About Robin
Robin Johnson is a licensed social worker who focuses on practical support for everyday struggles. She holds LMSW and LICSW credentials and brings eight years of clinical experience. Robin speaks plainly and works to make therapy straightforward and useful.
She aims to help people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or out of control. Common concerns she addresses include stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, anger, and ADHD. She also helps with relationship and family concerns and supports people coping with major life changes.
Background and approach
In sessions Robin follows a collaborative approach. The client guides the pace and content, and she offers direction when needed. Her style is direct and transparent, mixed with empathy, respect, and sometimes gentle challenge.
Robin uses a mix of methods to build skills and insight. She draws from client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior skill-building, mindfulness tools, and motivational interviewing. Typical work includes emotion regulation, grounding, and practical coping strategies.
She offers several formats for connecting, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Scheduling is mostly during weekdays, with occasional evening or weekend chat sessions. People who are comfortable with straightforward guidance and skills practice often find her approach helpful.
Therapeutic tools and online options for skill building
Robin blends client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior therapy skills. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the client's lead, helping people feel heard and understood while they set their own goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts and behaviors link to feelings and teaches practical strategies to shift unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy emphasizes emotion regulation and coping skills, useful for intense emotions, impulsivity, and relationship stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Robin will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they choose methods to try and adjust them as progress is made, keeping the plan practical and collaborative.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for in-depth conversation and exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and text messaging allow brief updates, coaching, or skill rehearsal between longer sessions. These flexible options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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