Robin Livingston-Richter, LICSW

Robin Livingston-Richter is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) who brings more than 25 years of experience supporting teenagers, young adults, adults, and parents. She has worked across a range of clinical settings including hospitals, day treatment centers, shelters, outpatient clinics, and private practice, building a broad foundation in both crisis and ongoing care. Robin blends evidence-informed approaches with practical coaching strategies, drawing on client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), mindfulness practices, narrative therapy, and solution-focused techniques to help people move toward their goals.

Known for a validating and solution-oriented style, she also teaches intentional living and mindfulness skills and holds certification as an ADHD Life Coach to provide targeted success strategies for students, parents, and employees. Her clinical interests span stress, anxiety, depression, parenting and family concerns, ADHD, addictions, relationship issues, eating and body image challenges, sleep difficulties, anger, self-esteem, career transitions, and coping with life changes. Additional areas of focus include codependency, family of origin issues, mood disorders, impulsivity, isolation and loneliness, and support for families managing complex needs such as Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder and intellectual disability.

Robin is a co-founder of Mental Health Navigators, a nonprofit that assists parents and caring adults with children who have a mental health condition, and she facilitates a virtual parenting group for parents of teenagers. She completed graduate studies at the University of Minnesota in 1993 and lives in Minnesota. Outside of her professional work she enjoys exercise, music, time outdoors, travel, cheering for local sports teams, and spending time with her husband, two adult children, and her dogs.