PARIS GOODYEAR-BROWN
LCSW, RPT-S

         Paris Goodyear-Brown, LCSW, RPT-S is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a Registered Play Therapist-Supervisor with specialized training in work with children, adolescents and their families. She received her undergraduate degree from Duke University and received her MSSW from the University of Tennessee. She pioneered the first play therapy program for the Therapeutic Preschool at Dede Wallace Center before joining Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Child and Adolescent Pyschiatric Outpatient Clinic where she worked in both the outpatient setting and the school based program. She currently sees children of all ages in private practice and serves as adjunct faculty for graduate programs at the University of Tennessee, Vanderbilt University, and Trevecca Nazarene University. Paris has an international reputation as a dynamic and original speaker. She provides supervision, organization consultation and training on many topics related to child treatment. She is the author of Gabby the Gecko, a new bibliotherapy material aimed at helping children disclose and heal from traumatizing experiences. She has also authored a book entitled "Digging for Buried Treasure: 52 Prop-Based Play Therapy Interventions for Treating the Problems of Childhood and co-authored an original DVD, 10 Peas in a Pod, a resource that helps clinicians immediately replicate empirically informed prescriptive play therapy strategies"