About Robin
Robin Burns is a licensed clinical social worker with ten years of experience helping people facing anxiety, depression, stress, relationship strain, trauma, and self-esteem struggles. She focuses on clear, practical steps to reduce distress and increase coping. Her style is warm and collaborative, aimed at making hard conversations easier to start.
She listens first to understand each person’s story and priorities. Sessions center on the client's goals and strengths rather than fitting someone into a checklist.
Background and approach
Robin uses straightforward tools to build skills for managing worry, mood, and tough relationship moments. Her work draws from several evidence-based approaches, used flexibly to match a person’s needs. That can mean noticing unhelpful thinking patterns, practicing emotional regulation skills, or clarifying values to guide next steps.
Progress is measured in small, useful changes rather than perfect outcomes. Robin also helps people dealing with specific life issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns, caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image, and the challenges of blended families. She pays attention to how past experiences shape present behavior and relationships and helps people try new responses.
Therapy with Robin tends to be straightforward and paced to the individual. She encourages practical homework between sessions and supports people in testing new ways of coping. The goal is clearer thinking, steadier emotions, and more confidence in daily life.
Therapeutic methods you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and decisions that feel overwhelming. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, offering concrete tools for worry, low mood, and relationship problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Robin will collaborate with each client to choose and adapt methods based on need, goals, and comfort. That means trying techniques, checking how they feel in daily life, and pivoting when something isn’t helping.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat can work for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing, flexible contact between appointments. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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