About Robbin
Robbin Bongiorno is a licensed clinical social worker in New York who brings 25 years of experience to her practice. She focuses on relationship strains, family conflict, grief and loss, and managing anger. Her work centers on clear conversation and practical steps that help people feel more steady in daily life.
Robbin aims to understand each person's situation before choosing ways to work together. She listens for what matters most and adapts conversations and goals to fit that.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and focused on making small, useful changes that add up over time. Her background includes long-term professional experience across a range of life transitions. That experience informs how she helps clients navigate loss, major life changes, and difficult communications.
She often supports people coping with chronic illness, pain, and issues that affect identity and purpose. Robbin pays attention to emotions like guilt, shame, and loneliness and helps people name and manage those feelings. She also helps with practical concerns such as money stress, workplace strain, pregnancy and childbirth worries, and midlife questions.
The aim is to create clearer thinking and more workable choices. People who meet with Robbin can expect a respectful, compassionate approach. She encourages honest talk and partners with clients to set achievable steps.
Taking a first step can feel hard, and she offers steady support through the process.
Practical evidence-based care online
Robbin draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on understanding feelings and changing unhelpful patterns. One approach emphasizes identifying and changing thinking and behavior patterns that get in the way of better relationships and mood; it helps with anger, persistent worry, and motivation. Another approach centers on grief and life transitions, helping people name losses, process emotions, and build next steps toward meaning and routine.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Robbin will talk with each person about their concerns, goals, and preferences, and then recommend ways to proceed. That collaborative process makes it easier to adapt methods if something is not working or circumstances change.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy lives or mobility limits. Video calls allow fuller face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a busy day, live chat supports brief check-ins, and text messaging can keep steady contact between appointments. These options make it easier to maintain momentum and fit therapy into real life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English