About Robert
Robert Dawson is a counsellor with eight years of practice. He works in the United Kingdom and offers help for common concerns like stress, anxiety and depression. He aims to be warm, patient and respectful during sessions so people feel heard and understood.
Rob’s approach is collaborative. He focuses on building a trusting relationship and tailoring sessions to each person. He welcomes people who feel marginalised and has a particular interest in supporting those who experience disability or differences in communication.
Background and approach
In sessions he uses client-centred principles, listening closely and following the concerns the person brings. He helps people talk through feelings, identify what matters to them, and find realistic steps to cope with day-to-day pressures. He is comfortable addressing issues such as low self-esteem, grief, addiction and trauma.
Rob draws on professional experience with adults and young people across diverse settings. He values straightforward conversation and aims to make starting therapy less daunting by being open about his own lived experience of mental health and a stammer. This personal perspective informs his patient and gentle manner.
People often seek him out for relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting and career stresses, ADHD and compassion fatigue. He also works with specific issues such as attachment, abandonment, body image and gender dysphoria. He adapts his work to each individual’s needs and priorities.
Client-centred care delivered online
Client-Centred Therapy places the person at the heart of the work. The counsellor listens without judgement and follows what the person wants to focus on. This approach helps when someone needs support with anxiety, stress, self-esteem or relationship concerns by prioritising their experience and pace.Rob emphasises collaboration when deciding on the right way forward. He will work with each person to identify goals, try approaches that suit their needs, and adjust plans as progress is made. Finding the best fit is part of the process and will be agreed together rather than assumed.
Online therapy offers flexible options to suit different lives. Video calls let people see facial cues and have a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be quicker and need less bandwidth. Live chat or text-based messaging can suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around work, family commitments or mobility needs, and they give several ways to keep continuity of care with registered or accredited professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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