Psychotherapist Robin Bilazarian teaches readers to manage their stress and other issues through self-applied acupressure and other techniques.
Mt. Laurel resident and psychotherapist Robin Bilazarian has always wanted to help others.
Bilazarian recalls how her mother sometimes struggled with walking as a result of childhood polio, and she remembers how good it felt to help her with tasks around the house.
By the time Bilazarian left high school, she knew she wanted to continue helping others in her professional life, which eventually led to her working as a psychotherapist for 35 years.
For the last eight of those years, Bilazarian has also worked on a new way to help others by writing a self-help book entitled “Emotional Smarts: 60 Stress Management & Communication Techniques For Emotional Freedom.”
In her work, Bilazarian uses a form of counseling known as Emotional Freedom Techniques to help clients to handle their problems with self-applied acupressure, along with other several other widely used psychotherapy techniques.
Now Bilazarian has collected those techniques into place so more people can benefit from EMT and learn about different ways to relieve stress and deal with issues such as grief, work problems, anger management, phobias and more.
As Bilazarian describes it, the self-applied acupressure in EMT has people use light touch or tapping on 11 different acupressure points across their bodies to calm the body while dealing with previous traumatic experiences and issues.
“You become so relaxed while talking about horrific events that it desensitizes the issues,” Bilazarian said.
Bilazarian said she’s been using the technique in her work for the past 20 years to great success, along with other standard psychotherapy techniques described in her book such as active listening.
According to Bilazarian, active listening allows people to improve their communication skills and help others more effectively.
Through active listening Bilazarian said people are trained to paraphrase others when speaking rather than directly quote one another in order to make those in the conversation pay closer attention.
By responding in that way, Bilazarian said people could calm the emotions of others and have an easier time or think of solutions to problems.
“It’s been around forever and it’s the bread and butter of any therapist, ” Bilazarian said.
When asked whom she would recommend the book to, Bilazarian said she believed there could be a place for it in any home.
“I think this book has lessons in it for everybody…I think it’s useful for people to read and just put aside,” Bilazarian said. “If something comes up later such as a death in the family or phobia, people can then come back to it.”
“Emotional Smarts: 60 Stress Management & Communication Techniques For Emotional Freedom” is available on Amazon.com Kindle.
Bilazarian is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Diplomate in Clinical Social Work and International Certified Master EFT Trainer. She is employed by a regional trauma hospital hired to work with staff and also has a private practice.
To learn more about the book or Bilazarian’s work, visit robineft.net.
