About Robb
Dr. Robb Kerr, PhD is a licensed professional counselor with 34 years of clinical and academic experience. He practices in Michigan and provides care in English.
He encourages people to take the first step and offers a calm, nonjudgmental approach to difficult problems. He uses client-centered methods to build trust and a working relationship. That means conversations focus on what matters to the person sitting across from him.
He listens for values, goals, and the ways stress or anxiety show up in daily life.
Background and approach
Psychodynamic work helps him track patterns that repeat across relationships and life stages. He often looks at past experiences that shape current reactions, then helps people try new responses. This can be useful for attachment, abandonment, and commitment concerns.
Trauma-focused techniques are part of his practice when past hurts keep surfacing. He helps people name what happened and develop ways to reduce overwhelming reactions. This approach is used alongside talk-based work for issues like grief, trauma and abuse, and dissociation.
His focus areas include anxiety, depression, relationship and family stress, intimacy-related issues, LGBT concerns, compassion fatigue, and coping with major life change. He also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, body image and blended family challenges. Dr.
Kerr aims to make therapy practical and understandable so people can try manageable steps between sessions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and creating a respectful space where a person sets the pace and priorities. Online sessions follow the same idea - the therapist pays attention to what matters most and helps set practical goals that fit the client’s life.Psychodynamic Therapy explores repeating relationship patterns and early influences that shape reactions today. In online work this looks like tracking themes from week to week and testing small changes between sessions to see what shifts in daily life.
Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on identifying and reducing the ways past events continue to cause distress. When delivered remotely, the therapist uses talk-based techniques and pacing to help manage strong emotions and build coping tools.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, listen to a person’s history and goals, and adjust methods as needed. That way the work reflects individual needs rather than a fixed plan.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues for richer conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter, flexible touches between longer sessions and can fit a break at work or a busy schedule. These options aim to make regular therapy easier to maintain.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- 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
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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