Robert Sherman, LCSW, LICSW
Somatic-informed therapy for adult concerns
About Robert
Robert Sherman is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of experience. He works with adults who are facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and major life changes. He is based in Washington and offers clinical care to adults over 18.
Robert uses somatic approaches alongside talk-based work to help people notice how emotions show up in the body. He also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking patterns and on EMDR for trauma-related memories when appropriate.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are part of his toolkit for building awareness and strengthening motivation. In sessions a client can expect a direct and purposeful style. He focuses on clear goals and measurable progress while keeping the tone respectful and nonjudgmental.
The work combines practical strategies, body-centered awareness, and focused processing of difficult memories. Robert has experience with adoption and foster care concerns, attachment issues, first responder stress, substance use, and challenges like loneliness, guilt, and shame. He also helps people navigate divorce, fatherhood questions, and finding life purpose.
His background includes employee assistance program work and clinical independent practice across multiple states. He holds the LCSW and LICSW credentials and provides psychotherapy and professional consultation for adult clients and medical providers. Sessions are scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis and are intended for individual adults only.
How somatic and trauma-focused approaches work online
Somatic work invites attention to bodily sensations and movement as part of emotional healing. Online sessions can include guided breath work, gentle tracking of sensations, and grounding techniques that help people notice where stress lives in the body and how it shifts. These methods often help with trauma, anxiety, and intense stress.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. It offers clear strategies for managing anxiety and depression, such as behavioral changes and thought-restructuring. EMDR supports processing distressing memories through structured protocols when needed for trauma work.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels workable. Together they decide whether to emphasize somatic practices, CBT tools, EMDR, or a mix based on progress and comfort.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work between sessions. Many people find the range of formats helps maintain momentum and makes regular care more accessible.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Idaho, Washington
- Languages
- English