About Robert
Dr. Robert Egbert is a licensed mental health counselor with three decades of clinical experience. He holds a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology and an Ed.D., and brings long-term practice to people facing worry, low mood, and life changes.
He practices in Washington and offers services in English, including to international clients. He takes a straightforward, practical approach in sessions. He listens first, then helps people set clear goals.
He uses evidence-informed methods to help with anxiety, depression, ADHD, and stress related to work, parenting, or life transitions.
Background and approach
Over his career he has worked in schools and with families in other settings, so he understands challenges that affect relationships and routines. He commonly helps with communication problems, parenting strain, grief, substance-related issues, eating and sleeping concerns, and anger management. Dr.
Egbert draws from Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Existential ideas, and the Gottman Method. He blends approaches to match what an individual needs in the moment rather than following a single technique. In sessions he focuses on practical strategies you can use between meetings.
That may include skill-building for communication, steps to manage strong emotions, behavioral experiments to test new habits, and ways to approach relationship conflicts. He also pays attention to life meaning and values when people face major transitions.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on a collaborative relationship where the therapist listens closely and follows the person's lead. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to talk through feelings and decisions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and uses practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is aimed at improving emotional awareness and communication, which can help with intimacy and relationship tensions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk about goals and preferences, try methods that fit, and adjust as progress is made. That collaborative process helps match techniques to what actually helps the person reach their objectives.
Online sessions offer flexibility in how people connect. Video calls let the therapist and client maintain visual contact for more interactive work, phone sessions can be a quicker check-in or useful when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text messaging can support short updates or reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work through periods of travel or schedule changes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English