LPC, 7 years of experience
Rob Koehl invites adults to embark on journeys of healing and transformation. Through building awareness, focus, and emotional regulation skills, clients build confidence to start facing the stumbling blocks of their pasts. Balancing acceptance and change with gentle compassion, people's relationships with their painful experiences start to shift, helping them find new joy in life. Finding growth through learning DBT skills and EMDR.
In the first session, we collect some background information, define the problem(s), then explore a vision of life if those problems weren't in the way. We then set a plan to build the skills to build that life.
I have experienced a diversity of social, cultural, and economic settings. This helps me to see through the minutia and into the core human challenges that many of us face. Clients tell me that I am patient. I respect the importance of values and creating a vision based on each person's unique values.
I enjoy teaching people to better relate to and cope with their internal world and outside relationships.
Working with complex trauma that includes both developmental trauma and the stress from psychological trauma, it is important to develop safety and present focused coping skills. Once a foundation in trust and safety is developed, with adequate supports and coping skill, we can look at past focused treatments, including EMDR.