About Robert
Robert Hendel is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with 10 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and low self-esteem. He aims to make the first step toward change feel more doable by offering steady, practical support and a nonjudgmental space to talk. He focuses on clear, plain conversation rather than jargon.
Sessions typically include talking through current problems, learning simple coping tools, and naming patterns that get in the way of feeling better.
Background and approach
Robert emphasizes skills that people can use between meetings to reduce panic, manage mood swings, and navigate grief or traumatic memories. Clients can expect a straightforward approach that balances listening with short-term strategies. He helps people build confidence and motivation, and addresses related concerns like isolation, social anxiety, and difficulties with communication.
He also supports people facing chronic illness, aging or financial stress as these issues affect daily life. Robert draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to tailor work to each person’s needs. He encourages collaboration on treatment goals and checks in regularly about progress.
The focus is on practical change, one step at a time. He provides services in English and practices in New York as an LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor. People begin by choosing the platform’s Start Therapy flow and completing a short matching questionnaire to schedule sessions.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Robert uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common method helps people learn concrete coping skills for anxiety and panic - breathing, grounding, and brief behavioral steps to reduce intense worry. These tools are aimed at lowering immediate distress and improving day-to-day functioning.Another approach focuses on processing trauma and grief in a paced way. Sessions guide people to name difficult memories and feelings, and to develop safer ways to handle reminders and loss. This work often combines talk with exercises to reduce avoidance and improve emotional regulation.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan as progress is tracked. This means the first few sessions are often about finding what feels helpful and practical for the client.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or mobility limits. Video calls let the therapist observe nonverbal cues, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit short check-ins, and live chat or text-based messaging allow ongoing support between meetings. These formats make it easier to maintain consistent care while fitting sessions into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English