Robin Livingston-Richter

Robin Livingston-Richter is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with 25 years of experience. She offers a calm, validating approach and focuses on helping people manage mood, stress, and everyday challenges. Robin speaks plainly and aims to make therapy practical and useful for busy lives.

She draws on client-centered methods to meet people where they are. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to spot unhelpful thinking and test small behavior changes. Mindfulness practices are taught to help with emotion regulation and staying present during stressful moments.

Robin has worked in hospitals, day treatment centers, shelters, outpatient clinics, and private practice. That range of settings informs how she adapts strategies for different life situations and schedules. She also co-founded a nonprofit that helps parents and caring adults of youth with mental health needs and leads a virtual parenting group for parents of teenagers.

Her areas of focus include stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, eating and food-related issues, anger, self-esteem, sleep problems, addictions, and coping with life changes. She also supports people navigating body image, codependency, family of origin issues, emptiness, guilt and shame, impulsivity, isolation, and questions about life purpose.

Outside of work she enjoys exercise, music, being outdoors, travel, and following local sports. She lives in Minnesota with her husband, two adult children, and dogs.

How Robin’s Approaches Translate to Online Work

Robin blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness practices to help people manage emotions and daily struggles. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and shaping sessions around each person’s needs, which helps people feel heard and understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and uses small experiments to change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Robin will work collaboratively to test techniques and adjust the plan based on goals and what feels useful. She emphasizes practical strategies that can be tried between sessions and reviewed together in follow-up meetings.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm the current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Many people find virtual sessions helpful for carrying skills into daily routines while still getting guidance and feedback from a licensed professional.