About Robin
Robin Daughenbaugh is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and struggles with addiction. She focuses on building confidence and improving day-to-day coping. Robin aims to make starting therapy feel straightforward and supportive for worried parents and adults.
She keeps sessions focused on the person's goals and strengths. Robin listens first and uses that understanding to shape the work. She frames problems as parts of a larger story and looks for practical steps people can try between visits.
Background and approach
Her background includes three years practicing as an LCSW and many prior years in social work roles. That mix gives her both clinical perspective and experience with everyday challenges like caregiver stress, aging concerns, and life transitions. In session she draws on client-centered techniques to follow the client's lead.
She also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot patterns of thinking that keep anxiety or low mood active. Motivational interviewing helps when someone is trying to change habits related to substance use or motivation. Robin often works with people dealing with grief, trauma, isolation, social anxiety, panic, and the emotional fallout of adoption or foster care.
She helps people address guilt, shame, and relationship communication problems in simple, direct ways. The goal is clearer thinking, steadier mood, and better day-to-day functioning.
Approaches that fit online care
Robin uses client-centered therapy to prioritize what matters most to the person in front of her. That means sessions begin with listening, understanding the client's story, and shaping goals together so the work feels relevant and practical.She also applies cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns that feed anxiety or low mood. CBT offers concrete tools and small experiments clients can try between sessions to test new ways of thinking and behaving.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Robin will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. She adjusts the plan as progress is made and as priorities change.
Online sessions make it easier to keep therapy consistent. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging suit brief updates, homework reminders, or moments when writing feels easier than speaking. These formats offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
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- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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