Robin Matchett-Schmidt
Compassionate, strengths-based clinical social worker
LCSW Wisconsin
- Experience
- 10 years in practice
- Focus areas
- LGBT, Trauma and abuse, Grief
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Attachment-Based Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Robin
Robin Matchett-Schmidt is a Wisconsin-licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with ten years of professional experience supporting people through trauma, grief, parenting challenges, and attention-related concerns.
Background and approach
She emphasizes a collaborative stance that recognizes each person as the expert on their own story, drawing on clients' strengths to navigate difficult transitions and distressing memories. Her work spans a range of life stressors including abuse, loss, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and identity-related concerns.
Robin uses evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral approaches and EMDR alongside attachment-focused and client-centered practices to tailor care to what each client brings to the room. She encourages taking the first step toward help and aims to make the process feel manageable for those beginning therapy.
Robin practices in Wisconsin and offers services in English. Her style balances practical strategies for coping and concentration with empathetic listening and attention to relational patterns, helping clients build skills while honoring their lived experience.
How Robin's Approaches Work Online
Robin uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help clients identify unhelpful thoughts and develop practical coping strategies for challenges like anxiety, mood concerns, and difficulties with attention. Attachment-based work explores relationship patterns and emotional bonds to help people understand how early experiences influence current connections and responses. EMDR is offered as a tool for addressing traumatic memories by using structured processing to reduce the intensity of distressing recollections.Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. The therapist invites clients to discuss their goals, preferences, and how different methods feel to them, and she adapts interventions as the work unfolds so the plan fits each person's needs.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which provide flexible ways to engage in care from different locations. These formats make it easier to schedule regular sessions, maintain continuity during busy times, and use shorter or more frequent contacts when that supports progress.
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Experience
10+ years
Licensed
Wisconsin
Languages
English