About Robert
Robert Theriault is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 24 years of experience who offers calm, direct support to people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, relationship strain, or life transitions. He uses a nonjudgmental, goal-focused approach and aims to help clients find clearer footing when things feel out of control. Chip adjusts how he works to match each person's needs.
He blends conversational, practical methods that help people notice patterns, make small changes, and try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and centered on the issues you bring to the room. His background includes long experience with family and relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, parenting stresses, grief, and challenges like addiction or bipolar mood shifts. He also supports people dealing with career stress, self-esteem concerns, and identity questions, including LGBT matters.
Therapeutic tools he uses include client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral techniques to reframe thoughts and behaviors, mindfulness practices to reduce stress, and motivational interviewing to support change. He also draws on existential ideas to help people find meaning and direction in difficult times. Robert integrates whole-person ideas into care and sometimes incorporates yoga as part of a broader self-care plan.
He practices in Delaware and conducts sessions in English using video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. The subscription-based session model can be canceled at any time. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules sessions based on the therapist's availability.
How his approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's perspective. In practice that means the therapist reflects back what is said, helps clarify values, and supports clients to set their own goals. This approach is helpful for people who want a supportive space to make sense of feelings and choices.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. The therapist and client identify unhelpful patterns and try concrete exercises to change them. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching skills people can use between sessions.
Mindfulness-based work emphasizes present-moment awareness and simple practices to reduce reactivity. Short mindfulness exercises can lower stress and improve focus, and they can be practiced both during and outside sessions.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and what they want to change. Treatment can shift over time as needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions let people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or require less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins, quick reflections, or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and travel schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Delaware, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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