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ABOUT THE TRAINERS
All Theraplay Institute trainers have completed a rigorous training program to become Certified Theraplay Trainers.
United States
Phyllis Booth, MA, LMFT, LCPC, RPT/S is Clinical Director of The Theraplay Institute. She worked with Dr. Ann Jernberg in developing the Theraplay method. She authored the third edition of Theraplay: Helping Parents and Children Build Better Relationships Through Attachment-Based Play, which will be available in the fall of 2009, and is the author of numerous articles about Theraplay. She has also conducted training throughout the United States, Canada, England, Finland, and South Korea.
Sandra Lindaman,MA, MSW, LCSW is Senior Training Advisor to The Theraplay Institute. She is trained as a social worker and speech language pathologist. She has worked at The Theraplay Institute since 1990, in clinical and administrative positions, and was trained in Theraplay by Ann Jernberg and Phyllis Booth. She has written a number of book chapters and articles about Theraplay, in particular for children who are in foster care or have been adopted, and has conducted training across the United States and in Canada, England, Finland, Japan, South Korea and Sweden.
Dafna Lender, MSW, LCSW, is Training Director for The Theraplay Institute. Her focus is on helping children develop a secure attachment with their caregivers while resolving issues in their traumatic history. She has studied Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy with Daniel Hughes and uses it in combination with Theraplay. She has worked with children in foster care and group homes within the child welfare system, as well as children adopted from foreign orphanages and children who were prenatally exposed to alcohol and drugs. She has published articles about Theraplay and DDP. She has provided Theraplay training throughout the United States, England, Israel and Spain.
Jessica Mroz Miller, LCSW, is Practicum Manager for The Theraplay Institute and maintains a private practice in the Chicago area. Her primary interest is in helping families with children who have attachment and trauma-related difficulties. She has studied Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy with Daniel Hughes which she uses in combination with Theraplay. She has worked with children in foster care and group homes within the child welfare system as well as children adopted internationally and with children who were prenatally exposed to alcohol and drugs. She has published articles about Theraplay and DDP. She has provided Theraplay training throughout the United States and England.
Phyllis B. Rubin, CCC-SLP, Psy.D, is a licensed clinical psychologist and speech-language pathologist, and a Certified Group Theraplay Trainer, and is credentialed with the Illinois Early Intervention Program. She is the co-author of Play With Them: Theraplay Groups in the Classroom. She maintains a private practice in Oak Park, Illinois, and has used Theraplay with children and parents for over 25 years in public school special education classrooms, Head Start, and with her private clients. She has done training throughout the U.S., Australia, England and Sweden.
Karen Doyle Buckwalter, MSW, LCSW, is Director of Treatment Services for Chaddock, Quincy, Illinois, where she has worked with severely traumatized and emotionally disturbed children and adolescents in both out-patient and residential programs. She has conducted trainings throughout the United States and in England, and has presented at numerous conferences.
Susan Bundy-Myrow, PhD, is a psychologist in private practice and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry, State University of New York at Buffalo. She has included Theraplay in her work for more than twenty years, and is particularly interested in family and group Theraplay for children with developmental disabilities. Her writing has focused on Theraplay for children with autistic spectrum disorders and children with self-regulation problems. She has conducted training in the United States, Canada, England, Finland, Ireland and South Korea.
Jean Crume, MSW, LCSW, maintains a private practice in Little Rock, Arkansas, where she has worked with children in foster care and adoptions for over 15 years. She has conducted trainings throughout the United States, Australia and England.
Mary Alice DaCosse, MS, is an elementary school teacher who conducts group Theraplay with children from early childhood to fifth grade, including special education groups and a family group. She is a Certified Group Theraplay® Specialist and Trainer. She contributed a chapter to Play With Them: Theraplay in the Classroom, by Rubin and Tregay.
Bill Fuller, MSW, LCSW, is in private practice in Little Rock, Arkansas. He has been active in Theraplay since 1993. His publications include articles in The Theraplay Institute Newsletter as well as a case study in Continuum describing the use of Theraplay with a child with autism. He has used Theraplay as core material for a Masters level Child Behavior course at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He has conducted training in the United States and England.
Carol Josefson, M.A, LCPC, is a therapist with Catholic Charities in Decatur, IL where she works in the Therapeutic Services Department doing individual, couple, and family therapy. She obtained her B.S. in Nursing and worked for fifteen years as a school nurse in a public high school in Decatur. Carol went on to obtain her M.A in Clinical Psychology in 1998.
