About Robert
Dr. Robert Egbert is a licensed mental health counselor with 30 years of clinical experience. He holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and an Ed.D., and brings a calm, experienced presence to sessions.
He has worked with many common concerns including depression, anxiety, and ADHD. He also helps with relationship and intimacy issues, grief, addiction, and life transitions. He draws on a blend of approaches rather than one fixed method.
Background and approach
He often uses Client-Centered listening to understand each person's needs. He also applies Cognitive Behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and patterns. Emotion-focused work and existential ideas are used when meaning, attachment, or deeper values are central to the problem.
Sessions are practical and conversational. He focuses on clear steps people can use between meetings, such as communication exercises, behavioral experiments, and simple routines for sleep or eating. He also pays attention to how past losses or attachment wounds shape current reactions, and helps people make small changes that feel doable.
Robert’s background includes time as a school counselor and in family therapy settings, giving him experience across many life stages and roles. He speaks English and works with people facing issues like parenting stress, caregiving strain, body-image concerns, and career decisions. His style is steady and pragmatic, aiming to reduce overwhelm and build skills.
Outside work he enjoys the outdoors, travel, and radio. He lives with a professional writer and values a grounded, low-key approach to therapy.
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person as they tell their story. Online sessions let the therapist listen closely and reflect what matters most to the client, helping people feel heard and understood regardless of where they connect from.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In remote sessions the therapist and client review unhelpful thought patterns, set small behavioral experiments, and track progress between meetings using straightforward tasks and homework.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) examines patterns in close relationships and the emotions that drive them. Through video or calls this work can help people notice interaction cycles, practice new ways of responding, and rehearse conversations to improve connection and intimacy.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or has not worked before, then try methods that fit those needs. Adjustments are made over time so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and exercises that benefit from seeing facial cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text messaging can be good for short check-ins, skill practice, or when someone needs a brief touchpoint during a busy day. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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