Paperback, 2008

Description

A valuable resource for trained EMDR therapists. Butterfly Hug educates and familiarizes children in therapy (and their parents) with the EMDR process prior to actual use of the protocol. Butterfly Hug gives both the history of the approach as well as sharing an inviting story line from a child's own healing experience with EMDR.

Reviews

"Research tells us that children are motivated by others like them who have faced and overcome similar challenges. In Butterfly Hug, a child tells her own story of hurt and then healing with EMDR, in child-friendly detail. The story is generic enough for others to be able to identify with the character, and specific enought to be credible. The artwork is excellent and support the story line. This book will inspire child clients to go through the steps and do their own work."

Ricky Greenwald, PsyD
Founder and Director, Child Trauma Institute
Author of EMDR in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy

Yet another helpful resource for clinicians! This book is so easy to understand and use. Written to use with children who are suffering, both the pictures and words of this book are comforting. It will help clinicians utilizing EMDR with the most difficult part of the work: explaining to our clients what it is!

Jennifer T. Fritzler, LCSW

Butterfly Hug explians the EMDR process in a way that is easily understood by a child, while still capturing its essence. Its simple, direct language and compelling artwork reassure and encourage young clients to begin their healing journey, while providing a place for the adults who care about them to join and support them.

Arlene Barry, Ph. D
Clinical Psychologist

Butterfly Hug is a great book for children to understand the EMDR process. I highly recommend Butterfly Hug for experienced and beginning EMDR therapists. IT'S VERY HELPFUL!!

Doreen Hills, LPC, LMHC, CCJS
EMDR Trained Therapist

About the Author

Karin Gertner is a licensed professional counselor working in private practice for the past 13 years. She has worked with children in the role of teacher, school counselor and therapist. She has also published several therapeutic children's games for use in educational and counseling settings. This is however her first book.

Karin is trained in the EMDR process and fequently utilizes her expertise in this approach with both children and adults. It is her goal that through this book, children will become more comfortable with the EMDR process and therefore reap the greatest benefit of ther own individual treatment.

She and her husband Bill live in northeastern colorado with their three boys, Josef, Nathanael and Jonathan.