About Robert
Robert Sherman is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of experience supporting adults through anxiety, stress, trauma, grief and depression. He works with individual adults over 18 and focuses on practical steps to reduce distress and restore daily functioning. He uses direct, goal-oriented sessions where people talk about what feels most urgent.
He helps clients build skills to manage stress and anxiety, process painful losses, and cope with major life changes.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear goals and measurable progress. Robert brings experience from clinical and employee assistance program work across Oregon, Idaho and Washington. He also provides consultation to primary care teams and medical professionals about behavioral health concerns.
His style is person-centered and trauma-informed while remaining intentional and focused. He creates an open space where people can name difficult feelings without judgment. He encourages realistic steps and holds steady expectations for progress.
Robert is licensed as an LCSW and LICSW and works with adults in Washington. Sessions are offered in English and are available in several online formats. People who want to begin can complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session according to availability.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Robert often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for worry, panic, low mood, and stress management.He also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to help people process traumatic memories and reduce the intensity of painful reactions. EMDR aims to reprocess distressing memories so they cause less disruption in daily life.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals, needs, and preferences, and may blend approaches over time as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. Video is helpful for a typical therapy session, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins or real-time support between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain treatment around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Idaho, Washington
- Languages
- English
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