About Robyn
Robyn Ott is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 30 years of clinical experience. She offers practical, goal-focused help for people feeling stuck by anxiety, stress, depression, or painful life changes. Her style is direct and patient, with steady encouragement to try new ways of thinking and acting.
Robyn uses straightforward, goal-directed therapy to help clients set small, manageable steps. She emphasizes pacing, incremental goals, and accountability so progress feels doable.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on teaching tools that people can use between meetings to change unhelpful habits and thoughts. Her approach draws on several evidence-based methods. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and shift patterns of thinking.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) supports living with uncomfortable feelings while moving toward personal values. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Robyn also incorporates client-centered and emotionally-focused ideas to strengthen how clients relate to themselves and others.
She values strength-based work that highlights personal resources and problem-solving abilities. This is useful for concerns ranging from relationship strain to grief, parenting stress, and work burnout. Clients come for help with a wide range of concerns including trauma, self-esteem, sleep and eating issues, ADHD-related challenges, and family-of-origin problems.
Robyn aims to create a clear plan together, so goals are specific and measurable. She supports people through change with practical tools, steady feedback, and encouragement.
Online approaches that teach skills and acceptance
Robyn uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT works well for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns by offering practical exercises and clear steps to test new ideas in daily life.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy which focuses on noticing difficult feelings without getting stuck in them and choosing actions that match personal values. ACT can help when worry or avoidance stops someone from living the life they want.
Finding the best approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped before in order to pick methods that fit. That plan can shift as progress is made, with the client’s feedback guiding the work.
Online therapy offers flexibility across formats: video calls for in-depth conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is low, live chat for quicker check-ins, and text messaging for short, ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit skill practice and goal work into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Arkansas
- Languages
- English
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