Dr. Robert Egbert
Experienced family-focused counselor
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Washington
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Robert
Dr. Robert Egbert brings three decades of counseling experience to his practice in Washington. He is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor - LMHC who has worked in schools and family therapy settings.
He speaks English and welcomes international clients who prefer remote sessions. He helps with common parenting worries and family concerns as well as depression, anxiety, ADHD, and relationship stress. His style is practical and straightforward.
He draws from several approaches and uses the methods that make sense for each family.
Background and approach
In sessions he focuses on communication, problem solving, and skills parents can try between meetings. He also addresses grief, trauma, addictions, eating and sleeping problems, and life transitions. Dr.
Egbert has trained in client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused interventions, existential ideas, and the Gottman Method for relationships. He blends these to match a household’s needs rather than following a single method. That means parents and children may do skill practice one week and work on emotional connection the next.
He has experience with blended family issues, attachment and abandonment concerns, caregiving stress, and challenges that come with aging family members. He also supports people coping with domestic violence aftermath, divorce and separation, and complicated grief. Sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Cost varies with location and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, use the Start Therapy button and complete a short matching questionnaire before scheduling.
How therapy approaches translate to online family support
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building trust. The therapist follows the family’s lead and helps people name what matters, which can reduce tension and open honest conversation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings and teaches clear skills for managing anxiety, mood, and sleep problems. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, concentrates on strengthening emotional bonds between partners and caregivers, helping families repair trust and improve intimacy.Choosing an approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit the household, and adjust over time. That means families try practical skills, reflect on what helps, and rearrange the plan together when needed.
Online therapy offers flexible options like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. These formats make it easier to work around school, work, and caregiving schedules and to check in between meetings. The range of formats also lets parents use the way of communicating that feels most comfortable while still benefiting from licensed professionals and structured therapeutic work.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English
Next step
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