About Roberta
Roberta Davis is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York who helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma, and a wide range of life challenges. She aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable. Conversations are straightforward and focused on what matters to each person.
Roberta draws on 12 years of professional experience across school counseling, social work, primary therapy, and teaching psychology. That background shapes a practical style that blends talking, problem-solving, and real-life skills.
Background and approach
Sessions are aimed at lowering day-to-day distress and building tools that fit the client's life. She supports people dealing with grief, addiction, relationship strain, and parenting concerns. Roberta also works with issues such as eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, obsessive-compulsive patterns, phobias, and gender dysphoria.
She pays attention to how cultural background and immigration-related stress can affect mental health. In sessions she encourages honest, direct conversation about thoughts and feelings. The tone is nonjudgmental and collaborative.
Roberta helps clients set small, achievable goals and checks progress along the way. Her experience with diverse settings informs practical coping strategies for chronic illness, end-of-life worries, and workplace compassion fatigue. She also offers coaching-style support for career and life transitions.
Many people find the mix of empathy and concrete steps helpful for lasting change.
Approaches that guide online work and practical steps
Roberta uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that emphasize clear steps and skill-building. One common approach she uses focuses on breaking problems into manageable parts and teaching coping skills for anxiety and everyday stress. This helps when worry or panic starts to limit daily activities.She also incorporates methods that address trauma and grief by helping people name what happened, understand reactions, and practice grounding and self-soothing techniques. These tools are useful for reducing intrusive memories and improving sleep and emotional regulation.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Roberta works with each person to decide which techniques fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful when visual cues and a fuller conversation matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat or messaging can fit into busy days and allow brief, ongoing support between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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