About Roberto
Roberto (Bo) Hess is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, sleep problems, anger, grief, and mood concerns. He works with issues around body image, codependency, isolation, first responder stress, and other life changes. He uses straightforward language and a calm presence to help people navigate hard moments.
Bo aims to meet people where they are and reduce the sense of being stuck.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps that can ease daily life. He blends approaches to match what each person needs rather than using one fixed method. His approach mixes cognitive-behavioral work, dialectical skills, EMDR tools, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing.
That combination lets him address patterns, intense feelings, trauma memories, and motivation for change. He pays attention to both immediate coping skills and longer-term goals. Bo emphasizes building trust and honesty in the therapy relationship.
He believes laughter and straightforward feedback matter alongside serious work. This helps people feel clearer about choices and more able to try new ways of handling stress and relationships. With three years of professional experience and practice based in North Carolina, he conducts sessions in English and accepts international clients.
Practical logistics like session format and scheduling are discussed up front so therapy fits into daily life.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
CBT, or cognitive-behavioral therapy, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test them with real-world experiments. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep troubles, and daily stress because it focuses on clear steps you can practice between sessions.DBT, or dialectical behavior therapy, teaches skills for managing intense emotions, reducing impulsive actions, and improving relationships. It includes tools for mindfulness, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation that can be practiced during and between appointments.
EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, is an approach aimed at reducing the hold of painful memories. It uses guided attention and structured processing to help people feel less reactivated by traumatic material.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences and then suggest which methods to try. That plan can be adjusted over time in collaboration with the client.
Online therapy makes these methods more accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow for a full conversation and visual cues, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and chat or messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and across different time zones.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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