About Robb
Dr. Robb Kerr, PhD uses a client-focused approach to guide people through hard times. He draws on many years of clinical work to help people talk through stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
He aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure. He emphasizes listening first and then helping people find what works for them. That may mean looking at life patterns, discussing attachment and communication, or addressing trauma and abuse when it is present.
Background and approach
He explains ideas plainly and helps people try small, practical steps between sessions. Robb has 34 years of clinical and academic experience and practices in Michigan as an LPC. His background includes graduate degrees in counseling and counseling psychology and extended study in psychodynamic approaches.
This mix of experience shapes a balanced way of working that combines emotional exploration with practical problem solving. People bring a wide range of concerns, from compassion fatigue and caregiver stress to body image, commitment worries, or coping with major life changes.
He also works with issues tied to identity, including LGBT concerns, and with complex reactions such as dissociation or attachment wounds. Sessions focus on creating a nonjudgmental space to name what matters and try manageable ways forward. He invites clients to set goals, test new behaviors, and adjust the plan as needed.
Getting started is presented as a simple process to help someone move from worry to action.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and meeting each person where they are. The therapist offers empathy and support, encouraging clients to lead the conversation and choose goals that feel right to them. Psychodynamic Therapy looks at patterns that repeat in relationships and life choices. It helps people understand how past experiences shape current feelings and behavior, which can be useful for attachment, intimacy, and long-standing difficulties. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on the effects of traumatic events and on skills to manage strong reactions and reclaim daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. This is an ongoing conversation rather than a one-time decision, and plans are adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls enable face-to-face conversation when meeting in person is difficult. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflections, or flexible communication that can fit a busy day. These options make scheduling easier and let people try different ways of talking until they find what works best.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English