About Robin
Robin Taufer is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California with 18 years of professional experience. She focuses on practical ways to ease stress, anxiety, and depression while supporting people who are navigating LGBT concerns, relationship strain, and family conflict.
Background and approach
Robin speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone starting therapy. Robin believes clients bring the key knowledge about their lives.
She emphasizes strengths and small, doable actions that build toward change. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with attention to what feels realistic day to day.
Her work addresses communication problems, forgiveness, and feelings of guilt and shame. She also helps people clarify life purpose and next steps when they feel stuck.
Conversations include learning new skills and testing them between sessions. Robin uses approaches that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
She draws from these methods to help people notice thoughts, change unhelpful behavior patterns, and manage strong emotions. Her style is warm and direct, with a focus on practical tools rather than lengthy explanations.
Robin encourages clients to try small changes, notice what helps, and adjust plans as needed. She recognizes that starting therapy takes courage and offers steady support through the process.
Using ACT, CBT, and DBT Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values, which can ease anxiety and give clearer direction in life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing thought and behavior patterns that fuel depression and worry, often with simple exercises to try between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches practical emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills to manage intense feelings and improve communication.Choosing which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan based on what works in real life.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing contact and short reflections between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy days.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English