Affiliations
Fairfield County Trauma Response Team
Association for Play Therapy, Inc. Founding president, CT Chapter
EMDR International Association
Clinical Social Work Association
National Association of Social Workers
Louise M Tonning LCSW En Español
About Me
As a social worker, my practice as a psychotherapist means that I consider each client not just someone with emotional problems, but someone who has a job, a family, a neighborhood, responsibilities, struggles, hopes and dreams: all of which affect our physical and mental health.
My post graduate training includes but is not limited to:
- Post Graduate Certificate, Child & Adolescent Therapy, Fordham University
- Registered Play Therapist & Supervisor, Association for Play Therapy, Inc.
- Post Graduate Certificate, Field Instruction, Fordham University
- Graduate, Non-profit Leaders Program, Fordham University
- Traumatic Stress Studies, The Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute
- Certified EMDR Therapist, EMDR International Association
- EMDR Recent Traumatic Episode Protocol (R-TEP)
- EMDR Child Specialist, Agate Institute
- EMDR Parent-Child & Attachment Specialist, Agate Institute
I love learning & teaching and have been honored to present educational programs at:
- Western Connecticut State University
- Archdiocese of New York
- Connecticut Association for Play Therapy
- New York Association for Play Therapy
- Family Center of Greenwich, CT
- Family Centers of Greenwich, Stamford, Darien and New Canaan, CT
As Consulting Editor of the journal Social Work, I conduct editorial peer review of articles submitted for publication with a recommendation to publish or not.
My Publications:
Tonning Louise M. (1999). Persistent and chronic neglect in the context of poverty: When parents can’t parent in Nancy Boyd Webb (Ed.) Play Therapy with Children in Crisis: A Casebook for Practitioners. Second Edition. New York: The Guilford Press.
Van Dyk, Alison and Tonning, Louise (2002) Report From the Front Lines: Two play therapists share their crisis intervention work with pre-school through eighth grade after 9-11. East Coast Sandplay Journal, July. 33-45.