Robin Akdeniz, Ph.D.
Hello! I’m Dr. Robin Akdeniz. I am here to listen to you and to hear you, to explore your understanding of what is troubling you or getting in your way, with care, compassion, respect, and without judgment. Whether it is something you experience in relationship with yourself or with an emotion, with a partner, with family members or friends, at work or school, we will work together to help create shifts and to co-create ways to help you move forward toward solutions. With my education and experience as both a licensed clinical social worker and a licensed marriage and family therapist, I work from a systemic and relational lens. Seeing you in this way brings the issue into the relational space between you and your issue, or you and another person, or you and another system (work, school, etc.). Considering each person's uniqueness, the approach to working with you will be designed specifically to meet your unique needs and desires within your context. Our sessions can be individual or with others, depending on what is most useful for you in the moment.
With my education and experience as both a licensed clinical social worker and a licensed marriage and family therapist, I work from a systemic and relational lens.
My solution-oriented relational approach incorporates mindfulness and utilizes your unique gifts, strengths, resources, resiliencies, special qualities, and talents to open space for possibilities to emerge so we can co-construct your desired future. I invite you to contact me for a consultation, for talk therapy and/or for hypnotherapy.
First session
In our first session together, we will introduce ourselves and I will answer any questions you might have regarding my approach to therapy, the structure of therapy and of sessions, and anything else you might be curious about. We will identify what specifically you would like to address in therapy and establish what is most important to you in the moment, so we can develop a treatment plan that speaks to your concerns as you prioritize them.
Strengths
My biggest strengths are my calm easy nature, my ability to empathize and actively listen, my curiosity and sense of hopefulness, my cultural humility, my keen interest in identifying behaviors in context, my ability to observe interactional patterns that are no longer serving you and guiding you toward developing newer healthier ones, and my systemic-oriented relational perspective. I see clients across all stages of the lifespan, from adolescence to older adulthood.
Ideal clients
In my practice, I work with people from adolescence through older adulthood. I see individuals, couples, and families.
Treatment methods
Relational
This approach, combined with a solution-oriented lens, honors what is occurring in the interactional space in order to create shifts in patterns, whether in individual therapy or with others in session. It is contextual, culturally sensitive, practical, present-focused and future-oriented, and hopeful. It helps clients consider possibilities, building on the strengths, resources, and skills that they possess to move forward toward a sense of well-being.
Location
Virtual sessions
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Licensed in
- FloridaLicense MT4153