Dea Robinson

Dea Robinson is a licensed mental health counselor who combines clinical training with a background in military psychiatric care. She served as a Corpsman and Psychiatric Technician in the US Navy from 1997 to 2003, including two six month deployments in the Gulf and at GITMO, Cuba. After military service she completed a degree in clinical counseling and has worked across crisis and emergency settings, addictions treatment, inpatient services for adults and teens, day treatment for adolescents, school-based therapy, and outpatient primary care for children, teens, and adults.

Her clinical interests span a broad range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy-related issues, trauma and abuse, ADHD and autism, mood disorders, addictions, and parenting challenges. She reports strong familiarity with autism, ADHD, and psychotropic medications. Her therapeutic toolkit includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered approaches, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Motivational Interviewing, and somatic methods, and she also incorporates elements of food mood nutrition, bilateral exercises, and creative art therapy.

Outside clinical work she enjoys live music, painting, card games such as Hand and Foot, camping, classic car shows in a 1969 Chevelle, European travel, bingo and trivia, and cooking German food. She welcomes sharing a meaningful song or musical memory as part of rapport building.