06/06/2025
ARRIVED!!!
I just received my book, EMDR-Sandtray Based Therapy: Healing Complex Trauma and Dissociation Across the Lifespan. I am now in tears as I hold this creation in my hands, a book that carries close to 25 years of weaving these two powerful approaches together. It captures the wisdom of symbols and the evocative power of sandtray work, merging them with the depth and potency of EMDR therapy.
This book brings the sand tray as a vortex of possibilities for the client’s story to emerge and make contact with consciousness so the client — of any age — can reorganize, re-envision and re-meaning the relationship with their life story, their inner world, and themselves. The characters become avatars, vessels of the embodied mind, giving expression to what might otherwise be overwhelming to verbalize.
With 425 pages, this book offers a comprehensive and multimodal approach to EMDR-sandtray therapy, specifically with complex trauma and dissociation in clients of all ages and levels of development. It is filled with clinical examples, suggested language, and a wealth of reflections that invite clinicians to attune to the client through reflective communication and gentle curiosity. It guides the reader in how to hold space for implicit and explicit stories to be told and witnessed, and how to bring together the strength and depth of the sand and the miniature collection with the transformative potential of EMDR.
Thanks to Marshall Lyles for an amazing foreword, and to Eliana Gil, Linda Homeyer, Debbie Korn, and Marilyn Luber for your thoughtful blurbs that honor this work. I will be sharing my gratitude in the upcoming days for all those who mentored me, supported me, and contributed to my growth. Thanks to Norton, a truly amazing publishing company!
May this book find its way into the hands of clinicians who seek to support healing in what has long been unspoken and to give voice to what has been silent for far too long.
The book will be in all stores on August 12, but Norton already has it in the warehouse — you may get your copy even faster.
HOW TO GET THE BOOK:
US-based customers can use this link for 20% OFF and free shipping
o https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324053651?promo=GOMEZ20
• If you are based in the UK, Ireland, Europe, the Middle East, India, Pakistan and South Africa please use the following for 30% discount when books are ordered through the Norton UK site.
o The discount code is WN241
o The link to the site is https://wwnorton.co.uk/books/9781324053651-emdr-sandtray-based-therapy
o Please click the link and add the code WN241 when prompted at the checkout. You will need to add the code during the checkout process in order to receive the discount.
I will send information soon for SouthAmerica!!
