Roger Schwarz
Compassionate, experienced relationship therapist
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Roger
Roger Schwarz is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 27 years of experience in California. He focuses on relationship and family concerns along with stress, anxiety, and addictive behaviors. Roger speaks English and accepts international clients.
He approaches work in a practical, down-to-earth way and treats people as the experts on their own lives. Roger starts by listening closely to what a person or household is actually dealing with.
Background and approach
He looks for strengths you already have and helps you use them. Sessions are aimed at clear, doable changes rather than long talks that go nowhere. He draws from different therapy methods to match needs.
That may include looking at how attachment patterns shape interactions. It can also mean using skills-based cognitive-behavioral techniques to reduce anxiety or compulsive behaviors. Roger has long experience with relationship problems, infidelity, fatherhood issues, family of origin concerns, and the hard practical work around divorce and separation.
He also addresses process and sex addictions, obsessive-compulsive patterns, and social anxiety. In early meetings he helps set simple goals and a clear plan. He aims to make therapy feel useful and manageable.
For many people this approach helps reduce stress and improve important connections.
Therapy approaches and how online sessions support them
The practice combines approaches to suit what each person needs. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and helps people change how they respond to closeness and conflict. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety and compulsive behaviors.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with clients to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That means adjusting tools and pace as progress and needs become clearer.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls let you read facial expression and tone, phone sessions are a simpler way to talk, and live chat or text-based messaging can work for shorter check-ins or when schedules are tight. These options make it easier to fit regular sessions into busy family lives and to continue therapy when travel or distance would otherwise get in the way.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
Next step
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