About Robin
Robin Rutan is an Ohio-based licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) who helps people facing anxiety, depression, ADHD, addiction, trauma, and relationship struggles. She works with concerns like parenting stress, grief, sleeping problems, impulsivity, and career strain. Robin speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps rather than jargon.
Robin draws on two decades of clinical work across schools, residential programs, and treatment settings. She combines a person-centered style with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to help people notice patterns and try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
Sessions often include concrete tools, short homework tasks, or creative options like journaling and music. She has experience providing mental health and substance use counseling in school settings with adolescents, and previously worked in residential and psychiatric programs. That background shaped her ability to build rapport quickly and work with intense or complex problems without rushing the process.
In sessions she emphasizes strengths and collaboration. Robin aims to move at each person’s pace, offering clear strategies for emotion regulation, communication, and daily routines. She helps people break cycles of reactivity and develop skills that fit their life.
Practical supports are part of her approach: writing prompts, behavioral experiments, and brief skills practice between sessions. Robin encourages people to try small changes and then notice what shifts, so improvement feels manageable and real.
Approaches that translate to online care
Robin uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person's goals and experience; this approach means sessions start by listening closely and shaping work around what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is used to identify unhelpful thinking and try concrete behavioral experiments, which often become short homework tasks between sessions. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills are introduced when emotion regulation, impulsivity, or crisis-level stress are present, offering step-by-step tools for managing intense feelings and improving communication.Finding the right approach happens together. Robin reviews needs, goals, and preferences during early sessions and adjusts methods as people try techniques. That collaborative process helps pick strategies that fit daily life and feel realistic to use between meetings.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different days and needs. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills with worksheets, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quick check-ins, and messaging lets people share short updates or get ongoing prompts. These options make it easier to bring therapy into a busy routine and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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