EMDR

In-person sessions

Our unconscious mind uses past experiences to invisibly affect our current thoughts and behaviors. Unknown triggers may cause sudden anxiety or stress. Often time, we are unaware of how past experiences impact how we behave today.

EMDR treatment works to reduce the intensity and discover the underlying cause or causes.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an evidence-based therapeutic treatment that is highly effective in relieving strong emotions related to previous experiences. Extensive research since it’s development supports that EMDR is effective in treating post-traumatic stress disorder. Clinicians also find that clients find a reduction of symptoms related to anxiety, panic attacks, phobias, complicated grief, stress, history of abuse and neglect, and more.

For clients who have suffered a traumatic event, these past experiences can cause a “frozen” response, leaving the person experiencing memories, emotions, and physical responses to a trauma over and over again even though the traumatic event has ended. Treatments such as EMDR help the brains of trauma survivors process information differently, allowing them to “unfreeze” and resume normal information processing.

Robin Goben is trained in several types of trauma processing treatment methods:

Cognitive Processing Therapy
Prolonged Exposure Therapy
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
EMDR

EMDR is best used within a therapeutic relationship where rapport and trust have been established. Your work will be tailored to meet your therapy goals. EMDR therapy can be used in an adjunctive manner with traditional talk therapy.

Services Provided

Relationships

If you are alive, you have relationships. Some of them are pleasant and some of them are difficult. I specialize in relationships with difficult people in our lives. Happy clients have healed from generational trauma, poor attachment, family members with mental health diagnoses or symptoms, histories of violence and more. Robin blends Ericksonian principles with attachment and systems theory to restore sanity to those tough relationships of present or past. I have some training in Emotional Focused Couples Therapy and use its foundation in couple’s work.

Trauma

Having worked with individuals and families who have experienced immediate, distant or even generational trauma, I have come to respect the impact these events have on shaping all parts of people’s lives. I have been trained in trauma-related hypnosis, EMDR, and TF-CBT. Using hypnotic techniques with EMDR, parts work and mindfulness training, clients can learn to reduce intense responses and discover new ways to experience life in more meaningful and adaptive ways.

Ericksonian Hypnotherapy

I have hundreds of hours of instruction in the area of Ericksonian Hypnosis from Dr. John Lentz at the Ericksonian Institute of Jeffersonville Indiana, Dr. Jeffrey Zeig at the Ericksonian Foundation and from Dr. Rob McNeilly at CET. My personal approach tends to be conversational, as taught by the late Betty Alice Erickson, utilizing the natural trance and relationship between client and therapist. Working this way sometimes leads to seemingly spontaneous symptom reduction or life improvements for the client who newly realizes more of their potential.

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