Robert Roof, LPC

Robert Roof is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado with more than six years of clinical experience. He combines relational care with practical strategies to support individuals, couples, and families across a wide range of concerns. Robert works both in private practice and in K-12 educational settings, offering mental health counseling and coaching to people of all ages.

At 48 years old, Robert brings life experience from a long marriage and parenthood to his therapeutic work; he is married for more than 20 years and has an adult daughter. Outside of counseling, he spends winters involved in avalanche mitigation and guiding people through avalanche terrain while snowboarding, an activity that informs his understanding of risk, resilience, and recovery.

Robert helps clients address stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, motivation, intimacy-related concerns, sleep difficulties, parenting and fatherhood challenges, career and coaching needs, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. He also works with specific areas such as attachment and abandonment, blended family dynamics, body image, control and communication difficulties, and first responder issues. His therapeutic stance is relational, client-centered, interpersonal, existential, and narrative, balanced with pragmatic, solution-focused techniques to help clients uncover blind spots, set goals, and move forward. Robert emphasizes ethical practice and building trust as central to the counseling relationship.

Approaches That Translate Well to Online Care

Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and collaboration so that the client's goals guide the work; it is useful for people seeking a supportive space to explore feelings, relationships, and meaning. Motivational interviewing focuses on strengthening motivation and commitment to change by exploring ambivalence in a respectful, nonjudgmental way - it helps with habit change, decision making, and building momentum toward goals. Narrative therapy invites clients to examine the stories they tell about themselves and to re-author those narratives in ways that reduce shame and expand possibilities.

Robert works collaboratively with each person to determine which approach or blend of approaches fits best based on needs, goals, and preferences. Finding the right therapeutic method is part of the process, and he partners with clients to adjust course as insight and priorities evolve.

Online therapy with Robert is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, providing flexibility for people with busy schedules, limited mobility, or geographic constraints. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care and access licensed professionals from familiar settings while working toward practical change and greater emotional well-being.