Robin Rutan
Compassionate clinical counseling with practical tools
LPCC Ohio
- Experience
- 20 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Addictions, Relationship, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Robin
Robin Rutan is an Ohio-based licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with two decades of experience helping people navigate addiction, trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, grief, parenting challenges, and a wide range of co-occurring issues.
Background and approach
She blends practical skill-building with empathic listening, emphasizing client strengths and collaborative goal-setting to support change over time. Her practice draws on cognitive behavioral techniques alongside client-centered and dialectical approaches, integrating mindfulness and motivational interviewing where helpful.
Robin often includes creative tools such as journaling, art, and music as homework to deepen insight and reinforce new coping strategies. Her background includes work in residential treatment, psychiatric and substance abuse settings, public program administration, and school-based mental health and substance use counseling for adolescents.
Clients can expect a therapist who focuses on building rapport quickly, thinks creatively about interventions, and works at the client’s pace. Robin frames therapy as a partnership that identifies unhelpful patterns, validates emotions, and teaches practical skills for managing stress, impulsivity, sleep concerns, or mood instability.
Her Ohio LPCC credential is listed as OH LPCC E.0800023-SUPV.
CBT, Client-Centered Care, and DBT Tools for Online Work
Robin uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help clients identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, applying practical exercises to address anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and impulsivity. Client-centered therapy guides the relationship with empathy and respect, ensuring the client’s goals and pace shape the work rather than a one-size-fits-all approach. Dialectical behavior therapy contributes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills that are useful for mood instability, self-harm urges, and relationship difficulties.Choosing the right approach is part of the collaborative process. The therapist will discuss the client’s needs, goals, and preferences and recommend techniques or a blend of methods that fit those priorities. Over time the plan can be adjusted based on what is working and what the client wants to focus on.
Online therapy sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for varied schedules and communication styles. These formats make it easier to fit consistent skill practice into daily life, access regular check-ins, and use homework tools like journaling or audio exercises between sessions.
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Experience
20+ years
Licensed
Ohio
Languages
English