About Robin
Dr. Robin Avery helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addictions, and major life changes. She also supports concerns about relationships, intimacy, eating and body image, parenting strain, career questions, and compassion fatigue.
Dr. Avery brings 18 years of professional experience as a clinical psychologist and practices from North Carolina. Her style is warm and straightforward.
Sessions focus on clear skills you can use between meetings and on understanding the patterns that keep you stuck.
How Robin works
She mixes practical tools with chances to notice feelings and personal values. Dr. Avery uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral methods, and attachment-informed work.
That means she helps people learn new behaviors, notice thoughts that cause distress, and build stronger emotional connection with themselves and others. She values working with the whole person. Life experience, aging, illness, caregiving stress, and cultural interests all inform her view of recovery and growth.
Her background includes work with trauma and abuse, bipolar mood concerns, chronic pain and illness, and eating and food-related issues. In sessions she teaches coping strategies for crisis moments, skills for managing emotions, and ways to pursue meaningful goals. The aim is clearer thinking, steadier mood, and more satisfying relationships and daily routines.
Robin lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Robin works with
The areas below are the ones Robin selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NC Psychologist, CA Psychologist |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | North Carolina |
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Online support options
How her methods translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions based on personal values rather than feeling stuck. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing thinking and behavior patterns that contribute to distress, offering concrete tools for panic, low mood, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early and current relationships shape emotional patterns and helps people build more supported ways of relating to themselves and others.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That process can include trying different techniques and adjusting the plan as progress and new concerns emerge.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let you read facial expressions and use screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone works well when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Messaging and live chat offer flexibility for brief check-ins, homework support, and continued skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, or mobility challenges while keeping therapy focused and practical.
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