About Robin
Robin Rutan is an Ohio licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with twenty years of counseling experience. She helps people who are managing anxiety, stress, depression, grief, addictions, and relationship problems. She listens first and moves at a pace the client chooses.
Her approach is practical and strengths-focused. Robin uses short-term and skill-based tools alongside deeper emotional work. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and dialectical behavior ideas to build coping skills.
Background and approach
She also uses client-centered and emotionally-focused methods to strengthen emotional awareness and improve communication. Her background includes work in school settings providing mental health and substance use counseling to adolescents. She also has experience in residential treatment, psychiatric and substance abuse facilities, independent practice, and program administration.
That mix gave her a lot of practice with crisis work and complex cases. Sessions may include writing, art, journaling, and music as part of therapy homework. She emphasizes identifying patterns and interrupting cycles that keep people stuck.
The goal is to use a person’s strengths to make steady, usable change. Robin aims to build rapport quickly and to offer creative, trauma-informed options when needed. She encourages people to take the first step, and she helps them plan concrete next moves toward feeling better.
How therapeutic approaches translate online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and supporting a person's own goals. Online sessions using this approach center on the client's experience and priorities, helping them shape each session and decide next steps.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) gives clear tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In online work CBT often involves short exercises, written worksheets, and homework that people can complete between sessions to track progress.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal effectiveness. These skills can be taught in video calls and reinforced with brief text check-ins or written practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and will adjust plans as needs change. That teamwork helps make sessions feel useful and focused on practical change.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills coaching and emotional processing, while phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging can support brief updates, skill practice, or quick problem-solving between longer sessions, offering flexibility for different schedules and needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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