Robin Livingston-Richter
Practical, validating support for parents and individuals
- Credentials
- LICSW
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Robin
Robin Livingston-Richter uses a practical, client-centered approach to help people manage stress, parenting challenges, mood concerns, and life changes. She is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker - LICSW - with more than 25 years of professional experience. Her style is validating and solution-focused, and she aims to make sessions straightforward and useful for busy families.
Robin draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help clients spot unhelpful thoughts and test small behavior changes.
Background and approach
She also teaches mindfulness skills to reduce reactivity and build calm in daily life. These approaches are used alongside narrative and solution-focused techniques to tailor work to each person's situation. Her background includes work in hospitals, day treatment programs, shelters, outpatient clinics, and independent practice.
She also co-founded a nonprofit called Mental Health Navigators, which supports parents and caring adults with children facing mental health conditions. That work includes leading a virtual parenting group for parents of teenagers. Robin trained at the University of Minnesota and maintains a Minnesota license (MN LICSW 03123).
She blends skill-building with practical coaching around study habits, organization, and day-to-day routines when helpful. Many people find this mix useful for concerns such as anxiety, ADHD-related challenges, eating and body image issues, and coping with midlife or career changes.
Outside of work she enjoys exercise, music, time outdoors, travel, and following local sports, along with her husband, two adult children, and dogs.
Therapeutic approaches suited to online care
Robin commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness-based work during online sessions. CBT helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through clear exercises and practice between sessions. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing skills to reduce stress and ground someone in the moment.She also uses client-centered methods that prioritize the person's goals and preferences. Together the therapist and client decide which approaches to try and adapt those methods as progress is made. That collaborative process helps match techniques to the client's needs rather than prescribing a single path.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy households and parents juggling schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions remove the need for video, and live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter check-ins or skill reminders. These options make it easier to practice CBT exercises or mindfulness skills between meetings and to maintain continuity when in-person visits are difficult.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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