About Robin
Robin Rutan is a licensed professional clinical counselor in Ohio with 20 years of experience. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, addictions, relationship problems, parenting strain, grief, and stress. She also supports concerns like sleeping problems, self-esteem, career questions, ADHD, bipolar symptoms, and compassion fatigue.
Robin uses straightforward, practical work in sessions. She listens first, then helps people name the patterns that keep causing pain. She often gives short assignments such as writing, art, or music tasks to try between sessions.
How Robin works
The pace is set by the person seeking help. Her background includes school-based mental health and substance abuse counseling for adolescents and clinical work in residential and psychiatric treatment settings. That history shaped her skill at working with complex, co-occurring difficulties and crisis-driven situations.
She has experience offering support to parents who struggle with a child's mental health or disruptive behaviors. Robin trained at The Ohio State University and earned a Master of Education in Clinical Counseling from The University of Dayton. She holds the credential LPCC, which stands for Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor.
Her clinical toolkit includes client-centered approaches alongside cognitive behavioral and dialectical methods. Sessions are collaborative. Robin focuses on strengths and practical steps rather than only on problems.
She aims to build rapport quickly, use trauma-aware strategies, and help people interrupt unhelpful cycles so they can move toward the changes they want.
Robin lists 8 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.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
How Robin's Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's goals and experiences. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps the person lead the pace and topics that matter most. This approach is useful for people who want a supportive, nonjudgmental space to sort things out.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. Sessions include practical exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. CBT helps with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and pattern-driven difficulties like impulsivity or relationship conflict.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening communication. It is often used when emotional reactions feel overwhelming or when someone struggles with impulsive choices.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Robin will collaborate with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust over time. The choice of approach is based on symptoms, goals, and personal preference rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins, quick skill practice, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to use around daily life.
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