About Robyn
Robyn Costanzo helps people who are juggling work, school, and life find more ease and balance. She practices as a licensed clinical social worker and brings a decade of experience working with New Yorkers from varied backgrounds. Robyn writes plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person she meets.
Robyn began her career in 2006 and opened a independent practice in Manhattan in 2009. She later expanded to Westchester County and then moved to remote care to better suit busy schedules.
Background and approach
Her background includes roles in large medical centers and smaller community agencies, so she has seen many different kinds of challenges. Her approach centers on careful listening and practical conversation. Sessions focus on concrete changes people can try between meetings, and on understanding patterns that affect mood, work, and relationships.
She draws on a long postgraduate study in psychoanalytic psychotherapy while keeping the work grounded and usable for daily life. Robyn works with concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, and career questions. She also supports people navigating trauma, sexual orientation concerns, and life transitions.
Conversations often mix coaching-style problem solving with deeper emotional work. She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules. Robyn aims to help people feel more comfortable in their own skin, breathe easier, and connect better with others.
Approaches that meet busy lives online
Robyn uses techniques that combine deep listening with practical change. One approach emphasizes careful listening and exploring relationship patterns to understand how early habits affect present feelings and interactions. This helps when someone wants to understand recurring problems in work or close relationships. Another approach focuses on short-term coaching and problem solving to reduce stress and improve functioning at work or school. That work is concrete and goal oriented, useful for career decisions, daily anxiety, and managing transitions.Deciding which approach to use is a team effort. The therapist and client talk about goals, try methods, and adjust as needed. Robyn frames therapy as a collaborative process that adapts to what helps most over time.
Online formats make this flexibility practical. Video calls let visual cues guide conversation. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a lunch break. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options help people keep therapy going around busy schedules and varied routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English