Shirin Roberts

Shirin Roberts is a California-based licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 26 years of practice. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, or changes in life. She offers a calm, respectful presence for people taking the first steps toward feeling better.

Her approach centers on getting to know each person and their story. Sessions are client-centered, which means conversations follow what matters most to the client. She combines practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy with mindfulness and solution-focused strategies to help people manage hard moments and try new ways of coping.

Shirin also uses eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, a method aimed at easing distress linked to painful memories. She works with issues like trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, sleep problems, and low self-esteem. She also helps people dealing with chronic illness, caregiving stress, cancer-related concerns, and aging issues.

Many clients bring relationship and intimacy questions, communication problems, or conflict rooted in family of origin. Shirin supports people working through divorce, blended family challenges, commitment doubts, or forgiveness struggles. She pays close attention to how life transitions affect mood and coping.

Her style is straightforward and warm. Sessions focus on what can help in daily life - clearer thinking, coping steps, and small experiments between appointments. She invites clients to explore goals together and adjust the plan as they go.

How her approaches translate to online work

Shirin blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral approaches and EMDR to address stress, trauma, grief, and relationship concerns. Client-centered work means conversations are guided by what the person brings each session and by their goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behavior changes that can reduce anxiety or low mood. EMDR aims to reduce the intensity of painful memories and their emotional impact by using structured processing techniques.

Choosing the right approach is part of therapy. She will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made or new issues arise.

Confirm current session options before booking since formats are not specified in the biography. Online sessions can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, shorten travel time, or allow for quicker check-ins between longer visits. Discussing practical needs during the first meeting helps shape a plan that fits a client's schedule and daily life.