About Robert
Robert Pedevillano is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey with 25 years of experience. He focuses on practical steps people can use to manage anxiety, stress, depression, addictions, and relationship concerns. He speaks plainly and works to make sessions feel direct and achievable for worried parents and busy adults.
He draws on client-centered work to create an open, respectful space where a person leads the conversation. He also uses cognitive-behavioral strategies to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behavior patterns.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and narrative ideas are woven in when they help a person notice patterns and rewrite difficult stories about themselves. His background includes independent practice, hospital settings, community mental health centers, and employee assistance programs. Those roles shaped his focus on workplace struggles, managing difficult people, and helping clients identify strengths to meet goals.
That experience informs practical suggestions for coping and problem solving. In sessions he balances warmth with direct feedback. He helps people name blind spots that get in the way, then set realistic, manageable goals.
He also supports people through grief, trauma, parenting strain, sleeping problems, and issues tied to intimacy or attachment. People meet him to work on career decisions, impulsivity, codependency, divorce and separation issues, or to cope with compassion fatigue and burnout. He offers straightforward guidance and collaborative planning so people can move forward in daily life.
Online approaches that fit your life
Client-centered work focuses on the person's priorities and perspective, creating a respectful space where the client sets the pace and topics. It helps people who need a listening, nonjudgmental environment to sort out choices and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and replaces them with practical experiments and new skills; it is often useful for anxiety, depression, sleeping problems, and anger. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, which can help with impulsivity, intense emotions, and relationship conflict.Choosing the best approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals, try different strategies, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful. That collaborative process makes it easier to find methods that fit the person's needs and daily life.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a schedule. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or texting can serve as brief check-ins or for those who prefer not to use video. These formats provide flexibility for people balancing work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English