Rob Hindman PhD

Dr. Hindman is a licensed psychologist who specializes in providing treatment and training in evidence-based therapy, including cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based approaches. A large amount of research has shown these approaches to effectively treat anxiety and mood disorders as well as other various reasons people come into therapy to address. Dr. Hindman has been part of the process of conducting treatment outcomes research, and believes it’s important to stay up-to-date with the latest information determining how to most effectively treat different mental health-related issues. He’s licensed in Pennsylvania and also holds a PSYPACT license allowing him to practice telehealth with individuals in the following states (AL, AZ, AR, CO, CT, DE, DC, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, ME, MD, MN, MO, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NC, OH, OK, PA, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WV, WI). Dr. Hindman specializes in anxiety disorders, including panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, social anxiety disorder, illness anxiety disorder, phobias, and post-traumatic stress disorder. He also treats other conditions, such as major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, personality disorders, body dysmorphic disorder, trichotillomania, excoriation disorder, and insomnia. Additionally, Dr. Hindman works with individuals who don’t have a formal psychiatric diagnosis but are looking for way to reduce stress or improve their overall sense of well-being. After receiving a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University, Dr. Hindman worked as a group and individual therapy for individuals with severe and persistent mental health conditions including chronic schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. This experience led him to get more involved in improving treatment, so he began his PhD training at the Anxiety, Mindfulness, and Psychotherapy Integration Research lab at the Catholic University of America. His research focused on mindfulness, where he developed two mindfulness-based treatments aimed at helping individuals reduce stress. Dr. Hindman completed his pre-doctoral internship at the Coatesville VA Medical center where he focused on providing therapy to veterans with PTSD in their outpatient PTSD treatment program as well as a variety of concerns as part of the primary care center. After receiving his PhD in clinical psychology, Dr. Hindman completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Beck Institute, where he learned how to conduct evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy. He stayed on as a faculty member for nine years, which included being involved in a number of activities. In addition to seeing clients in the clinic, he trained other therapists how to conduct more effective therapy through providing supervision and workshops, and wrote journal articles and book chapters on CBT-related topics. Specifically, he taught courses on CBT for depression, anxiety disorder, personality disorders, and how to integrate mindfulness into CBT. Additionally, Dr. Hindman worked with organizations to develop specialized treatment programs to best suit their clients’ needs. Dr. Hindman continues to serve as a faculty member at the Beck Institute where he provides supervision to therapists in CBT and conducts various trainings. How Therapy Works Prior to scheduling a first session, Dr. Hindman will hold a 10-15 minute phone call in order to make sure you’re a good fit to work together. He’ll also answer any questions you might have about treatment or himself. Sessions are 50 minutes in length. Dr. Hindman conducts sessions through a HIPAA-compliant telehealth platform. If you’d like to be seen in-person, he has office space in Fort Washington, PA. The first session is an evaluation session. The purpose of an evaluation session is to let you elaborate on your reasons for coming into treatment. It also allows Dr. Hindman to develop a conceptualization, which is an understanding about what has both led to your current presenting problems as well as what factors are maintaining those problems. Based on this information, he’ll also provide a diagnosis which insurance will need in order to provide reimbursement. At the end of the evaluation session, you’ll work together to set treatment goals, which are what exactly you’d like to accomplishment from treatment. Before each session, Dr. Hindman would prefer if you completed a brief survey about how you’ve been since doing this has been found to improve the effectiveness of treatment. Each session will then be focused on what’s most important to you, which might be a treatment goal, something that happened between sessions, or anything of concern. Sessions themselves involve learning different strategies for dealing with these issues, and then developing a plan for applying these strategies to your life. The strategies themselves are chosen based on what research has shown to be most effective in treatment the problem at-hand. Treatment typically starts off as weekly therapy sessions, although this might vary with some requiring more frequent sessions while others would rather meet every other week. The goal of therapy is to become your own therapist, so session frequency is reduced over time as you notice improvement. For example, you might move from weekly sessions, to biweekly, to monthly before no longer requiring treatment. Payment Dr. Hindman is an out-of-network provider, which means he’s not credentialed with any insurance plan. His fee is $225 for each 50-minute session, which is due at the time of the session by check, cash, or credit card. He’ll then provide you with a billing statement that has all of the information your insurance company needs to provide out-of-network reimbursement. Dr. Hindman has limited space available for those seeking a reduced fee, which you can inquire about during the initial call if there are any remaining openings. Publications Beck, J. S., & Hindman, R. (2017). Cognitive therapy. In B. J. Sadock, V. A. Sadock, & P. Ruiz (Eds.), Kaplan and Sadock’s comprehensive textbook of psychiatry (10th ed.) (Vol. I, pp. 2760-2775). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Beck, J. S., & Hindman, R. (2017). Cognitive therapy. In M. Dewan, B. Steenbarger, & R. Greenberg (Eds.), The art and science of brief psychotherapies (3rd ed.) (pp. 97-133). Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing. Beck, J.S., Hindman, R., & Broder, F. (2016). Frontiers in cognitive behaviour therapy for personality disorders. Behaviour Change, 33, 80-93. Broder, F., & Hindman, R. (2017). Classification: Client engagement in therapy. In A. E. Wenzel (Ed.), The Sage encyclopedia of abnormal and clinical psychology (Vol. II, pp. 667-669). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Hindman, R. (2017). Metacognitive therapy. In A. E. Wenzel (Ed.), The Sage encyclopedia of abnormal and clinical psychology (Vol. IV, pp. 2091-2094). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. Hindman, R. (2022). Enhancing well-being with CBT. Psychiatric Times, 39, 24-29. Hindman, R., & Beck, J. S. (2015). A clinical handbook of psychological disorders: A step-by-step treatment manual, fifth edition (Book Review). Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 21, 317-318. Hindman, R. K., Glass, C. R., Arnkoff, D. B., & Maron, D. D. (2015). A comparison of formal and informal mindfulness programs for stress reduction in students. Mindfulness, 6, 873-884. Lewis, C. C., Scott, K., Rodriguez-Quintana, N., Hoffacker, C., Boys, C., & Hindman, R. (2022). Implementation of the Wolverine mental health program, part 3: Sustainment phase. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 29, 244-255. Rodriguez-Quintana, N., Lewis, C. C., Scott, K., Marriot, B., Wahlen, & Hindman, R. (2022). Implementation of the Wolverine mental health program, part 2: Implementation. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 29, 227-243. Scott, K., Lewis, C. C., Rodriguez-Quintana, N., Marriott, B. R., & Hindman, R. K. (2022). Implementation of the Wolverine mental health program, part 1: Adoption. Cognitive and Behavior Practice, 29, 214-226. Woodruff, S. C., Arnkoff, D. B., Glass, C. R., & Hindman, R. K. (2014). Mindfulness and anxiety. In A. Ie, C. T. Ngnoumen, & E. J. Langer (Eds.), The Wiley Blackwell handbook of mindfulness (Vol. II, pp. 732-754). Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons. Woodruff, S. C., Glass, C. R., Arnkoff, D. B., Crowley, K.J., Hindman, R. K., & Hirschhorn, E. W. (2014). Comparing self-compassion, mindfulness, and psychological inflexibility as predictors of psychological health. Mindfulness, 5, 410-421.