About Robin
Robin Gross is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and changes in relationships. She works with concerns like depression, parenting challenges, sleep and eating problems, anger, self-esteem, and career strain. Robin also supports people managing ADHD, bipolar symptoms, caregiver fatigue, and adjustment after loss or life transitions.
Her style is straightforward and compassionate. She listens first to understand each person’s story.
Background and approach
Then she works with them to build practical skills and clearer ways of coping. Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm and restore daily functioning. Robin uses a blend of proven approaches to match what a person needs.
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to reframe unhelpful thoughts, acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values, and client-centered listening to make space for the person’s voice. Dialectical skills and emotion-focused work are used when emotions run high or relationships are strained. She provides faith-informed Christian counseling when requested, while respecting whatever spiritual or cultural background a person brings.
Her background includes decades in inpatient and outpatient settings and work with people across the lifespan in Texas. Robin emphasizes practical problem solving. Together with clients she builds coping tools, improves communication, and sets small, doable steps toward goals.
Her aim is to help people feel more capable and move forward with greater confidence.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes because it focuses on what matters most and small steps forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a hands-on approach that helps identify patterns of thinking that fuel anxiety and then practices new ways of responding. It works well for sleep problems, worry, and mood shifts. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience and uses empathetic listening to create space for change; it pairs well with skills-based techniques when someone needs both support and structure.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which approaches to try based on goals, comfort, and what seems to help. That process can be adjusted over time as progress is made or new challenges arise.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people work face-to-face from wherever they are. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging provide quick, flexible ways to track progress between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work through life transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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