Credit Available - See CEs/Contact Hours tab below.
Total Credits: 12.5 NYSED LMSW & LCSW CEs/Contact Hours, 12.5 NYSED LMHC CEs/Contact Hours, 12.5 NYSED LMFT CEs/Contact Hours, 12.5 NYSED LCAT CEs/Contact Hours, 12.5 NYSED PSY CEs/Contact Hours, 12.5 UB Online Trauma-Informed Clinical Foundation Certificate- elective course, 12.5 UB Trauma-Informed Care & Counseling Certificate- elective course, 12.5 UB Trauma-Informed Care & Counseling Certificate- skill intervention course, 12.5 ASWB ACE approved continuing education, 12.5 UBSW - NYS OASAS
In-person workshop.
Course Dates:
Mon., July 7, 2025 from 8:45 am to 4:00 pm
Tues., July 8, 2025 from 8:45 am to 4:00 pm
This course focuses on attachment wounds that occur in childhood and explain why our clients struggle in therapy. This course will offer interventions for use with adults and children to help repair the wounds.
Do you want to know why your adult clients struggle with?
Do you want to know why your child clients struggle with?
Learning Objectives:
Research: research on attachment and trauma on Google Scholar.
Target Audience: social workers, mental health practitioners, creative arts therapists, marriage and facility therapists, psychologists, and other interested individuals
Customer ServiceWe are happy to respond to any concerns or questions you may have. Please contact us at by email at sw-ce@buffalo.edu or by phone at 716-829-5841.
ADA Accommodations: If you require any support for your ADA needs in the United States, please contact us by email at least 3 weeks prior to the event by email at sw-ce@buffalo.edu or by phone at 716-829-5841.
Registration open until: 7/6/25
University at Buffalo School of Social Work, Office of Continuing Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0001. Continuing education contact hours: 12.5 Live In-Person
University at Buffalo School of Social Work, Office of Continuing Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0008. Continuing education contact hours: 12.5 Live In-Person
University at Buffalo School of Social Work, Office of Continuing Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0007. Continuing education contact hours: 12.5 Live In-Person
University at Buffalo School of Social Work, Office of Continuing Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists #CAT-0003. Continuing education contact hours: 12.5 Live In-Person
University at Buffalo School of Social Work, Office of Continuing Education is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0062. Continuing education contact hours: 12.5 Live In-Person
12.5 Hours
12.5 Hours
12.5 Hours
University at Buffalo School of Social Work, Office of Continuing Education, #1773, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University at Buffalo School of Social Work, Office of Continuing Education maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 02/23/2022 - 02/23/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 12.5 continuing education credits.
NYS OASAS Provider #0045: 12.5 hours for : CPP & CPS Initial Section 1; CASAC, CPP & CPS Renewal.
Annie Monaco, LCSW-R, RPT-S, is co-founder of Playful EMDR, an online hub for training and consultation in treating trauma-exposed children. Annie travels internationally and throughout the US providing specialty trainings on EMDR with children and teens and how to effectively treat attachment wounds and dissociative strategies and self-states. Annie has extensive experience with foster care, out of country adoptions, and at-risk teenagers and family therapy. Through the Child Trauma Institute & Trauma Institute, Annie is an EMDRIA approved trainer of EMDR and trainer of Progressive Counting and provides consultation to therapists and agencies.
Annie was a Director of Restorative Justice programs at a non-profit agency where she oversaw juvenile and adult offender programs for over 10 years. Presently her private practice includes a multitude of behaviors and issues including foster care, out of country adoptions, juvenile justice and dissociation. Annie is the co-editor and contributor of chapters for EMDR with Children in the Play Therapy Room, An Integrated Approach (2020) and contributing chapter for EMDR and Creative Arts Therapies (2022).
Email: monaco.training.center@gmail.com | Website: www.anniemonaco.com, www.playfulemdr.com
No partial credit is given for partial attendance.
In-Person Completion Requirements
In order to receive a certificate of completion for this course participants must complete the following.
Please note all requirements can be found in your UBCE21 portal.
- Sign in, stay for the entire training, and sign out. Participation in small group activities is required.
- After the training, complete the evaluation by clicking on the "Evaluation and Certificate" button for this course.
The certificate of completion will be immediately generated in your account upon completion of all course requirements. Certificates may be downloaded, printed, or left in your account.
Day 1: 8:45am-4:00pm
Attachment definition
Attachment wounds
Attachment Styles
Attachment Scales
Attachment History
Window of Tolerance
Day 2: 8:45am-4:00pm
Attachment Interventions
Mentalization Questions
Soothing and Grounding Interventions
Cancellation Policy:
Live (In-Person, Online, and Hybrid) Trainings
The cancellation and refund policy below applies to individual courses. If you purchased multiple courses at one time they may be subject to individual processing fees. Participants can make payment or refund inquiries by contacting the Office of Continuing Education by phone 716-829-5844 or by email at sw-ce@buffalo.edu. Standard business hours for the Office of Continuing Education are Monday – Friday 9:00am to 4:30pm. Any requests made outside of these days and times will default to the next business day.
Up to 3 CEs/Contact Hours
3.25 - 5.75 CEs/Contact Hours
6-11.75 CEs/Contact Hours
12 or more CEs/Contact Hours
Cancellation of Group Purchases
Cancellations of more than 5 staff members will incur the following additional fees:
More than 30 days in advance will incur an additional 5% fee.
Less than 30 days but more than 15 days in advance will incur an additional 10% fee.
Less than 15 days will incur an additional 20% fee.
Online Self-Study Training
Gift Cards
Gift cards can be used as payment toward future trainings. Gift cards never expire.
Loyalty Reward Points
Substitute Attendance
If a registered participant is unable to attend a training and would like another individual to attend in their place the Office of Continuing Education must be called or emailed at least one full business day before the training. Substitution decisions will be made on a case-by-case basis.
Check Refund
Any refund requests for a check payment may take up to 4 weeks to process.
UB Cancelled Trainings
Additional questions and support?
Please email sw-ce@buffalo.edu or call 716-829-5841.