About Robin
Robin Burns is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of experience helping people face depression, anxiety, stress, relationship struggles, trauma, and self-esteem concerns. She focuses on practical steps you can use between sessions. Her style is warm and collaborative and she aims to create a space where people feel heard and respected.
Robin draws on methods that help people identify patterns and try different responses. Sessions often include learning new coping skills, practicing communication strategies, and noticing how thoughts and feelings affect choices.
Background and approach
She keeps language straightforward and avoids jargon so people can take ideas into daily life. Her background includes a decade of clinical work in Texas supporting adults through major life changes and long-standing challenges. That experience informs a flexible approach that adapts to each person’s needs and pace.
Robin combines goal-focused techniques with attention to relationships and emotional patterns. People who work with her can expect a partnership where goals are set together and progress is checked in regularly. She encourages small, realistic steps toward change and teaches concrete tools for managing symptoms and improving relationships.
Sessions balance practical skill-building with time to process difficult experiences. Robin is based in Texas and uses a mix of structured exercises and open conversation to help people move forward. She aims to make therapy useful and manageable for busy lives, focusing on what will make the biggest difference day to day.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters most to them and take small actions toward those values despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It is useful for anxiety, low mood, and getting unstuck from patterns that hold someone back.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors. It often involves short exercises to change thinking and practical strategies for managing symptoms like worry or low mood.
Robin views choosing an approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust over time if something is not helping. Finding the right mix of techniques is part of the work together.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit busy schedules. Video is helpful for more in-depth work, phone can be a quicker check-in, and text or chat can support brief check-ins or skill practice between sessions. These options increase flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy consistent despite work, caregiving, or health demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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