Robert Mace
Practical, skills-based therapy for real-life change
LPC Missouri
- Experience
- 30 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Relationship
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Robert
Robert Mace brings three decades of clinical practice to his work as an LPC in Missouri, guiding clients through change by emphasizing practical, teachable skills.
Background and approach
He centers therapy on simplifying complex problems, helping people assess their current life situation and learn concrete self-therapy exercises that can be practiced between sessions.
His experience spans a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, eating and sleeping problems, parenting, anger, career challenges, bipolar disorder, and ADHD, along with chronic pain, codependency, communication and control issues, and family-of-origin struggles.
His style blends client-centered listening with clear instruction and a pragmatic focus on repeated practice. Sessions often introduce a small number of targeted tools designed to be used independently, with humor and creativity woven in when helpful.
Robert favors formats that allow richer interaction and encourages ongoing asynchronous journaling and messaging to support the work between meetings. He aims to help clients reclaim energy from completed patterns and direct it toward new life directions through steady, simple habits of change.
Using Practical Therapies Online
Robert Mace frequently draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in his online work. CBT involves identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and practicing specific exercises to test and change them, which can help with anxiety, depression, addictions, and sleep or eating problems. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathic listening and creating a supportive space so clients can explore goals and develop their own insights and direction.Finding the right combination of methods is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist partners with each person to determine which approaches and exercises match their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting methods as progress and feedback guide the work.
Online formats offer flexibility to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow richer visual and verbal interaction, phone sessions provide an audio option when video is impractical, and live chat or text-based messaging support shorter check-ins and ongoing journaling between meetings. These options make it possible to maintain steady practice of the self-therapy tools at the heart of his approach while accommodating varied schedules and daily demands.
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Experience
30+ years
Licensed
Texas, Missouri
Languages
English