About Shirin
Shirin Roberts is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) in California with 26 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or major life changes. Her approach centers on listening carefully and working with each person as an individual to find useful ways forward.
She uses a client-centered style that prioritizes the person’s own goals and strengths. Shirin helps people talk through relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, motivation struggles, and issues with sleep or grief.
Background and approach
She also supports those facing addiction, career stress, compassion fatigue, and mood challenges such as depression and bipolar symptoms. Sessions aim to be straightforward and practical. Shirin works with clients to identify small, doable steps and new ways of coping.
She draws on tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help change unhelpful thinking and reduce intense emotions. For people dealing with complex or ongoing challenges, she can incorporate EMDR techniques or solution-focused strategies to target specific memories or build quick, concrete plans. She also attends to concerns related to aging, caregiving, chronic illness, blended families, and difficult family-of-origin patterns.
Shirin creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can name what matters to them. She encourages honest conversation about goals, setbacks, and progress. Taking the first step can feel hard; she offers steady support through that process.
Approaches that translate to online care
Shirin often combines a client-centered stance with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to address day-to-day stress and anxiety. CBT focuses on noticing unhelpful thought patterns and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms and improve coping. She also uses mindfulness techniques to help people calm racing thoughts and stay grounded during intense moments.For people working through trauma, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) can be incorporated to target distressing memories and reduce their emotional charge. These approaches are explained clearly and chosen together so the person understands why a particular method might help and what to expect.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for deeper therapeutic work and EMDR-style processing, while phone or shorter chat sessions can fit a busy schedule or provide a lower-bandwidth option. Text and messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, skill practice, and keeping momentum between sessions. This range of formats makes it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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