About Robert
Robert Hinman is a Minnesota psychologist with 40 years of experience. He listens carefully and works alongside people to address anxiety, depression, stress, and related life problems. He emphasizes straightforward, kind communication and practical steps that fit each person's pace and goals.
He began his career after earning a Master’s degree in Counseling from Boston University while on active duty in the U.S. Army. He has held the Minnesota Psychologist credential LP1599 since 1992 and has practiced in clinics, schools, residential settings, and homes.
Background and approach
His long career brings wide exposure to many life situations and coping challenges. In sessions he focuses on clear understanding and concrete tools. He draws on client-centered methods to follow a person’s lead and on cognitive behavioral techniques to address thinking and behavior patterns.
Motivational interviewing and solution-focused work help people find goals and build momentum toward them. He has helped people with relationship strain, parenting concerns, addictions, trauma and grief, bipolar and mood difficulties, and issues around identity and intimacy. He also supports people facing career change, burnout, loneliness, and midlife transitions.
Robert aims to be direct and honest while remaining warm and humane. He highlights small successes and adapts strategies to what actually works. People who want a steady, experienced clinician to help them work through practical problems may find his style a good fit.
How his approaches fit with online care
Client-centered work means the therapist follows the person's concerns and priorities, offering empathy and reflective listening to help clarify goals and values. This approach helps when someone needs a steady, understanding presence while sorting problems like anxiety, relationship strain, or grief.Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and provides concrete exercises to test new ways of thinking and behaving. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and coping with life changes because it emphasizes practical steps and measurable progress.
Motivational interviewing helps people find internal reasons to change and build momentum toward those goals. It pairs well with goal-focused work when someone is unsure about making a change or needs help increasing motivation.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and day-to-day realities, and then suggest methods to try. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging offer flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging can support short check-ins or notes between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or travel schedules while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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