“How Can I Get Out of Here?” Bringing EMDR to Children, Families and Professionals

How can I get out of here? is an illustrated album written by Cristina Cortés, therapist psychologist, specialized in Children and Adolescents and director of the Vitaliza psychology center, located in Pamplona. The book has been published by the publishing house Desclée de Brouwer. This is an ambitious project that seeks to explain to children and families how EMDR is used in children, in an enjoyable and simple way.

Thus, becomes a valid therapeutic material for professionals in the world of psychology

Explaining the use of EMDR in the child population

How can I get out of here? It allows us to understand, through the use of metaphorical and simple language, what we are looking for in the intervention with EMDR therapy. This therapy seeks, in the same way as with any other type of psychological intervention, to be able to leave the past behind and get on with our lives in a healthy way

It also invites families to be aware of the important role they have in their children’s therapeutic processes, when they have been overcome by life experiences. How they are creators of their children’s emotional resources.

Through the analogy of the emotional garden It is described how parents have a primary role in regulating emotions.

Illustrations are also included, which are available to be downloaded from the publisher with the aim of making it easier for other psychology professionals to make family dynamics of emotion identification through play and fun.

How can I get out of here?: a book that takes care of the details

The book How can I get out of here? It has been illustrated with sublime beauty. The images are evocative, and loaded with details that support the message of the book in a subtle and intuitive way.

Cristina Cortés combines clinical practice with dissemination, being the author of publications such as Look at me, feel me. Strategies for attachment repair in children using EMDR, a book with a prologue by Stephen W. Porges that is now in its third edition. His extensive experience and career in EMDR have led him to promote an editorial line specialized in children’s EMDR for bring this therapy and its benefits closer to society