Robin Gross, LCSW

Robin Gross, LCSW, helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and struggles with self-esteem or relationships. She works with a wide range of life changes, including parenting challenges, career shifts, mood concerns such as depression or bipolar symptoms, and issues around eating, sleeping, and compassion fatigue. Robin offers straightforward support and practical tools to help people feel less stuck.

With 35 years of experience, Robin draws on several therapeutic approaches to match each person's needs. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centered methods to build problem-solving skills and coping strategies. Sessions focus on clear steps people can try between meetings and on strengthening everyday skills for managing emotions and stress.

Robin describes therapy as a collaborative process. She listens to each person's story and tailors an approach that fits their values and goals, including faith-informed counseling when requested. She emphasizes pacing treatment to where the person is right now and addressing immediate concerns first.

Her background includes work across many settings over three decades, with experience in inpatient and outpatient care, developmental issues, and life-stage transitions. That range informs how she addresses complex situations such as chronic illness, caregiver stress, or attachment and abandonment concerns.

Robin works with people in Texas and conducts sessions in English. She helps clients develop practical coping tools, clearer communication habits, and steps to rebuild confidence after setbacks.

How these approaches translate to online care

Robin commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying practical behavioral changes. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and problem-solving during life changes.

She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people accept difficult feelings while clarifying values and taking steps that matter to them. ACT is often useful for stress, grief, and ongoing emotional pain. In many cases she blends client-centered work to keep sessions rooted in each person's goals and lived experience.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will review concerns, goals, and preferences and then suggest a path to try. That plan can change over time based on what proves most helpful, and clients are involved in shaping it.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins or quick reflections, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching-style contact between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and find a format that feels manageable.