About Robert
Robert Lower is an ACA counsellor with 16 years of clinical experience. He helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, low in confidence, or stuck in difficult patterns. He creates a calm, non-judgemental space so people can talk about what matters to them and begin to feel steadier.
Taking the first step can be hard, and he acknowledges that courage. Robert blends somatic ideas with practical talking therapies to help people reconnect with their bodies and thoughts.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on noticing how stress shows up in the body, learning small self-soothing skills, and testing new behaviours between sessions. He uses clear, simple tools from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people manage anxiety and depression. Attachment-based and client-centred ways of working shape how he listens and responds.
That means he pays attention to relationship patterns and offers a steady, respectful presence during sessions. He aims to help people understand how past experiences affect current reactions and relationships. Robert has supported people through grief, trauma, addiction concerns, and life transitions.
He also works with issues such as ADHD, body-image struggles, chronic health impacts and career stress. His style is practical and collaborative rather than overly technical. Sessions are offered in English and conducted online or by phone.
People who choose to work with him start by completing a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
How somatic and talking therapies work online
Somatic work helps people notice how stress and emotion show up in the body and then learn simple ways to shift those sensations. It can be useful for anxiety, trauma reactions, chronic pain impacts and feeling disconnected from the body. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without trying to fight them, and then choosing actions that match personal values to move life forward.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss options like somatic tools, ACT or cognitive strategies and together decide what fits the person’s needs and goals. That collaborative planning aims to match techniques to what feels most useful and manageable for each person.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These options help people fit support around work, parenting or health needs and allow regular check-ins without travel. Working online also makes it easier to practise body-awareness and coping skills in the environment where people live and react, so those skills can be tested and adjusted between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- 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-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English