Robin Livingston-Richter , LICSW

Robin Livingston-Richter is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with more than 25 years of experience. She offers straightforward, practical support for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, parenting strain, and eating or body-image concerns. Robin emphasizes real strategies that fit daily life and goals.

Robin blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices. She focuses on building skills for managing mood, impulsivity, and sleep, and on problem areas like codependency, guilt, and isolation. Sessions often include goal-setting, skill practice, and short-term problem solving.

Her background spans hospitals, day treatment, shelters, outpatient clinics, and private practice. That range shaped a flexible approach for different life challenges, from school and work stress to more persistent mood difficulties. She also co-founded a nonprofit that supports parents of children with mental health conditions.

Robin teaches ADHD success strategies and runs virtual parenting groups for parents of teenagers. She uses coaching-style tools for organization and planning alongside therapeutic work when helpful. Those tools are offered as part of a collaborative process with each person’s goals driving the plan.

Based in Minnesota, Robin works with adults, young adults, teenagers, and parents. She enjoys exercise, music, the outdoors, travel, and time with family and dogs when she isn’t seeing clients. Her approach is warm, practical, and focused on helping people take the next step forward.

How Robin’s Approaches Work Online

Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s goals and lived experience. The therapist listens carefully, reflects back what she hears, and helps people identify steps that feel doable. This approach is useful for people who want to be heard and to shape their own plan for change.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going. Sessions often include short experiments, skill practice, and clear homework to build new habits for anxiety, mood, sleep, and impulsivity. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus in daily life.

Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. Robin will talk with clients about their needs, goals, and preferences, then try methods that fit. Plans are adjusted as people learn what helps them most.

Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat fits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching-style reminders and reflection. These options offer flexibility for people juggling work, school, parenting, or health concerns.