About Roberta
Roberta Garrett offers steady, experienced care for people facing addiction, grief, depression, and relationship or intimacy concerns. She is a licensed clinical social worker in Colorado with four decades of practice. Her approach centers on listening and helping people find practical ways to cope and change.
Clients meet a clinician who aims to make talking about hard things easier. She creates a calm space for people to say what they are feeling without judgment.
Background and approach
The first steps usually focus on understanding immediate needs and setting small, achievable goals. Roberta draws on client-centered methods to follow each person’s pace and priorities. She also uses narrative techniques to help people separate themselves from painful stories and imagine different possibilities.
These methods are used to address addiction, relationship problems, grief, trauma, and life transitions. Her background includes work across medical and mental health settings and independent practice. That experience informs a practical focus on coping skills, relapse prevention, communication, and grief management.
She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, caregiving stress, end-of-life concerns, and the emotional fallout of family issues. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. Roberta works with adults who want clear steps to manage symptoms and improve daily life.
She encourages realistic change and offers steady support while people build new routines.
How client-centered and narrative approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, respect, and following the person’s lead. The therapist reflects and clarifies so the client can name needs and choose goals. This approach helps when someone needs a calm space to talk through feelings and make realistic changes.Narrative therapy helps people see their problems as separate from themselves. It uses conversation to rewrite painful or limiting stories and to highlight strengths and values. This style can be useful for addiction, grief, relationship struggles, and coping with major life changes.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods fit best for current goals and preferences. That decision can shift over time as needs and progress change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for longer sessions and face-to-face connection. Phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited or when being off-camera helps. Live chat and text are helpful for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or when quick support between sessions is useful. These options make scheduling and continuity easier for people with busy lives or limited travel options.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English