About Robert
Robert Mccaskill is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, and major life changes. He draws on 14 years of experience in community mental health and independent practice. His approach centers on helping people feel better and reach realistic goals when life becomes hard.
He focuses on mood disorders, trauma, and the practical fallout from divorce, job loss, or bereavement. Robert uses a person-centered, humanistic lens that treats the client as the expert on their life.
Background and approach
He aims to guide people through healing inner-child wounds and reclaiming a clearer perspective. Sessions emphasize straightforward skills and steady support. Techniques include gentle exploration of beliefs, building coping strategies, and improving communication patterns.
He also uses approaches that help people notice unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors to test what works. Many clients work on improving sleep, managing anger, coping with chronic illness or caregiver stress, and handling intimacy or parenting challenges. He often addresses issues like addictions, ADHD, body image, and career concerns with practical steps and motivational coaching.
Robert values collaboration and keeps goals concrete and measurable. He encourages people who are ready to take action and wants to support them through change with empathy and real-world tools.
How specific approaches guide online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then move toward actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. It is often used for anxiety, mood problems, and sleep or eating concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made, so therapy stays practical and collaborative.
Confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not list specific online formats. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by reducing travel and allowing sessions during breaks or from different locations. It also lets people try brief check-ins or shorter sessions when needed, and can support continuity of care when life circumstances change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- 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
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English