About Robert
Robert Hinman is a licensed psychologist with four decades of experience helping people cope with stress and anxiety. He practices in Minnesota and brings a straightforward, steady style to sessions. He focuses on practical steps people can take to feel better and regain control over daily life.
He earned a Master of Education in Counseling from Boston University while serving on active duty in the U.S. Army, and has been a Minnesota licensed psychologist (MN Psychologist LP1599) since 1992.
Background and approach
Over his career he has worked in clinics, schools, residential settings, and in people’s homes. That variety shaped his skill at meeting people where they are and adapting to real-life constraints. His work centers on partnering with each person to set clear, achievable goals.
He uses direct but kind communication, and mixes honest feedback with moments of humor. Sessions often focus on identifying immediate strategies and small steps clients can try between meetings. Clinically, he draws on client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral approaches, along with motivational interviewing and solution-focused tools.
Those methods are applied to concerns such as depression, relationship problems, addictions, trauma, grief, anger, self-esteem, parenting stress, and life transitions. Robert emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes. He highlights strengths and tracks small gains so people notice improvement.
The overall aim is to help clients reach a level of functioning and wellbeing they can sustain over time.
Approach-driven care delivered online
Robert commonly uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques. Client-centered work focuses on understanding each person’s experience and responding with empathy and respect to build trust. Cognitive behavioral techniques look at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teach practical skills to change them.He also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused tools when appropriate. Motivational interviewing helps people find internal reasons to change and resolve mixed feelings. Solution-focused work zeroes in on what’s already working and helps clients set small, concrete steps toward their goals. Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist discusses options and tailors work to each person’s needs, goals, and preferences rather than imposing one method.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a shorter check-in option, and text-based messaging supports ongoing written reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling and let people choose what works best for them.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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