415.891.8638 robin@robinmayer.com

Robin Mayer LMFT

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
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Teens

My expertise is in helping adolescents and their families safely navigate the teen years and the developmental challenge of entering the adult world. I help teens and their families recognize the intense cultural, school, and social pressures in modern life. The focus of therapy often is on relationships with family members, peers, school, self-esteem, social media and substances.

I offer a secure and supportive environment, helping parents and teens set realistic and attainable goals, while overcoming challenges. These challenges may include excessive anxiety, anger, sadness, social skills issues, and addictive behavior. I also help parents and teens effectively navigate and regulate emotions while managing behaviors that can interfere with daily life and future opportunity.

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Individual Adult Therapy

Therapy is a process of identifying strengths and challenges in an individual’s life. With compassionate and goal-directed therapy, it is possible to change long standing patterns and overcome current obstacles.

My training is eclectic and attuned to thoughtful listening, insightful collaboration, problem solving, and compassion. I employ Psychodynamic Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Therapy and EMDR, all in a warm, respectful, interactive and curious way. Focus is your symptom relief — help in decreasing depression, anxiety, grief, communication impasse, substance abuse, self-esteem issues, and patterns of self-sabotage.

Couples

Couples sometimes feel the stress of each individual partner, as well as children, extended family, work, and their community. Oftentimes couples will be unsure of from where stress in their relationship is coming. I can help clarify these sources of difficulty and stress and help heal fractures that can get in the way of a thoughtful and engaged relationship.

Communication styles are a key to the work I do with couples, helping to have all parties thoughtfully listen, and speak up for themselves. Resolving conflict, displaying respect, deepening intimacy and forming realistic expectations, can all lead to stress reduction, and endearment within a couple. This can even occur when couples have divorced and are trying to form the best support system for blended families. The goal is to decrease friction and increase communication.

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Parenting

Parenting in the modern world is full of delight as well as fraught with challenges. Developmental milestones, school and cultural expectations, along with the pressures of the modern world, can lead to anxious times for parents and children alike. With warmth, curiosity, respect, and collaboration I can help parents navigate and build healthy emotional bonds with their children.

By creating a safe place to discuss concerns, form goals, and achieve results, parenting need not be a stressful part of family life. With proper guidance and resources, parenting can be a fun and joyful part of family and community life.

Services

Teens

My expertise is in helping adolescents and their families safely navigate the teen years and the developmental challenge of entering the adult world. I help teens and their families recognize the intense cultural, school, and social pressures in modern life. The focus of therapy often is on relationships with family members, peers, school, self-esteem, social media and substances.

I offer a secure and supportive environment, helping parents and teens set realistic and attainable goals, while overcoming challenges. These challenges may include excessive anxiety, anger, sadness, social skills issues, and addictive behavior. I also help parents and teens effectively navigate and regulate emotions while managing behaviors that can interfere with daily life and future opportunity.

Mt Tam

Individual Adult Therapy

Therapy is a process of identifying strengths and challenges in an individual’s life. With compassionate and goal-directed therapy, it is possible to change long standing patterns and overcome current obstacles.

My training is eclectic and attuned to thoughtful listening, insightful collaboration, problem solving, and compassion. I employ Psychodynamic Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Therapy and EMDR, all in a warm, respectful, interactive and curious way. Focus is your symptom relief — help in decreasing depression, anxiety, grief, communication impasse, substance abuse, self-esteem issues, and patterns of self-sabotage.

Mt Tam

Couples

Couples sometimes feel the stress of each individual partner, as well as children, extended family, work, and their community. Oftentimes couples will be unsure of from where stress in their relationship is coming. I can help clarify these sources of difficulty and stress and help heal fractures that can get in the way of a thoughtful and engaged relationship.

Communication styles are a key to the work I do with couples, helping to have all parties thoughtfully listen, and speak up for themselves. Resolving conflict, displaying respect, deepening intimacy and forming realistic expectations, can all lead to stress reduction, and endearment within a couple. This can even occur when couples have divorced and are trying to form the best support system for blended families. The goal is to decrease friction and increase communication.

Mt Tam

Parenting

Parenting in the modern world is full of delight as well as fraught with challenges. Developmental milestones, school and cultural expectations, along with the pressures of the modern world, can lead to anxious times for parents and children alike. With warmth, curiosity, respect, and collaboration I can help parents navigate and build healthy emotional bonds with their children.

By creating a safe place to discuss concerns, form goals, and achieve results, parenting need not be a stressful part of family life. With proper guidance and resources, parenting can be a fun and joyful part of family and community life.

Mt Tam

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