Robin Rutan
Hopeful guidance for parenting and change
- Credentials
- LPCC
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Robin
Robin Rutan is a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) based in Ohio who helps people facing addictions, trauma, depression, anxiety, parenting stress, and family concerns. She offers steady, practical support for grief, sleep problems, self-esteem struggles, ADHD, and career stress. Robin speaks plainly and focuses on real changes that matter in everyday life.
Robin draws on two decades of clinical experience. She has worked in schools, residential treatment, psychiatric and substance abuse settings, and independent practice.
Background and approach
That background means she is used to high-stress situations and complex clinical needs and knows how to move at a pace that feels manageable. In sessions she blends client-centered listening with practical, skills-based work. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills when feelings run high. She also brings emotion-focused ideas and mindfulness practices into counseling. Creative tools such as journaling, writing, art, and music are offered as homework when helpful.
Motivational interviewing guides conversations about change when substance use or ambivalence are involved. Robin emphasizes strengths and collaboration. She aims to build quick rapport, validate feelings, and identify patterns that keep problems repeating.
Her style is straightforward and supportive, with clear goals and concrete steps toward improvement.
How Robin’s approaches work in online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building trust. The therapist follows the client's pace, reflects what is said, and helps people find their own solutions. This approach is useful when someone needs steady support and clearer direction.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep problems going. Online CBT often includes short between-session tasks and real-life practice to build new habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, and sleep issues.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills. It is practical for intense emotions, impulsivity, and managing crises, and it translates well to video or phone sessions with skills practice and homework.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying out tools, adjusting pace, and focusing on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules and to practice skills between meetings. For many people, remote formats increase access and let therapy continue consistently during life changes.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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
Next step
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