.

Join us to learn key strategies for balancing a child’s stress response system so they can look to the future feeling more capable, worthy, and secure in themselves and the key figures in their life.

Topics covered:

• The science of stress and the healing properties of play
• Insights from research on play therapy and trauma-informed care
• How playful practice can become a “way of being” with children
• Strategies to rebuild and rewire safety and connection
• Self-regulation strategies for children and adults

Details

Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2026 | 9am-12:30pm PST
Cost: $85; $70 early bird (before 02/25/26)
Location: Live training via Zoom. Zoom link and extra details will be sent out a week prior to the training date.
Continuing Education: 3 CE credits are available for an additional $30. For more information visit our continuing education page.

Additional Information

Cancellation fees may apply; be sure to review our refund policies here.

For questions about this training, please contact us at training@echotraining.org or (213) 484-6676

Georgie Wisen-Vincent,  LMFT RPT-S is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Registered Play Therapist Supervisor. She is the founder of the PlayLA Los Angeles Center for Play Therapy, a training organization for parents and professionals. Georgie is a lecturer and supervisor of graduate level play therapists at the Loma Linda University Play Therapy Certificate Program. She also maintains a private practice at The Center for Connection in Pasadena, California, a multidisciplinary practice informed by the framework of Interpersonal Neurobiology, headed by Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, co-author with Daniel Siegel, MD, of the groundbreaking parenting series “The Whole Brain Child”, “No Drama Discipline”, and “The Yes Brain”. Georgie earned her MA MFT from Chapman University and Masters in Child-Centered Play Therapy from the University of Roehampton London. She is a member of the British Association of Play Therapists and the American Association for Play Therapy.