Registered Social Worker, Trauma and Play Therapist
Private Practice
Cambridge, ON, Canada
Billie-Jo Bennett, MSW RSW CPT, is a Registered Social Worker, Trauma and Attachment Therapist, as well as a Certified Play Therapist with the Canadian Association for Play therapy (CAPT), in Private Practice in Cambridge Ontario, Canada. She graduated with her Master of Social work degree from Wilfrid Laurier University in 2017. Billie-Jo has worked with complex trauma and dissociation in various capacities over the span of her career, including twenty years in child welfare settings prior to her transition into clinical private practice.
Billie-Jo is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and Supervisor in training through CAPT. She is an integrative EMDR therapist who uses the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model as her guide while incorporating various modalities including Play therapy, Theraplay, Sandtray Therapy, and Neurofeedback with children, adolescents and adults. Additionally, she is a registered Circle of Security facilitator, and has extensive experience with providing parent support for children in adoptive and foster care settings. Billie-Jo has trained with Ana Gomez (AGATE) intensively on several occasions, and is currently completing the ISSTDās Professional Training Program. Within ISSTD, she volunteers as the current ISSTD Child and Adolescent Special Interest group secretary, and current ISSTD EMDR Special Interest Group secretary elect.
Billie-Jo is passionate about the healing power of play and the integration of play therapy with Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy, and cultivates this with her practicum students and consultees in her private practice. Billie-Jo is also very passionate about advancing awareness of dissociation and dissociative disorders in the community where she works, with local agencies and with her consultees.
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Saturday, October 22, 2022
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM US Eastern Time