415-860-5848 mrobi@sonic.net
I started doing counseling work in 1985 in Sante Fe, New Mexico. I received a masters degree in counseling psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco in 1989, and then my MFT license in 1992. I worked at a number of mental health agencies in my early years - 2 years at a shelter for teens in trouble (in Santa Fe), a year at a suicide prevention center in the Bay Area, 2 years in agencies with clients with severe mental disorders, 3 years at a Family Service agency in San Rafael, CA, and a 3 year internship at the Marina counseling center in San Francisco.
I’ve been in private practice since 1992, in San Francisco and San Rafael, CA. I’m now working only in San Rafael, CA.
I offer a free 20-30 minute phone call or zoom session for you to meet with me, answer any questions you have, and see if you would like to work with me.
My style of psychotherapy is client centered which means I focus on what’s most important to you. Into regular talk therapy I weave in Parts work (Internal Family Systems theory), Somatic work and Attachment work. Before I do any of these with you, I explain them to you and make sure you understand them and are OK working in these ways. I like to bring these methods into the work because they tend to go deeper than regular talk therapy; the changes are deeper and more long lasting. I also use EMDR for trauma work and sometimes for addiction work. I have some additional ways of working with trauma too. Usually most of psychotherapy is working with trauma.