Healthy relationships are essential to our wellbeing.

Let me help you with yours.

Hello and Welcome.

I’m Karen Robertson, a licensed psychotherapist with a passion for helping people rediscover, refresh, or heal their most important relationships.

I haven't always been a therapist.  I spent 25 years working full-time in a Fortune 100 company before changing direction to do consulting work and earn my graduate degree.  In those years, I was a single mother, divorced, remarried, and had two more children. Just after that, my daughter was diagnosed with multiple mental health issues, including an eating disorder. While she was an incredible student & soccer player, she became addicted to opioids following surgery. My sons were toddlers. After 15 years, 9 rehab/recovery centers, some incredibly wonderful and some incredibly heartbreaking years, we lost her.  The family survived.  My marriage survived. But not without a lot of stress and hard lessons learned.  Actually…to call those years stressful is an understatement. I felt well enough educated by life at that point to want to help others - so I engineered a career transition. Kind of a whole-life makeover…

Today, I am a therapist who is humbled by and honored to share the well-researched interventions on what makes relationships work. I’ve lived it, practiced it, and learned from mistakes along the way.  I know relationship challenges, grief, betrayal, redemption, and recovery.

I am proud of my education and credentials.  But I am prouder of my resilience and the experiences that have been critical in shaping how I relate deeply and authentically to a very wide range of people with their own personal and relationship challenges.   

My offer to you: A safe, non-judgemental, guided experience of exploring what holds you back, and my wise assistance with getting that crap out of the way of your best life and relationships.

University of Michigan School of Social Work, Master of Social Work (with honors)

Mount Holyoke College, Bachelor of Science, Psychology

CERTIFICATIONS & SPECIALIZED TRAINING

  • Gottman Couples Therapy, Levels I, II & III

  • Gottman: Treating Affairs & Trauma

  • Gottman/Navarra: Couples & Addiction Recovery

  • The Couples Institute

  • Domestic & Civil Mediation, State of Michigan, Resolution Services Center

  • Myers-Briggs Certified Administrator

  • Future Search Facilitator 

  • Six Sigma Green Belt

Services Provided

  • Relationship Counseling

    Whether you are experiencing disconnection, ambivalence, affair trauma, escalating arguements or want to have a deeper “next level” relationship, I can help.

    I have extensive training in the Gottman Method of couples therapy with state-of-the-art tools and exercises to help you develop the relationship of your dreams - things that you can begin using right away!

  • Individual Counseling

    So many of us have had difficult relationships in the past or are experiencing ongoing challenges in current relationships.

    I have experience with helping individuals heal from the hurt of past relationships, break old patterns of dysfunction in relating, and find joy in their own lives. I have tools to help you feel great about yourself (whether or not you’re in a relationship)!

  • Co-Parenting Coaching

    If you’ve experienced the hurt of a relationship breaking up, yet you are still tied to your ex because of your children - you’re navigating emotionally draining territory.

    As a divorce mediator and a Gottman-trained couples counselor, I can help you both learn tools that will help your children know that they are loved and cared for - despite the family reorganization.

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Karen Robertson's profile on the Gottman Referral Network

“Like the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which says that in closed energy systems things tend to run down and get less orderly, the same seems to be true of closed relationships like marriages. My guess is that if you do nothing to make things get better in your marriage but do not do anything wrong, the marriage will still tend to get worse over time. To maintain a balanced emotional ecology you need to make an effort—think about your spouse during the day, think about how to make a good thing even better, and act.”

  • John Gottman, Why Marriages Succeed or Fail: And How You Can Make Yours Last.

TESTIMONIALS:

“Karen has a lovely, no-nonsense approach. She is direct about what she sees and verbalizes her observations in a productive way. I have referred several of my clients to her for couples counseling and they have nothing but good things to say”. - therapist colleague

After a number of years and a number of different therapists, I can honestly say that Karen Robertson is the best therapist I have ever worked with.  Like most therapists Karen is well educated in her field, but beyond that she brings a level of intuition enhanced by her ability to listen deeply and hone in quickly on the right issues and the related questions to pursue.  Karen is truly in partnership with her clients in a way that engages both her skills and capacities but also requires the client to make an investment in their own well-being, and not just show up for a one hour conversation.  I can truly say that my experience working with Karen has changed my life by helping me recognize core issues and challenges in my life, and encourage my own ways of inner knowing to help me become wiser at avoiding unhealthy people and situations.  I am truly grateful for all the help and support I received from Karen and would recommend her to anyone searching for help through a great therapist. - former client