About Roberta
Roberta Davis is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York. She draws on 12 years of experience to help people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and other life challenges. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at helping people feel heard and discover practical ways forward.
She has worked in school counseling, social work, primary therapy, and as a psychology professor. That background shapes a practical approach that blends teaching with hands-on support.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals, skills you can use day to day, and ways to manage emotions when they get intense. Roberta makes space for honest talk without judgment. She listens for what matters most and helps people break big problems into manageable steps.
Many clients work on improving sleep, coping with change, managing ADHD-related struggles, and rebuilding energy after trauma or loss. Her work also addresses identity and relationship concerns, including LGBT issues, gender dysphoria, and multicultural or immigration-related stress. She can help people navigate parenting strain, career frustration, or compassion fatigue with concrete strategies and steady support.
Roberta uses evidence-informed techniques and a collaborative pace. She encourages questions and adjusts the work to fit each person’s needs. The aim is practical change - better routines, clearer decisions, and more reliable ways to handle stress.
How evidence-based techniques work in online care
Many clients find benefit from short-term, skills-focused methods that teach coping tools and new habits. One common technique teaches practical strategies for managing anxiety and stress, such as breathing exercises, activity scheduling, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations. These approaches help reduce avoidance and build confidence in everyday settings.Another useful approach focuses on mood and behavior change through structured problem solving and activity planning. This method helps with depression, sleep problems, and low motivation by breaking goals into small, doable tasks and tracking progress over time.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Roberta collaborates with clients to pick techniques that match their goals and preferences, and she adjusts methods if something isn’t helping. The process is joint and paced to each person’s needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people meet face to face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, quick problem solving, and ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy days.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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