TLC presents

Dr. Eliana Gil

Play Therapy for Severe Psychological Trauma

Saturday, November 6, 2004
Holiday Inn • Southgate, MI

     Dr. Eliana Gil is the Coordinator of Abused Children's Treatment Services at Inova Keller Center in Fairfax, Virginia. She is also Director of the Starbright Training Institute for Child and Family Play Therapy, which provides comprehensive clinical training programs on the assessment and treatment of child abuse and neglect, as well as play therapy theories and application with children and families. Dr. Gil is a Registered Play Therapy Supervisor, a Registered Art Therapist, and a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who received her doctorate in family therapy from the California Graduate School of Family Psychology in San Rafael, California. She served on the Boards of Directors of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) and the National Resource Center on Child Sexual Abuse for several years and is currently on the Advisory Board of APSAC as well as Past President of the Association for Play Therapy. Dr. Gil is an adjunct faculty member at George Washington and Virginia Tech Universities where she teaches play and family therapy courses.
     Dr. Gil has written numerous materials on child abuse and related topics, including: Outgrowing the Pain: A Book for and About Adults Abused as Children; Treatment of Adult Zurvivors of Childhood Abuse: United We Stand: A Book for Individuals with Multiple Personalities; The Healing Power of Play: Therapy with Abused Children; and Play in family therapy. Her most recent books are Treating Abused Adolescents and Systemic Treatment of Families who Abuse. Dr. Gil's use of play therapy with abused and traumatized children was recently featured in two videotapes released by Guilford Press. She is a well-known lecturer, author, and clinician and has been a frequent guest on local and national TV and radio shows. She is bilingual and bicultural, originally from Guayaquil, Ecuador.