About Bob Robinson

Bob Robinson is a licensed clinical professional counselor in private practice at Bob Robinson Counseling in Ellicott City, Maryland. His practice provides psychotherapy to children, adolescents, and adults in individual, family, marital, and group counseling. He specializes in individual, couples and family therapy. Additionally, Bob works most specifically with issues around abandonment, trauma, abuse, neglect, self-esteem, anxiety, depression, and how they impact his client’s lives.

He received his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Maryland and his graduate degree from Loyola University in Maryland. His graduate work in Pastoral Counseling is an integration of Psychology and Spirituality (spirituality in the sense of each person’s uniqueness in this life/ in the universe). Bob takes a holistic approach encompassing all facets of an individual’s personality, life experiences, and core belief system.

His first year of internship at Lighthouse, Inc. in Catonsville, Maryland where he specialized in family system dynamics with a sub specialization in child, adolescent, and young adult development. In his second year at the YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association) in Arnold, Maryland he again specialized in family system dynamics with a sub-specialty in abandonment, trauma, abuse, and neglect. He has received further specialized training in healthy and effective communication, effective co-parenting, anxiety, depression, self-esteem issues, and healthy family development vs. dysfunction.

In terms of clinical calling his work focuses on those who have been abandoned in their families of origin, marriages, friendships, work environment, relationships, and school environment- i.e. by being abused or bullied, etc.

Bob grew up in an extremely dysfunctional and traumatic family environment. He knows first hand how these experiences shape people’s lives, the issues and difficulties that one can carry one well into late adolescence and adulthood. He didn’t just read about these issues in a text or self help book or just learn about them in school. Bob lived through and overcame these dysfunctional and traumatic experiences. With the help of therapy and many other treatment modalities he arrived at a place in his life where he has been able (for the last 17 years) to help others overcome their past issues and learn to thrive not just survive.