About Robert
Robert Peterson is a licensed independent clinical social worker with 30 years of experience. He focuses on everyday problems like stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and the strain of big life changes. He also helps with addictions, relationship and family concerns, parenting strain, and issues tied to identity such as LGBT and gender dysphoria.
Robert uses clear, practical steps in sessions. He listens first and then helps people try tools that feel manageable.
Background and approach
He often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help change unhelpful thinking and Solution-Focused Therapy to set small, concrete goals. Much of his early work was overseas with children and teens facing cultural adjustment, separation from family, and isolation. Those experiences shaped his focus on resilience - helping people regain footing after loss, trauma, or abrupt change.
He brings that same steady, problem-solving approach to adults facing grief, bipolar challenges, ADHD, or career stress. Sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented. Conversations may cover communication skills, impulse control, coping plans after trauma, or practical steps for parenting and career decisions.
He aims to make each step small and doable. Robert is based in Washington and holds an LICSW - Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker. He offers a mix of talk and skill practice so people leave sessions with something to try between meetings.
Approach and Access: Therapy Methods Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship so people feel heard and understood; this helps when someone is coping with loss, identity questions, or isolation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical techniques to reduce anxiety and manage mood. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people identify and shift emotional responses in relationships and personal struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then recommend methods to try. That plan can change over time based on what feels most helpful, and the choices are made together.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or need less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short check-ins, brief coaching, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to schedule sessions around daily life and to keep progress going between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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