Robin Behn (she/her)

My Approach to Helping

Robin has a holistic perspective on health and recognizes that sleep, nutrition, exercise, and creativity can affect how we feel. She cares most about the counseling relationship she and her clients build together, a place of trust, warmth, acceptance, and hope. She listens deeply to her clients and walks side by side with them to develop goals and gentle plans to reach those goals. Robin embraces evidence-based methods to help each person explore themselves and their story, as well as a toolbox of skills to promote well-being day by day. Robin’s trauma-informed, eclectic approach draws from Attachment Theory, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, CBT, narrative therapy, existential theory, and career theories. Robin is actively pursuing knowledge in IFS, Lifespan Integration, and EMDR this year.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

Robin is a mom and stepmom of grown-up boys and has prior experience in college teaching. In her personal life, she enjoys writing, listening to books, playing flute and penny whistle, anything to do with the arts, cooking with her husband, taking long walks around Portland, and learning the names of the beautiful birds and bridges here.