Dr. Elisabeth Robbins, LMFT
Compassionate, practical therapy for life transitions
About Elisabeth
Dr. Elisabeth Robbins helps people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or low self-esteem.
Background and approach
She writes plainly and listens closely to understand what feels most pressing. Dr.
Robbins is a licensed marriage and family therapist - LMFT - practicing in California with nearly three decades of experience. She focuses on relationship concerns and the emotional fallout of life changes.
People come for help with grief, caregiving strain, feelings of isolation, and questions about life purpose. She also supports those facing mood challenges and women's issues.
Her approach is practical and conversational. Sessions aim to identify a few concrete steps that fit into daily life.
She draws on methods that help people spot unhelpful thinking, rewrite personal narratives, and find workable solutions when problems feel stuck. Dr.
Robbins brings 27 years of clinical experience to each session, combining long-term perspective with down-to-earth guidance. She pays attention to how shame, attachment patterns, and spiritual concerns affect everyday choices and relationships.
Her experience includes work related to aging, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and caregiver stress. People who prefer flexible scheduling may find her availability useful.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so work and family demands can fit alongside therapy.
Approaches for change and online access
Dr. Robbins often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety and depression. CBT breaks big problems into small steps and teaches practical skills you can use between sessions.She also uses Narrative Therapy to help people reframe the stories they tell about their lives. This approach can be helpful for issues like shame, family of origin wounds, and finding a clearer sense of purpose.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss your goals and preferences, try approaches that fit your situation, and adjust plans as you learn what helps most. You and the therapist decide together which methods to emphasize.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let you work face-to-face when that helps, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or camera time is limited, live chat can provide quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports brief updates or reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Depression
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English