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Erin Hassall is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Registered Play Therapy Supervisor working in a school setting running the Spencerport Central School District Family Support Center and has a small private practice. Her specialties include child and adolescent mental health, attachment, complex trauma, and dissociation. She is a certified EMDR therapist and EMDR Consultant. She integrates EMDR with play therapy and is intensively trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotional Freedom Technique, and a provider for Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions. She completed the Trauma-Informed Care and Counseling Certificate Program and EMDR-Sandtray Specialist Certificate Program.

Ann Beckley-Forest, LCSW, RPT-S, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice in Buffalo, New York, and co-founder of Playful EMDR, an online hub for training and consultation in treating trauma-exposed children. She is an EMDR Approved Consultant and Trainer and a faculty member of the Child Trauma Institute, as well as a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor and Approved Provider of play therapy continuing education. Her primary interest is in the intersection of play therapy and EMDR including as contributor and co-editor of EMDR with Children in the Play Therapy Room: An Integrated Approach (2020).