About Elisabeth
Dr. Elisabeth Robbins offers calm, experienced care for people facing anxiety, stress, and life changes. She focuses on practical steps that make daily life more manageable and helps clients build clearer relationships with themselves and others.
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and has worked in the field for 27 years. Her background includes a PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy and long clinical experience helping people with depression, self-esteem, and relationship concerns.
Background and approach
She also pays attention to how shame, spirituality, and larger issues like climate change affect mental health. In sessions she uses straightforward tools and guided conversation. That might include looking at unhelpful thinking patterns, telling and reworking personal stories, or focusing on small, achievable changes.
The work tends to be down-to-earth and goal-oriented, with time set aside to practice new ways of coping between meetings. She also addresses family of origin concerns, caregiver stress, grief and hospice-related matters, and issues that come with aging. People seeking help with life purpose, isolation, or forgiveness will find these topics included in her work.
Dr. Robbins offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Her scheduling is somewhat flexible, and she can discuss appointment times that fit a client's routine.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Dr. Robbins commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Narrative Therapy during online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Narrative Therapy helps people reframe the stories they tell about themselves and their relationships, which can ease shame and open paths to change.Choosing the right approach happens together. She will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. From there she tailors sessions and may combine tools from different approaches so the plan fits the person's needs.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping the same therapeutic focus.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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