About Robert
Robert Lower is an ACA counsellor with 16 years of experience. He helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low confidence or relationship strain. He aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and straightforward.
Robert keeps sessions warm and practical. He invites clients to talk about worries and goals in plain language. He focuses on building a calm space where thoughts and feelings can be named without judgement.
Background and approach
In session he mixes practical tools with reflective conversation. That can mean learning short skills to reduce anxiety, practising ways to change unhelpful thinking, or working on patterns that affect close relationships. He also supports people facing grief, trauma, addictions and major life changes.
He has worked with a wide range of concerns including ADHD, bipolar mood issues, eating and sleeping problems, caregiver stress and work-related compassion fatigue. He also offers support around identity questions, including LGBT matters, and issues connected to adoption, attachment and ageing. Robert works in Australia and conducts sessions in English.
He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging to suit different needs. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that suits them.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match what matters to you. It can help with anxiety, stress and coping during life changes by teaching simple practices to stay present and move toward valued goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behaviour and offers step-by-step exercises to reduce symptoms like panic, low mood or unhelpful habits. It is useful for anxiety, depression and sleep or eating concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Robert will talk with clients about their goals and try different methods to see what fits. He treats the choice of approach as a collaboration and adjusts strategies as progress is made.
Online sessions give practical benefits for people with busy lives or limited travel options. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or a quieter check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and fit sessions around work, family or medical appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace 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)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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