About Robert
Robert Hickson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. He also supports those facing grief, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, addiction concerns, mood disorders, and challenges with self-esteem or identity. Robert works from Illinois and offers services in English.
Robert favors a direct, person-centered way of working. Sessions focus on what matters most to the client and on practical steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
He uses conversation, reflection, and simple exercises to build skills for managing strong emotions and making choices that match personal values. His approach draws on evidence-informed methods including cognitive behavioral techniques and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to address thoughts, behaviors, and values. Attachment-based ideas and emotionally-focused work guide exploration of close relationships and patterns that cause pain.
These methods aim to reduce distress and help clients develop healthier ways of relating to themselves and others. Robert brings 11 years of clinical experience across settings since graduating from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology in 2014. He holds an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor credential and a New York Licensed Mental Health Counselor credential.
That background informs a practical style that balances curiosity with clear, doable strategies. People can expect a collaborative tone and steady guidance. Robert encourages questions and works at a comfortable pace so people can practice new skills without feeling overwhelmed.
Approaches That Guide Online Sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that line up with what matters to them. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns. This approach often helps with anxiety, depression, and social phobia. Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on emotions in close relationships and can help people understand and change interaction patterns that cause distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That means trying strategies, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues, phone calls fit when bandwidth is limited, live chat provides a quicker check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, New York
- Languages
- English