About Robert
Robert Wagner is a Minnesota psychologist with 20 years of experience. He brings a direct, compassionate style and focuses on practical change. He talks plainly and works with people to set realistic goals and build useful skills.
He uses a person-centered approach that treats each person as the expert on their life. Sessions emphasize curiosity, warmth, and respectful honesty. Robert helps clients name strengths and also face difficult feelings so they can make steady progress.
How Robert works
Many clients come with concerns about addictions, depression, anxiety, grief, trauma and life transitions. He also supports people dealing with relationship stress, family of origin issues, fatherhood challenges, commitment concerns, and career or purpose questions. He has experience with intellectual disability and with prejudice and discrimination as a life stressor.
Robert blends evidence-based methods into therapy, including cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, motivational interviewing and solution-focused work. Therapy often involves learning emotion regulation, building coping skills, and practicing changes between sessions. He believes much of the work happens outside the hour, like building new habits and trying small steps.
He draws on personal experience with disability and long-term work in chemical and mental health settings. That background informs how he talks about loss, relapse, and recovery. Robert aims to help people discover strengths, reduce shame, and reconnect with purpose.
Robert lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
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.
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | MN Psychologist |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
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Online support options
Approaches for online work and practical skill building
Robert draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people see how thoughts, feelings, and behavior connect. CBT often focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying small behavioral changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood.He also uses dialectical behavior therapy techniques to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal skills. Those tools are useful for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and reducing impulsive reactions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Robert discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods over time. He aims to match practical techniques to the specific problems and pace that suit the individual.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video can support face-to-face dialogue and skill coaching, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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