Globally, my team and I, Arianne Struik, provide training, consultation and supervision on the treatment of chronically traumatized and dissociative children and their families. I developed the Sleeping Dogs® method to engage chronically traumatized children who are unwilling or unable to participate and complete trauma treatment.
The Sleeping Dogs method is described in the book Treating Chronically Traumatized Children, the Sleeping Dogs method. I also provide treatment for chronically traumatized children and adults throughout Australia and New Zealand on a Fly-In-Fly-Out basis and monthly EMDR clinics from BITS Medical Centre, Boyne Island QLD Australia.
Arianne is the founder and director of The Institute for Chronically Traumatized Children located in Agnes Water, Queensland, Australia. She is a Clinical Psychologist, Family Therapist and EMDR-consultant, originally from the Netherlands. Arianne has more than 25 years of experience with trauma treatment for children, adolescents and their families, either living at home, in foster families or in residential facilities and through that has developed the Sleeping Dogs method. Across Australia, Arianne Struik worked for and with the Department of Child Protection, with Oranga Tamariki in New Zealand, with children living in foster families, residential homes, group homes, NGO’s or hostels in urban and remote areas. Arianne is a member of the ESTD Child and Adolescent Committee.
My team consists of Sleeping Dogs trainers, who provide training, supervision and consultation on the treatment of chronically traumatized children and the Sleeping Dogs method.
My Dutch team teaches in Dutch and English
As a Clinical Psychologist and EMDR C & A Consultant in training, Danny has broad experience with trauma treatment in residential youth care and is currently working with chronically traumatized infants, children and families in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Breburg, Tilburg, the Netherlands.
Mirjam is a Clinical Psychologist / Cognitive Behavioural Therapist and EMDR Practitionar. For more than 16 years, she worked with chronically traumatized infants, children and their families in a child and adolescent psychiatric hospital in the Netherlands, and was program director for children with emotional disorders for two years. Mirjam then worked in a general hospital with children and adolescents for 4 years. Mirjam also provides training on the trauma and attachment from her private practice. At this moment Mirjam works in Child and Adolescent Mental Health with children from 0-12 years old.
Gerinda van Haaften is a Clinical Psychotherapist, IMH Specialist and an EMDR C & A Consult in training. For seven years Gerinda worked with newborns in a hospital and in 2012 in private practice KJP Dumoulin/ Beter Starten and is specialised in the treatment of trauma and attachment difficulties with young children and their families with the Parent Child EMDR Therapy.
As a Clinical Psychologist and EMDR C & A Consultant in training, Caroline has broad experience with trauma treatment in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Infant Mental Health and is currently working with chronically traumatized, infants, children and families in Psycho-trauma Centre Sterk Huis in Goirle, the Netherlands. From her private practice, Caroline provides training on trauma and attachment.
Anja Dumoulin is a Clinical Psychotherapist/ Psychotherapist and an EMDR C & A Consult in training. Anja worked in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for more than 25 years with chronically traumatized children with attachment difficulties. Since 2025 she works from her private practice KJP Dumoulin/ Beter Starten and is specialised in the treatment of trauma and attachment difficulties with (young) children and their families with the Parent Child EMDR Therapy.
My Danish team teaches in Danish, Swedish and English
Sarah is a Clinical Psychologist and EMDR therapist and has worked with complex child and family cases for the last ten years. She has worked in a team specializing in assessment and treatment of children and young people who has been sexually abused, in a clinical setting with children, young people and families in a Danish family center, and now provides trauma treatment including Sleeping Dogs treatment and EMDR at her private practice.
Charlotte is a Clinical Psychologist, Theraplay therapist level 1 and EMDR therapist. She works with families in a Municipality Family Service Centre in the outskirts of Copenhagen. She became a specialist in child psychology in 2009 and has worked with complex families, young people and their network in a systemic framework for 15 years.
