Dr. Robb Kerr, PhD
Therapist offering thoughtful, experience-led care
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Robb
Dr. Robb Kerr, PhD is a licensed professional counselor who emphasizes a client-centered approach in sessions. He invites people to speak openly and without judgment.
The first meetings focus on what worries you now and what you hope will change. He has 34 years of clinical and academic experience and holds a PhD in Counseling Psychology from The Union Institute. He also completed a PsyS in Clinical Psychology and Education at The Michigan School of Psychology and an MA in Counseling from Eastern Michigan University.
Background and approach
He lists LPC as his credential and practices in Michigan. In sessions he typically listens first and follows the client's lead while offering observations that help make patterns clearer. He draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at how past relationships influence current behavior.
He also uses trauma-focused techniques when past harm continues to affect daily life. Dr. Kerr works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, compassion fatigue, LGBT issues, relationship strain, and family matters.
He also notes additional focus areas such as attachment and communication problems, caregiver stress, blended family concerns, and coping with life changes. He speaks English and accepts international clients. Practical session formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules a time to meet according to the process provided.
How Dr. Kerr’s Approaches Work Online
Client-Centered Therapy means the session focuses on the client's experience. The therapist listens closely, reflects what is heard, and follows the client's priorities. This helps when someone needs a safe space to talk through current struggles.Psychodynamic Therapy looks at how past relationships and patterns shape present behavior. In plain terms, it helps connect recurring problems to earlier life experiences so they make more sense and become easier to change. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on symptoms that persist after harm or frightening events and uses targeted steps to reduce those reactions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist discusses options and tailors methods to fit the client's needs, goals, and preferences. This is a collaborative process where plans can change as progress unfolds.
Online sessions offer practical benefits for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions work when video is not possible, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit those who prefer written communication. These formats increase flexibility for busy schedules and for people in different locations.
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.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Exploring how earlier relationships and patterns still shape the present, often over a longer stretch of time. It relies on conversation and reflection rather than exercises.
Trauma-Focused Therapy
Work that takes difficult past experience into account and moves at a pace you set, with attention to feeling steady before anything else. Being in your own space can make that easier for some people.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
Next step
Talk to Robb
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- Nothing to set up just to look
- Stop at any point