Paris Goodyear-Brown, LCSW, RPT-S, the founder and director of Nurture House, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor with 20 years of experience in treating families in need. While she specializes in treating trauma (sexual abuse, physical abuse, maltreatment and neglect) and attachment disturbances, she often provides help for anxious, angry or depressed children and teens. A child development expert, she frequently provides parent consultation, dyadic assessment and parent coaching to help parents manage and resolve their children’s behavior problems. Her newest books include Tackling Touchy Subjects, the Handbook of Child Sexual Abuse: Identification, Assessment, and Treatment, Play Therapy with Traumatized Children: A Prescriptive Approach and The Worry Wars: An Anxiety Workbook for Kids and their Helpful Adults. More information about Paris at nurturehouse.org.
Scott Riviere, MS, LPC, RPT-S, is a Licensed Professional Counselor and one of the first Registered Play Therapist-Supervisors in Louisiana. He is the Director of K.I.D.Z., Inc., Louisiana's first Play Therapy Institute, where his practice is limited exclusively to children and adolescents, ages 2-18 and their families. Scott has over 25 years’ experience dealing with such issues as grief and trauma, anxiety disorders, ADHD, behavioral problems, attachment disorders, and Autism Spectrum disorders. More information about Scott at scottriviere.com.
Janine Shelby, PhD, RPT-S is a licensed psychologist who provides training, therapy, forensic assessment and international disaster consultation to survivors and those who work with survivors. She has provided hundreds of seminars to audiences throughout North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. Dr. Shelby is a board-certified expert in traumatic stress who is a clinical instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA, founded the Child Trauma Clinic at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, is the former clinical director of the Rape Treatment Center at Santa Monica -UCLA Medical Center and past president of the California Association for Play Therapy.