About Roberta
Roberta Davis is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. She speaks plain, practical language and focuses on clear steps clients can use between sessions. Roberta draws on 12 years of professional experience to offer steady support during hard moments.
Roberta has worked as a school counselor, social worker, primary therapist, and psychology professor. That mix gives her a broad view of how problems show up in daily life and relationships.
Background and approach
She uses that perspective to notice patterns and point out small changes that make a difference. In sessions she aims to create an open, nonjudgmental space where people can say what they are really feeling. Conversations focus on immediate concerns like sleep, mood, parenting strain, addiction, or challenges with identity.
Practical strategies and realistic goals are part of the work. Roberta also supports people coping with trauma, medical or disability issues, immigration stress, and identity-related struggles such as gender dysphoria and LGBT concerns. She addresses obsessive behaviors, phobias, and symptoms connected to mood or personality disorders with attention to daily functioning.
Her approach is collaborative and coaching-oriented when helpful. She helps clients build skills for emotion management, problem solving, and healthier relationships. The aim is clearer choices, fewer stuck moments, and tools that fit each person’s life.
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Roberta uses evidence-based techniques that focus on skills and real-life changes. One approach emphasizes skill building for emotion regulation and coping strategies to reduce anxiety and manage mood swings; this helps people handle day-to-day stress and urges. Another approach targets patterns in thinking and behavior, helping people notice unhelpful reactions and try small experiments to respond differently in relationships and at work.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to figure out which methods match their goals, needs, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is and isn’t working, and progress is measured by practical changes in daily life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for in-depth conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit during a break from work. Live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins, short skill practice, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options make scheduling easier and allow ongoing work without traveling to an office.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English