About Robert
Robert Mace brings three decades of counseling experience to his work in Missouri. He emphasizes a straightforward, practical approach that helps people let go of what no longer serves them and build simple daily skills. Robert is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC and focuses on teaching repeatable tools people can use on their own.
He begins by listening to a person's current story and identifying the most pressing patterns.
Background and approach
Then he introduces one or two concrete exercises to try between sessions. The goal is for clients to develop reliable self-therapy skills they can use without constant guidance. Sessions often include brief teaching segments, hands-on practice, and follow-up assignments.
Robert favors clear, plain language over clinical jargon. He may add light humor or creative ideas when it helps someone stay engaged. Over thirty years he has drawn from several approaches including client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused ideas, existential questions, and mindfulness.
He tailors those methods into a compact program that emphasizes simplicity and repetition. Robert prefers video sessions for richer interaction but also supports phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. He encourages ongoing journaling-style messages between sessions to track practice and progress.
People who want direct, skill-focused therapy often find his style a fit.
Practical approaches for online therapy and learning skills
Client-centered therapy places the person's experience at the center of sessions. The therapist listens carefully, reflects what is said, and helps the person arrive at their own solutions. This approach is useful for people who want empathy and a collaborative tone in sessions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. It includes simple exercises to try between meetings and suits worries, anxiety, depression, and patterns that respond to practice.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy emphasizes understanding emotional responses and how they shape close relationships. It helps people name their feelings and try new ways of relating when connection or intimacy is a concern.
Choosing an approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, habits, and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. That plan can shift over time based on what proves most useful and fits practical needs.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is often preferred for richer interaction, phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging work well for brief check-ins and journaling between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep practicing skills between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Missouri
- Languages
- English