Robert J. Balaban, M.D., a physician and psychiatrist, also has a post graduate degree in psychology from the New School for Social Research, where he studied personality theory. As an adult psychotherapist and psychopharmacologist with extensive experience, Dr. Balaban has been a clinician and teacher including being on the clinical faculty of the University of Wisconsin, and Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Balaban integrates several healing psychotherapies which he has learned through intensive training with some of the most influential and skilled therapists in the United States and Europe. Dr. Balaban's philosophy is to address various aspects of a person's well being including physical, psychological and spiritual dimensions.
Dr. Balaban integrates several healing psychotherapies which he has learned through intensive training with some of the most influential and skilled therapists in the United States and Europe. Dr. Balaban's philosophy is to address various aspects of a person's well being including physical, psychological and spiritual dimensions.
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EMDR one of the most effective approaches to personal change and offers a comprehensive approach to facilitate healing. This evidence based treatment integrates several orientations of therapy and counseling including cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic therapy.
EMDR is an information based therapy that believes that bad experiences, either small, medium, or severe are stored in memory networks, i.e. are frozen and encoded in our brain as images, thoughts and feelings.EMDR also believes that our current thoughts, feelings, and beliefs are linked into these pre-existing memories and experiences.
EMDR is an information based therapy that believes that bad experiences, either small, medium, or severe are stored in memory networks, i.e. are frozen and encoded in our brain as images, thoughts and feelings.EMDR also believes that our current thoughts, feelings, and beliefs are linked into these pre-existing memories and experiences.
Focusing is an experiential process that accesses the wisdom of the body, deepens one's connection to one's emotional life, and is a useful tool for stress reduction and insight. This process was originated by Gene Gendlin, Ph. D. who created a series of specific steps that brings us into our moment to moment experience.
Images and symbols are the language of the unconscious. It is simply the way the brain encodes information. Images are the content of our dreams during sleep and images are the symbols that are part of all mythologies. Symbols are encoded with vast reservoirs of energy such as the American flag, the eagle, and ancient symbols like the pyramids, the sphinx, a lotus flower or rose.
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