Therapeutic + Applied Geek + Gaming Summit
A Geek Therapy® Event
Until TAGGS 2025
TAGGS 5 is April 3-6, 2025! TAGGS 4 was held April 19-21, 2024.
Our theme for 2025 is NEXT GEN: Building a New Era! In our fifth year, we're celebrating the TAGG field's history and setting up the next generations to take us into a new era of therapeutic and applied Geek and Gaming!
100% remote, hosted entirely on this website.
TAGGS is a professional conference for helping professionals who use Geek and Gaming media and culture in their work.
We welcome all paraprofessionals, educators, practitioners, students, game designers, and content creators to share your expertise, learn from each other, and let your Geek flag fly.
Purchase a Media and/or Vault Pass to watch recordings of past events.
Grab a Media Pass to watch TAGGS 4 or a FREE Vault Pass to watch prior years' presentations.
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TAGGS 2025 Schedule
2025/04/03
2025/04/04
What My Cutie Mark is Telling Me: An ACT Exploration of Values through My Little Pony
Catherine Richardson MPGS (she/her)
Anime and Youth: Understanding its Impact on Adolescent Perceptions of Sexual Behavior
Jermaine Wall LICSW-S
Supporting Mental Health & Personal Safety in Streamers & Content Creators
Michael Keady & Victori Harvey SSW
Return of the Therapist-Psychiatrist Alliance! Use psychotherapy force powers when discussing medications in psychotherapy to enhance patient engagement in psychiatric treatment.
Dr. Stacy Greeter
2025/04/05
Surviving the Nightmare: Supporting Black Healing Through Horror's Next Era
Dr Mercedes Samudio LCSW (She/Her)
From D&D to Human Development: Diverse Applications of Tabletop Role-Playing Games in Therapy, Education, and Leadership
Ryan Alan Jones, Dr. Maryanne Cullinan PhD, Megan Connell PsyD, ABPP & Joe Lasley PhD
NEXT GEN: Building a New Era (Keynote)
Dr. Brian Quinones Ed D, LPC, ACS (he/him) & Timothy Grant Sr. (He, Him)
Interview with a Vampire: The Case and Conceptualization of Louis de Pointe du Lac
Taylor Roberts & Noelle Filoteo Young
God Of War and Loss: Kratos and the Hero’s Journey Through Grief
Victoria Rodriguez PhD, LPC, NCC (she/her) & Andrew Amaya-Shaw (he/him/his)
Walking the Witches’ Road: Using Agatha’s Journey as a Metaphor for Exposure Therapy and Grieving Loss
Benjamin Taitz Psy.D., Brent Lyles LMHC & Dr. Yonatan Sobin PsyD (he/him/they)
2025/04/06
The Positive Power of Parasocial Relationships: Creating Interventions People Can Love
Lucy Stevens, Melinda Layden M.Ed. & Dr. Lucas Harrington
Battling Burnout through Professional Identity Formation in the Galaxy of Therapy
Madison (Madi) Duran
Reflect, Reframe, Respawn: The Importance of Immersion in Virtual Social Coaching
Kaitlyn Niederstadt, Kristy Allen MFA & Devon Youngbird B.A.
The Cards Don't Lie: Tarot as a Therapeutic Tool
Daniel Hand & Erika Walker LSCSW, LCSW, LICSW, RPT-S, CAdPT-A (she/her/hers)
Tabletop Gaming as Outreach: Big Successes, Critical Fails, and Learning from Both
William Nation PhD (he/him) & Meagan Henry
Navigating Social Media as Geek and a Mental Health Professional
Dr. Elizabeth Sánchez Arvizu
Creating a TTRPG World with Theraputic Purpose: Live!
William Nation PhD (he/him) & Christopher Agnew
