The Truth About Lying: Understanding Lying as a Trauma-Driven Behavior

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The Truth About Lying: Understanding Lying as a Trauma-Driven Behavior

Lying is a common, and deeply misunderstood, protective behavior, especially in children with trauma histories. What often looks like manipulation or defiance is more accurately a fear-based survival strategy rooted in a child’s nervous system and lived experience.

In this training, Robyn Gobbel reframes lying through a trauma-informed, neurobiological, and relational lens—helping caregivers understand what’s happening beneath the behavior, not just how to stop it.

Participants will learn how to respond in ways that:

  • increase felt safety and trust

  • reduce fear-driven behavior

  • move away from shame, punishment, and fear-based compliance

  • strengthen connection and long-term emotional security

This session moves beyond short-term behavior management and into meaningful, relationship-based change—offering practical tools and deep understanding for caregivers, professionals, and educators supporting children with complex needs.



Robyn Gobbel

LMFT

Robyn Gobbel

Robyn Gobbel, MSW, has 20 years of practice as a family and child therapist, specializing in complex trauma, attachment, and adoption. While she is no longer practicing as a therapist, Robyn’s diverse clinical practice and training creates the foundation of her work and includes EMDR (including EMDR adapted for children with attachment trauma), Somatic Experiencing, Theraplay, Trust Based Relational Intervention®, The Alert Program® and Yogapeutics Aerial Yoga Level 1 Teacher Training. Robyn has expertise in the field of relational neuroscience, including interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory and polyvagal theory. Robyn consults, teaches, and trains extensively throughout the US.  She previously served as an instructor for the Foundations of Interpersonal Neurobiology Certificate Program at Portland Community College as well as with the Adoptive & Foster Family Therapy Post-Graduate Certificate Program.  Robyn has served on the working board of the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies (GAINS). Robyn is the host of The Baffling Behavior Show podcast and the author of Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies that Really Work (Jessica Kingsley Publishers). 

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