About Robyn
Robyn Thorsted is a licensed counselor who helps people facing anxiety, grief, stress, and major life changes. She offers straightforward support for parenting challenges, relationship strain, depression, and struggles with self-esteem. Her approach is practical and steady, aimed at helping people take the next small step forward.
Robyn draws on nine years of clinical practice in Utah and emphasizes the client's own knowledge of their life. She listens first, then helps identify strengths and workable strategies.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and simple tools that fit daily life rather than abstract theories. She uses a mix of therapy styles that match each person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can help change unhelpful thinking and behaviors.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) supports people in accepting difficult feelings while moving toward valued living. Attachment-based ideas guide work around closeness and relationship patterns. Robyn often helps people manage parenting stress, grief and loss, compassion fatigue, and the aftermath of trauma and abuse.
She also supports people dealing with ADHD, addiction, and career transitions. Her work includes attention to adoption and foster care, blended family issues, and loneliness. Clients can expect a respectful, collaborative process.
Robyn frames change as a series of small, achievable moves and encourages practical skills like emotion regulation and communication. She aims to empower people to rely on their existing strengths while learning new ways to cope and connect.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Robyn commonly integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy into online sessions. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be practiced through exercises and homework between meetings. ACT helps people notice difficult feelings, clarify personal values, and commit to small actions that move life in a meaningful direction.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Robyn collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. She will check in regularly and adjust techniques so the work feels useful and doable in everyday life.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people balancing work, parenting, or medical needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction when that helps deepen connection. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing skill practice, or convenient touchpoints between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's 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)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Utah
- Languages
- English
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