- Demonstrate four play therapy areas of developmental derailment that can lead to dysregulation.
- Apply five play therapy interventions for enhancing the quality of attachment in parent/child dyads to your current caseload.
- Identify three play therapy metaphors to enhance psychoeducation related to our stress response systems to clients.
- Employ five play therapy interventions for identifying and shifting cognitive distortions.
- Utilize five play therapy-based clinical strategies for working with impulse control and anger management.
- Utilize five play therapy interventions for increasing self-regulation.
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FREE Live Online Training
Big Behaviors in Small Containers
50 Trauma-informed Play Therapy Interventions for Disorders of Dysregulation
February 23, 2026 from 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Central
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What You’ll Gain in This FREE Workshop:
✔️ 50+ Play Therapy Interventions
From the Still-the-Struggle Socks to Safe Place Sandtray, you’ll get creative, engaging tools that make emotional healing accessible—even for your most dysregulated clients.
✔️ Attachment-Based Strategies for Parent Involvement
Learn how to shift caregiver roles from behavior enforcers to co-regulators using activities like Airplane Love Notes, Parent Prizes, and Comfort Creatures.
✔️ Neurobiologically-Informed Techniques That Actually Work
Get brain-based tools that support regulation, integration, and resilience—tailored to the child’s developmental stage and emotional capacity.
✔️ A TraumaPlay®-Informed Framework
Master a flexible, compassionate model that incorporates somatic, cognitive, and relational components of dysregulation and healing.
✔️ Practical Tools for Real-Life Challenges
Whether you're working with anger, anxiety, impulse control, or trauma stories, you’ll walk away with interventions you can use in your next session.
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FREE Live Online Training
Big Behaviors in Small Containers
50 Trauma-informed Play Therapy Interventions for Disorders of Dysregulation
February 23, 2026 from 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Central
Can't attend live? Register anyway for 14-day FREE ACCESS to the training!
*After you register, upgrade to receive up to 6.25 CE hours and a copy of Big Behaviors in Small Containers - Paris' bestselling book!
Live Training Outline
Developmental Areas of Dysregulation in the Play Room
- Physiological/Somatic
- Emotional
- Cognitive
- Relational/Attachment Ruptures
- Introduction to key components of TraumaPlay®
- Cultural Biases, Risks, and Limitations of play therapy
Bottom-Up Brain Developmental and the power of Cross-Hemispheric Work
- Regulation
- Connection
- Learning
- Left Hemisphere Linguistics/Right Hemisphere Ways of Knowing
- Roles of the TraumaPlay® therapist
The Role of Parents as Partners in CoRegulation
- Reflecting on Attachment Styles/Creating Paradigm Shifts
- Sharing the SOOTHE Strategies
PLAY THERAPY INTERVENTIONS
Enhancing Safety and Augmenting Adaptive Coping
- The Coping Tree
- Cope Cakes
- Coping Menu
- Crowning Community
- Safe Place Sandtray
Enhancing Attachment
- Airplane Love Notes
- Love Links
- Stick Together Bookmarks
- Love Connectors
- Comfort Creatures
- Rupture and Repair
- Superhero Dyads
Understanding Our Stress Response System
- WOT R You Doing?
- Who is Amy G. Dala?
- What is Amy G. Saying Now?/Soothing Amy G.
- Head of a Pin
- The PolyVagal Zoo
- Sleuth the Sloth
- Farmers and the Fainting Goat
Enhancing Self-Regulation
- Hum Bugs
- Still-the-Struggle Socks
- Zip-but Don’t Flip
- A Mindful Meal
- Finessing the Feel
- Yoga Tunes
Impulse Control and Anger Management
- Troubling Task Timer
- Count the Cost
- Anger Buttons/Who Is Pressing Your Buttons
- Under the Eruption
- Alibaba and His Bucking Camel
- Are You Ready for the Boom
Emotional Literacy
- Color Your Heart
- Mood Manicure
- Feelings Soup
- Sands of Time
Addressing Cognitive Distortions
- Inner Critic/Inner Kindness
- Lose the Bruise
- Pick It Up or Lay It Down
- The Recycler and the Shredder
- Rigid Rob/Flexible Fred
- The Mistake Snake
Storykeeping: Holding Hard Stories and Building Coherent Narratives
- Puzzles with Parents
- Excavating Hard Things
- Secret Book Safes
- Sand in My Eyes/Google Eye Hop
- Walk It Through
Making a Meaningful Goodbye
- Graduation Caps
- Treatment Takeaways
- Family Flowerpot
- Parent Prizes/Love Letters for Later
FREE Live Online Training
Big Behaviors in Small Containers
50 Trauma-informed Play Therapy Interventions for Disorders of Dysregulation
February 23, 2026 from 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Central
Can't attend live? Register anyway for 14-day FREE ACCESS to the training!
*After you register, upgrade to receive up to 6.25 CE hours and a copy of Big Behaviors in Small Containers - Paris' bestselling book!
Meet Your Presenter
Paris Goodyear-Brown, MSSW, LCSW, RPT-S™
Paris Goodyear-Brown, MSSW, LCSW, RPT-S™, and approved EMDR consultant, is the creator of TraumaPlay™, the executive director of the TraumaPlay Institute, the clinical director of Nurture House, and an adjunct instructor of psychiatric mental health at Vanderbilt University. She is a Ted Talk speaker, a master clinician, a thought leader in the fields of child trauma and play therapy globally, has received the APT award for Play Therapy Promotion and Education, and served as the executive director of the Lipscomb Play Therapy and Expressive Arts Center. She is on the board of TNAPT and has written over twenty chapters and articles as well as twelve books, including Trauma and Play Therapy, Parents as Partners in Child Therapy, Big Behaviors in Small Containers, and her newest edited volume Polyvagal Power in the Playroom. Paris delights in serving traumatized children and families locally, loves to travel with her family, and finds great joy in equipping child trauma therapists all over the world.
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✔ AND Big Behaviors in Small Containers book
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✔ AND Big Behaviors in Small Containers book
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About Big Behaviors in Small Containers
131 Trauma-Informed Play Therapy Interventions for Disorders of Dysregulation
131 Trauma-Informed Play Therapy Interventions for Disorders of Dysregulation
A $42.99 value, included with your CE upgrade purchase
Big Behaviors in Small Containers is the perfect companion to this training—something you can take with you to extend the learning long after the course ends.
Inside, you’ll find 131 practical, creative, play-based interventions that help shift the focus from stopping behaviors to understanding the underlying emotional needs driving them. Rooted in TraumaPlay®, these strategies emphasize attachment, co-regulation, and the stress response system—giving you tools to support kids through tantrums, defiance, self-injury, withdrawal, and more.
Whether you’re a therapist, teacher, or caregiver, this resource will help you become the steady, nurturing presence kids need when their “small container” feels too full of big emotions.
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FREE Live Online Training
Big Behaviors in Small Containers
50 Trauma-informed Play Therapy Interventions for Disorders of Dysregulation
February 23, 2026 from 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM Central
Can't attend live? Register anyway for 14-day FREE ACCESS to the training!
*After you register, upgrade to receive up to 6.25 CE hours and a copy of Big Behaviors in Small Containers - Paris' bestselling book!
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