About Robert
Robert Peterson, LICSW, helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and phobias. He brings three decades of practice to conversations that matter. He speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
He often works with people adjusting to big life changes, grief, parenting strains, adoption and foster care challenges, and relationship conflicts. He also supports those coping with addictions, anger, bipolar concerns, ADHD, and isolation. His background includes long experience in international settings where cultural displacement and separation from family are common issues.
Background and approach
Robert uses straightforward tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy to build resilience. He helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, test them, and replace them with more useful thinking. Sessions also include skill building so people can handle stress and crisis more effectively.
Client-Centered Therapy informs his style. He listens first, reflects what he hears, and adjusts the pace to the person in front of him. That approach pairs with practical techniques so conversations stay grounded and goal-directed.
Robert holds a Master of Social Work degree and is a licensed independent clinical social worker in Washington. He offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time, and appointments follow a simple matching and scheduling process.
How these approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to a person as they are. The therapist reflects feelings and priorities so the person feels understood and can move at their own pace. This approach helps with anxiety, stress, relationship concerns, and adjustment to change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior. Sessions include exercises to spot unhelpful thoughts and to try new ways of thinking and behaving. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, panic, and phobias because it gives clear tools to practice between sessions.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) concentrates on emotions and how they shape connections with others. It teaches people to identify core feelings and to express them more clearly, which can improve intimacy and communication. EFT can help with relationship and attachment-related concerns.
Finding the right fit is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, try approaches that match those goals, and adjust methods based on what helps. That collaborative process means methods can shift over time as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging can be helpful for shorter updates, quick skill practice, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make therapy flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
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