About Robin
Dr. Robin Avery helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship strain, and the strain of life changes. She also supports people coping with addiction, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, issues with intimacy, and concerns about self-esteem and career direction.
Dr. Avery brings an approachable presence to sessions and aims to help clients find clearer direction and relief. She works from practical, evidence-informed approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), attachment-based work, and client-centered methods.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize learning skills for coping, ways to notice patterns that cause distress, and steps to try new behaviors that have better results. The focus is on what the client wants to change and what feels meaningful to them.
With 18 years of professional experience and dual licensure as a North Carolina Psychologist (NC Psychologist 5824) and a California Psychologist (CA Psychologist 12495), she draws on a broad background to inform her work. She describes therapy as a collaborative process where the client’s goals guide the plan. Dr.
Avery pays attention to life context, including caregiving strain, chronic illness, body image and aging concerns, blended family dynamics, and losses that come with big transitions. She blends mindfulness and insight-oriented conversation with concrete skills training to help people manage intense feelings and rebuild routines. The approach is steady and empathic.
Clients can expect a balance of supportive listening and practical exercises aimed at reducing distress and creating more satisfying daily life.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify what matters most to them and take small actions that align with those values while learning to accept difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change patterns that keep someone stuck. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns shape current connections and helps people build healthier ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dr. Avery treats this as a collaborative process and will help a client try approaches that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they check what is helping and adjust the plan as therapy progresses.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week. Video is useful for deeper conversational work and skill demonstrations, phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat can support brief check-ins or practice between sessions. These formats let people continue therapy when travel, schedules, or location would otherwise make meeting in person harder.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Florida, California, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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