Our 67th HIE (Hypnotic Idea Exchange)!

More About the Presenter:

Tobi B. Goldfus, LCSW-C, BCD is a therapist, author and national/international speaker and trainer. She is an ASCH consultant with over 30 years of clinical hypnosis experience and is a certified EST therapist and consultant, national and international. In her book, From Real Life to Cyberspace and Back Again: Helping Our Young Clients Develop a Strong Inner Selfie (2017) and 2024 article in the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, she focuses on ego states being practiced, predicating factors that make young people on social media/gaming sites more vulnerable to negative or traumatic experiences, and those that build strong social networks, and provides assessment and psychotherapy techniques to promote balance between online and real life. Her recent article (August, 2024, The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis) “The Impact of Social Media Use on Depression, Anxiety and Well-Being for Teens/Young People: Using Hypnosis to Build a Strong Sense of Self” outlines how this issue has formed a global concern for mental heal and ways clinicians can intervene. She is a member and has presented frequently as faculty that includes the Milton H. Erickson Foundation conferences, ASCH ( the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and a member at large 2025), ISH (International Society of Hypnosis), ESH (European Society of Hypnosis), MEISA (MHE Institute of South Africa), SCEH(Society of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis), and key note speaker at NPHTI (National Pediatric Hypnosis Training Institute). She is often co-faculty for trainings for Ego State Therapy North America as well as ASCH approved hypnosis trainings; She is a member of NASW and GWSCSW, and a Board Certified Diplomat. Tobi is in private practice in Germantown, Maryland.