About Robin
Robin Burns is a licensed clinical social worker with 10 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, depression, stress, relationship strain, trauma, and low self-esteem. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her style is warm and collaborative, and she centers each person's story during sessions.
She draws on several evidence-based approaches to tailor work to each person. Sessions emphasize clear coping skills, daily strategies, and small behavior changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to make emotions easier to understand and act on rather than to stay stuck in them. Robin often blends acceptance-focused tools and cognitive strategies to help people change unhelpful thought patterns and commit to values-based actions. Attachment-based ideas guide work on connection and trust in relationships.
Skills from dialectical behavior therapy are used when people need ways to tolerate intense emotion and reduce reactivity. Her way of working is practical and paced to the individual's needs. She helps people set concrete goals, try small experiments, and review what works.
Sessions are straightforward and geared toward day-to-day improvement. Robin practices in Texas and offers therapy in English. She supports a wide range of concerns beyond the main areas listed, including coping with chronic illness, caregiving stress, abandonment issues, body image, and communication problems.
Many clients appreciate a therapist who listens, teaches usable skills, and partners with them through change.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and getting unstuck from avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing thought patterns and behaviors that keep problems going, which helps with anxiety, mood, and stress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then mix methods to fit what helps most. Clients and the therapist review progress and adjust methods as needed so work stays practical and relevant.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and skills practice, while phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for different schedules and day-to-day needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- 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
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- 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
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- 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
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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