Therapist profile
Dr. Robert Crawford, LPC
New Jersey
Licensed counselor - Relationships and trauma
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- Credentials
- LPC
- License
- LPC, New Jersey / 37PC00040200
- NPI
- 1275747685
- Experience
- 20 years
- Languages
- English
- Location
- New Jersey
About
- ACT
- CBT
- Attachment work
About Robert
Dr. Robert Crawford is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) in New Jersey with 20 years of clinical and coaching experience. He works with adults who are struggling with relationship problems, anxiety, grief, trauma, codependency, and career or life transitions. He also addresses issues like intimacy struggles, problems with communication, and difficulty managing stress and sleep.
He mixes counseling and coaching to focus on practical change. Sessions are straightforward and goal oriented. He helps people identify patterns that keep them stuck and build small, manageable habits that feel achievable.
In session he uses a blend of cognitive behavioral techniques and acceptance-based ideas to notice thoughts and take action toward valued goals. Attachment-focused work helps people see how early relationships shape current expectations and reactions. Narrative approaches are used to reframe personal stories that no longer serve the client.
He is direct about outcomes and prefers tools you can use between appointments. Conversations often include skill practice, short exercises, and planful next steps. This approach is intended to help people set boundaries, reduce people-pleasing, and regain a clearer sense of personal choices.
Dr. Crawford’s background includes two decades helping clients with addiction-related patterns, intimacy and pornography issues, divorce and separation, caregiving stress, chronic illness, first responder stress, and fatherhood concerns. He combines clinical counseling with coaching methods to support practical changes people can test in everyday life.
How sessions work
How his approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values. It helps with anxiety, avoidance, and getting unstuck by identifying small steps toward what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at unhelpful thinking and habits and replaces them with more useful behaviors. CBT is practical for anxiety, sleep problems, and stress reduction. Attachment-Based Therapy examines patterns formed in early relationships and how they affect current intimacy and communication. This work helps people understand why they react a certain way and practice different responses.Finding the best approach is part of the work. He collaborates with clients to test methods and adjust based on what helps most. Sessions can mix techniques so the plan fits the person’s goals, concerns, and preferences rather than following a single fixed model.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current online options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow for shorter or more frequent check-ins when useful, and remove travel time. These practical benefits can help people keep momentum while trying new behaviors and setting clearer boundaries in daily life.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
20+ years
Listed in
New Jersey
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Will he help with people-pleasing and setting boundaries?
Yes. He works with people who have trouble saying no and helps them practice clearer boundaries and small behavior changes.
What kind of therapy style does he use?
He combines counseling and coaching with practical tools. Sessions often include skill practice, action plans, and brief exercises.
How much experience does he have?
He has 20 years of experience working with relationship, trauma, addiction-related patterns, and stress-related concerns.
Is he a licensed provider and where is he based?
He is an LPC, licensed in New Jersey, and practices from that state.
Can I work with him if I live outside the United States?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are offered?
Confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not specify which formats are used.
How does payment work and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with him?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
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