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Ann Beckley-Fores, LCSW

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, and she also works with adult survivors. She is certified in EMDR and is an EMDR Approved Consultant and Trainer and a faculty member of the Child Trauma Institute, as well as a Registered Play Therapist and Supervisor and Approved Provider of play therapy continuing education through the Association for Play Therapy. She provides consultation in person and remotely and provides training, both locally and internationally. Her primary interest is in the intersection of play therapy and EMDR and has published on this topic including as co-editor of the 2020 EMDR with Children in the Play Therapy Room: An Integrated Approach (2020), a chapter from which can be found here and the upcoming Oxford Handbook of EMDR.