About Robert
Robert Hoopingarner is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) in Ohio and a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Arizona with 26 years of experience. He focuses on common concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, parenting strains, and life changes. He also helps people facing career pressures, ADHD, and issues related to self-esteem and anger.
Robert keeps sessions warm and conversational. He listens closely and avoids stigmatizing labels. He treats each person as an individual and works with their specific goals.
Background and approach
In practice he adapts methods from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused approaches, the Gottman Method, and mindfulness. He draws from these ideas to shape a personalized plan the person finds practical and doable. Sessions can cover problems such as family conflict, communication difficulties, codependency, caregiver stress, or substance concerns.
He also supports people coping with trauma, attachment struggles, blended family issues, and aging-related worries. Robert describes his role as supportive and empowering. He focuses on clear goals and on tools people can use between sessions.
If someone is ready to make changes, he helps them take the next steps. Background and approach: He has worked across individual, group, couples, and family formats and offers both in-person and online care. His style blends listening with active strategies so clients can practice new skills and track progress over time.
He aims to meet people where they are and tailor the work to real life needs.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on respectful listening and supporting a person's own choices; online sessions let the therapist follow the person's lead while offering empathy and space to set goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches small experiments people can try between meetings to shift patterns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then suggest methods to try together. That decision is collaborative and can be adjusted as progress is tracked.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which makes fitting therapy into busy lives easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when being off camera feels better. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coping plans, or when someone needs more frequent support without scheduling a full session.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Ohio
- Languages
- English