Annie Monaco MSW, LCSW, RPT

Annie Monaco, LCSW, RPT is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in practice in Buffalo, NY, a Registered Play Therapist with the Association for Play Therapy and a faculty member of University at Buffalo School of Social Work. She is certified in EMDR therapy, an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, an EMDR therapy trainer and a faculty member of the Child Trauma Institute. Annie travels throughout the US and internationally providing a multitude of trauma-informed trainings and agency and therapist consultation. She has extensive training in complex trauma, family therapy, play therapy, restorative justice almost 30 years serving children, teens, families and adults. Her private practice includes a multitude of behaviors and issues including foster care, out of country adoptions, juvenile justice and dissociation and is co-editor of EMDR with Children in the Play Therapy Room: An Integrated Approach.