Paula Mercer, MSW, LCSW is a therapeutic foster/adoptive parent who uses Theraplay daily in her work with her, currently, four children. Since 1995, she has used Theraplay in preschool and day treatment settings as well as with adoptive and foster children. She has been a therapist for Treatment Homes, Inc., and Director of a therapeutic foster care program in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
David L. Myrow, PhD, is a psychologist in private practice and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry, State University of New York at Buffalo. Dave has been involved with Theraplay since its inception in the 1960’s, and has conducted training in the US, Canada, England, Finland and Ireland. He has written about the attachment fostering aspects of Theraplay and edited the Theraplay newsletter.
Margery L. Rieff, PhD, LCPC, RPT/S, is a psychological and educational consultant and former Clinical Coordinator for The Theraplay Institute. Her specialty is early intervention and young children with developmental disabilities. She has developed two Theraplay training videos: Stretching the Umbilical Cord: Using Theraplay to Reduce Separation Reactions in Developmentally-Disabled Toddlers and Theraplay with an Angry, Controlling Child. Rieff is a frequent contributor to the Theraplay newsletter, and has conducted training across the United States and England.
Mary Ring, MAMFC, LPC-S, LMFT-S, RPT-S is a marriage and family therapist at Houston’s First Baptist Church Counseling Center in Houston, Texas. She has worked extensively in Latvia, teaching Theraplay for use in orphanages and schools there, and most recently taught about Theraplay in South Africa. She has done training throughout the U.S. and England.
Michelle Robison, MSW, LCSW, is Associate Director of Clinical Services at Chaddock, Quincy, IL, in their residential treatment program for adolescents with trauma and attachment-based problems. She is a contributor to Creating Capacity for Attachment.
Charles West, MS, is a founding member of The Theraplay Institute’s Board of Directors and a practicing Theraplay Therapist for more than 29 years. He worked closely with Ann Jernberg and Phyllis Booth during the early years of Theraplay, and created a number of the first films used in TTI’s training programs. He has conducted training across the Midwest and continues to use Theraplay principles in his work with the Chicago Head Start Program, where Theraplay began more than 35 years ago.
Marlo Winstead, MSW, LCSW, RPT, is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Kansas. She has more than eight years experience working with children, adolescents and families in a range of settings and environments. I Initially trained in Non-Directive Play Therapy, she is also skilled in Directive Play Therapy techniques such as Theraplay, Sandtray therapy, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy and Filial therapy. Marlo also uses Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) to assist clients in the resolution of trauma.
Canada
Heather Lawrence, MSW, RSW, is an Integrated Clinical Services Worker at Blue Hills Child and Family Center, Ontario, Canada, and an approved First Nations service provider. She has provided training throughout Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Evangeline Munns, PhD, C Psych, RPT/S, is the former Clinical Director of play therapy services at Blue Hills Child and Family Services in Aurora, Ontario, Canada. She is the editor of the book, Theraplay: Innovations in Attachment-Enhancing Play Therapy, and has written numerous articles and presented workshops throughout Canada, the US and England.
Lorie Walton, MEd, is in private practice in Ontario, Canada, and a contract therapist for the York Region Abuse Program.
Joan Wilson, M.Ed., has over two decades of experience working with children, adolescents, and their families. In her private practice and as a team leader with a children's mental health agency, Joan focuses her efforts on attachment and trauma work using Theraplay and DDP.
Finland
Lotta Lassenius-Panula, MD, is a child psychiatrist in Helsinki, Finland, where she also serves on the board of The Finnish Theraplay Association.
Jukka Mäkelä, MD, is a child psychiatrist in Helsinki, Finland, and Development Manager, Section for Children, Adolescents and Families for the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare. He is the chair of the Finnish Theraplay Association, a Theraplay researcher and author of numerous articles about Theraplay.
Saara Salo, Ph.D., is a developmental psychologist in Helsinki, Finland.
Sinikka Savola, is a Group Theraplay Trainer and special education teacher who has brought Theraplay to Botswana and Tanzania to work with AIDS orphans and children with developmental delays.
Ilona Vierikko, RN, is with SOS Children’s Villages in Finland, who has worked extensively with training support workers for AIDS orphans and their families in Botswana.
Germany
Ulrike Franke, SLP, RPT/S is a speech-language pathologist in Heidelberg, Germany, where she uses Theraplay with language and behavior disordered children. She translated the first edition of the Theraplay book into German, wrote about the Marschak Interaction Method, and has published a number of articles. Since 1995, she has been the editor of a journal about Theraplay. She has conducted Theraplay training throughout the German-speaking world.
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