About Robert
Robert Theriault is a licensed marriage and family therapist who offers calm, nonjudgmental support for people facing relationship and life stress. He focuses on practical goals and helps clients work through anxiety, depression, grief, parenting strains, and issues around intimacy and communication. He draws on 24 years of experience and tailors his approach to each person.
Sessions are driven by the client’s needs, with clear steps and concrete tools when helpful.
How Robert works
He blends conversations about feelings with strategies to change unhelpful patterns of thinking and behavior. Robert uses client-centered methods to make room for each person’s story. He also incorporates cognitive behavioral ideas to identify thinking traps and try new behaviors.
Mindfulness practices are offered to help manage stress and increase moment-to-moment awareness. He has worked with concerns that include trauma and abuse, addictions, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. He also supports people dealing with family of origin problems, adoption and foster care questions, blended family dynamics, and divorce or separation challenges.
Robert includes coaching-style work for career decisions and life changes, and he sometimes blends experiential practices such as yoga into sessions for body-mind balance. He is based in Delaware and brings a practical, respectful style aimed at helping people make steady progress.
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What Robert works with
The areas below are the ones Robert selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Delaware |
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Approaches and how online sessions can help
Robert commonly uses client-centered therapy to create a supportive space where the person leads the pace and topic of each session. This approach focuses on understanding the individual's experience and building self-direction and insight.He also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect feelings. CBT provides practical exercises and small experiments to test different ways of thinking and behaving, which can help with anxiety, depression, and patterns that cause relationship problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Robert collaborates with people to choose or adapt methods based on goals, preferences, and how someone responds to early sessions. He adjusts pace and tools as needed so therapy stays useful and focused.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video is useful for a more traditional face-to-face feel, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat can fit quick check-ins or times when a shorter contact is needed. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between sessions.
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