Clients
Psychotherapy practice
Since 1981, I’ve been working with adults to assist them to clear trauma, deal with grief, illness, relationship issues, attachment deficits and goal attainment. I help couples enhance communication, sexual passion, and differentiation. I have experience with people of all sexual orientations and many ethnic, religious, spiritual and cultural backgrounds. As a social worker, I attend to issues of community, ethnicity, class, gender and "outsider" status.
I’m a synthesizer of therapy techniques. I don’t believe that any one method holds the key to every problem. Important tools and perspectives in my work include EMDR, Brainspotting, Attachment Theory, Structural Dissociation, Porges' Polyvagal Theory, Ericsonian Hypnotherapy, Cognitive Behavioral, Narrative, Object Relations, Thought Field and Movement therapies. For more information on my practice, go here.
Group Consultation
I’ve been running EMDR consultation groups since 1996. My groups meet monthly. Participants may present a case, a general topic or specific question. When I return from a conference or read a new book, I may lecture on the new information. Groups meet for one half hour per person. There are up to four people in each group. Each receives half an hour individual EMDRIA consultation credit per group, and group consultation credit, (up to one and a half hours) for the rest. Participants tell me that the groups are safe, supportive, highly informative and often entertaining. Many people stay in them for years.
Individual Consultation is available, in person or by telephone. For more information, go here.
EMDR Workshops
I teach EMDR-related workshops including the Two-Hand Interweave, EMDR with Cultural and Generational Issues, Anxiety Disorders, Depression, Couples, and Dissociation. I have presented these workshops at regional and international EMDR International Association conferences and by invitation.
EMDR Solutions II: For Depression, Eating Disorders, Performance and More
Due out in Spring 2009, Solutions II includes six chapters on using EMDR with Eating Disorders, five chapters on Depression, three on PErformance, five on working with Complex Trauma, and chapters on Edically Based Trauma, OCPD, Religious and Spiritual Issues, and Multiple Chemical Sensitivies. Writers include David Grand, Jim Knipe, Sandra Paulson, Katie O'Shea, Ulrich Lanius, Andrew Seubert and many more. Robin has seven chapters in the book.
EMDR Solutions: Pathways to HealingEMDR clinicians live for the moments when transformation occurs, when the trauma fades from frightening reality to mere memory, and when the chronic, unbearable pain suddenly disappears. EMDR Solutions: Pathways to Healing contains elegant and easy to learn EMDR-related protocols and procedures that create those moments for specific client populations. Nearly all of the methods have been taught at EMDR conferences, freestanding workshops or Level II trainings. Some have been published, in other forms, in journals and newsletters but none have been collected in a book. As an EMDR therapist, trainer, and consultant, I’ve used and taught many of these techniques. For this book, I asked the inventors of each technique to create a chapter that explains how to, when to, and why to do their procedure. Each chapter gives some background, in, for instance, dissociation, and then describes exactly how EMDR can fit in the course of a complete treatment. Each chapter includes typical case examples.
EMDR Solutions was published in 2005, and is in its third printing.
Psychological Issues for Health Care Practitioners
For five years I taught a course at the Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine (S.I.O.M.) that included practical information about boundaries and transference, psychological diagnoses, limit setting, promoting treatment compliance, referrals and the use of psychological attachment and containment techniques to promote healing in all patients. I co-wrote a chapter in O'Donohue and Levensky's Promoting Treatment Adherence: A Practical Handbook for Health Care Providers (Sage Publications, 2006) about increasing external resources for medical patients.