Dr Robbie Adler-Tapia is a licensed psychologist who specializes in working with clients who have experienced trauma. Even though she works with clients of all ages Dr Robbie specializes in working with young children. Dr Robbie provides therapy for clients with attachment and adoptions issues, child abuse histories, and for law enforcement. She is an EMDR Institute Facilitator and EMDR/HAP Trainer. With the EMDR HAPKIDS Program, Dr. Adler-Tapia volunteers to assist with coordinating research, consultation, and training for therapists working with children internationally. She has also provided specialty trainings on treating attachment and the dissociative sequelae, working with young children in the child welfare system and on EMDR with children. Along with her co-author, Carolyn Settle, Dr. Adler-Tapia is co-author of the book, EMDR and the Art of Psychotherapy With Children and accompanying treatment manual, and a chapter on EMDR with Children in the soon to be released book edited by Allen Rubin and David Springer, The Clinician's Guide to Evidence-Based Practice Series, Volume 2, Treatment of Traumatized Adults and Children.
Child psychotherapy: Integrating Developmental Theory Into Clinical Practice. Robbie Adler-Tapia (2012). Springer, N.Y.
"The Art of EMDR in Psychotherapy With Children" Robbie Adler-Tapia & Carolyn Settle (2008) Springer Publishing.
Adler-Tapia, R., & Settle, C., & Shapiro, F. (2011). Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) With Children Who Have Experienced Sexual Abuse and Trauma. In P. Goodyear-Brown (Ed.), The Handbook of Child Sexual Abuse: Prevention, Assessment, and Treatment. N.Y.: Wiley.
Adler-Tapia, R. L. (2011). EMDR for the treatment of children in the child welfare system who have been traumatied by Abuse and Neglect. In A. Rubin (Ed.). Clinician's Guide to Evidence-Based Practice and Programs for Maltreated Children and Families at Risk.
EMDR Assessment and Desensitization Phases with Children: Step-by-Step Directions (2009), Robbie Adler-Tapia & Carolyn Settle. In, M.Luber (Ed.) "EMDR Scripted Protocols" (Springer).
EMDR Psychotherapy With Children (2009), Robbie Adler-Tapia & Carolyn Settle. In A. Rubin and E. Springer (Eds.) "Treatment of Traumatized Adults and Children: Part of the Clinician's Guide to Evidence Based Practice Series (Wiley).