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 been honored to present educational programs for:
-        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.

 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.

Playing to learn (In Process)