About Robert
Robert Whiting is a licensed clinical social worker in Arizona with 15 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. He focuses on practical steps that reduce overwhelm and increase day-to-day functioning. He writes short, clear plans and talks through what matters most to each person.
He commonly helps people who are struggling with addiction, anger, low self-esteem, or depression. He also supports people dealing with panic attacks, mood shifts, and the pull of process addictions such as problematic gambling or exercise.
Background and approach
His work includes addressing caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and the fallout from abandonment or isolation. Robert uses methods drawn from acceptance and commitment approaches, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. In sessions he often blends skills practice with real-world planning so people can try small changes between meetings.
He aims to make therapy concrete and useful rather than vague. He treats each person with respect and sensitivity and adjusts the pace to what the client needs. Conversations are tailored so the goals are clear and achievable.
Robert emphasizes collaboration and helps people identify what they want to change and how to get there. Many people come for short-term support to get moving again. Others come for longer work on patterns such as control issues, guilt, or forgiveness.
Wherever someone starts, he focuses on steps that build confidence and improve daily life.
Approach-focused online therapy that fits your life
Robert commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify their values and accept difficult thoughts while taking small steps toward a meaningful life. It can be useful for anxiety, avoidance, and problems that keep people stuck.He also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT often includes specific homework and experiments to test new ways of coping with panic, depression, or stress. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers practical skills for regulating emotion and improving communication when overwhelm or anger feels intense.
Finding the right combination of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals, preferences, and what feels manageable. That process is revisited as progress unfolds so adjustments can be made together.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and skills practice, phone works well for brief check-ins or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can help with short updates or prompts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule while keeping the focus on practical change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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