About Lylla Goheen, MA, RP, CCC, PgDip

Technique

What it does (Clinical Focus)

What it can do for you (Layperson Benefit)

Biofeedback & Mental Health Approaches

Utilizes mind-body feedback mechanisms and psychological interventions to treat Erectile Dysfunction (ED), delayed ejaculation, premature ejaculation (PE), dyspareunia, vaginismus, and vulvodynia.

Helps you regain physical comfort, confidence, and enjoyment in your sex life by addressing the root of pain or performance anxiety.

Sexual Trauma Processing

Employs sensitive, trauma-informed protocols to safely address and heal the psychological and somatic impacts of past sexual trauma.

Restores your sense of bodily autonomy, safety, and the ability to experience intimacy without fear.

Gottman Method Couples Therapy

Applies evidence-based assessments and interventions designed to de-escalate conflict and strengthen the marital friendship system.

Equips you and your partner with practical tools to stop fighting, communicate clearly, and rebuild your foundation.

Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

Identifies and transforms negative interaction cycles by targeting underlying attachment needs and emotional responses.

Helps you step out of the “same old argument” cycle and create a deep, secure emotional bond with your partner.

Relational Therapy

Explores how past relational dynamics and cultural influences unconsciously shape current interpersonal connections.

Helps you understand why you connect the way you do, empowering you to build healthier, more authentic relationships.

Sensate Focus

Utilizes structured, mindfulness-based physical touch exercises to treat sexual dysfunction and lower performance anxiety.

Removes the pressure of “performance” so you and your partner can rediscover physical connection and pleasure without anxiety.

The PLISSIT Model

Provides a tiered framework (Permission, Limited Information, Specific Suggestions, Intensive Therapy) for addressing sexual concerns.

Creates a paced, welcoming environment to talk about sex, ensuring you only go as deep as you feel comfortable with.

Dual Control Model of Sexual Response

Assesses the neurological balance of sexual excitation and inhibition systems to navigate desire discrepancies.

Helps you understand your unique “gas and brake pedals” for arousal, reducing shame around mismatched sex drives.

Technique

What it does (Clinical Focus)

What it can do for you (Layperson Benefit)

Trauma-Informed Care

Integrates an understanding of trauma into all interventions, prioritizing physical and emotional safety in the therapeutic space.

Ensures that you are in the driver’s seat of your healing, with a focus on safety, choice, and empowerment.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Identifies and restructures maladaptive cognitive patterns and behaviors that contribute to psychological distress.

Helps you break out of negative thought loops so you can manage anxiety and feel more in control of your reactions.

Psychodynamic Therapy

Explores how unconscious patterns and past experiences shape current behaviors, relationships, and emotional states.

Connects the dots between your past and present, helping you break old habits that no longer serve you.

Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Facilitates the understanding and harmonizing of different sub-personalities (“parts”) and protective trauma responses.

Fosters deep self-compassion by helping you understand that even your most difficult emotions are just trying to protect you.

Polyvagal-Informed Therapy

Utilizes the biology of the autonomic nervous system to help clients shift out of chronic fight, flight, or freeze states.

Gives you tools to literally calm your nervous system, helping you feel grounded and safe in your own body again.

Compassion Therapy

Focuses on alleviating shame and self-criticism by cultivating deliberate, structured self-compassion and emotional resilience.

Softens the harsh “inner critic” and helps you build resilience through genuine, grounded self-kindness.

Somatic Experiencing (SE) & Pain Reprocessing

Employs somatic tracking and nervous system regulation to process stored trauma and neuroplastic (chronic) pain.

Reconnects your mind and body so you can gently release physical tension, stored trauma, and chronic pain.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Combines cognitive-behavioral techniques with mindfulness to enhance emotional regulation and distress tolerance.

Equips you with a highly practical “toolkit” to handle intense emotions and stressful situations without feeling overwhelmed.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

Promotes psychological flexibility by encouraging acceptance of difficult emotions alongside values-based action.

Teaches you how to stop fighting your difficult feelings and start taking action toward the life you actually want to live.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

Blends mindfulness practices with cognitive therapy to prevent relapse in depression and anxiety.

Keeps you anchored in the present moment, stopping the spiral of anxious “what-ifs” before they start.

Narrative Therapy

Assists clients in externalizing their problems and re-authoring their personal narratives to highlight personal agency.

Helps you separate your true identity from your struggles, rewriting your story from a place of strength.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT)

Concentrates on current resources and future hopes rather than past problems to facilitate rapid, goal-directed change.

Focuses heavily on your inherent strengths to help you build practical, immediate solutions for positive change.

Technique

What it does (Clinical Focus)

What it can do for you (Layperson Benefit)

Motivational Interviewing (MI)

Utilizes a collaborative, goal-oriented communication style to elicit and strengthen internal motivation for change.

Helps you resolve mixed feelings about changing your habits, building your own internal drive rather than forcing it.

Harm Reduction Framework

Applies non-judgmental, client-centered strategies aimed at minimizing the negative health and social impacts of substance use.

Meets you exactly where you are with practical support to keep you safe, without demanding immediate perfection.

Relapse Prevention Therapy (RPT)

Focuses on identifying high-risk situations and developing durable cognitive and behavioral coping strategies.

Helps you map out your personal triggers and build a solid, realistic plan to maintain your progress long-term.