About Roger
Roger Schwarz is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has worked in California for 27 years. He offers steady support to people facing relationship problems, addiction concerns, stress, and anxiety.
Background and approach
Roger speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps in sessions. He treats relationship challenges including infidelity, jealousy, and non-monogamous arrangements.
He also helps people struggling with codependency, process addictions such as pornography or gambling, and sexual difficulties. Roger addresses issues that often come from family of origin and fatherhood concerns as well.
Roger uses commonplace, easy-to-follow methods during sessions. He listens first, then helps people notice patterns that keep causing pain.
Together they try small, doable changes and practice new ways of relating to themselves and others. Clients can expect a calm, patient style that emphasizes strengths and clear goals.
He encourages each person to name what matters and to move toward more satisfying relationships and daily life. The work includes both short-term problem solving and deeper change when needed.
Over many years Roger has guided people through divorce and separation, obsessive or compulsive behaviors, social anxiety, and feelings of emptiness. He approaches these concerns with respect for each person’s story and a focus on actionable steps that fit their life.
Approach and options for online therapy
Roger often draws on attachment-based ideas, which look at how early bonds shape current relationships. This approach helps people understand patterns in how they connect, react, and seek closeness, and it can be useful for healing mistrust or repeated relationship conflicts.He also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, which focuses on noticing thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. CBT breaks issues into manageable steps and teaches new ways of coping with anxiety, obsessions, or addictive urges.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. He will talk with each person about goals and preferences and adjust methods as the relationship develops. That collaboration helps pick tools that fit the client’s life and make steady progress toward practical goals.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, homework, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English