EMDR Sandtray Therapy with Ana Gómez

Ana M Gómez, MC, LPC, is the founder and director of the AGATE Institute in Phoenix, AZ, with close to 30 years in clinical practice and 23 years delivering EMDR therapy to clients across the lifespan. She is an EMDRIA-approved trainer and a Trainer of trainers for EMDR Colombia. She is a psychotherapist, author, and international speaker on the use of EMDR therapy with children and adolescents with complex and developmental trauma, generational wounds, and dissociation. She has led workshops and keynote presentations worldwide to thousands of clinicians. Ana is a fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD).
Ana is the author of EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches with Children: Complex Trauma, Attachment and Dissociation, and several books, book chapters, and articles on the use of EMDR therapy with children and adolescents.
She is the author of eight children’s books that address trauma and EMDR therapy. She also co-authored with Dr. Francine Shapiro an article on using EMDR therapy with children, published in 2013. Ana received the 2011 “Distinguished Service Award” from the Arizona Play Therapy Association and the 2012 Sierra Tucson “Hope Award.”
Ana has developed numerous intensive training programs and protocols, including the “EMDR-Sandtray Protocol” “The Story-Making Protocol” and “The Systemic, EMDR- Attachment Informed Program to Heal Intergenerational Trauma & Repair the Parent-Child Attachment Bond.” She has also created “The Multimodal Integrative Approach to EMDR Therapy with Children Affected by Complex Trauma and Dissociation,” a unique and comprehensive model to use EMDR with children with complex clinical presentations.