Robert Janes (he/him)

I have the most experience with youth in my time working at community mental health centers. I enjoy working with young people to help them find their strengths and appreciate their gifts that they may not be aware of. I believe all young people should have adults they trust or feel safe with, and I have years of experience being that adult.

Men today face a world that is changing, and I believe that requires us to change with it-- but it can be difficult to admit to this, or difficult to know how. I'd like to talk to you about what misogyny means to you. How does it feel to think about the Me Too movement? What do you think of the term 'toxic masculinity?' I'd like to explore with you how to become a better person-- a better man. How that's defined and how that fits into the morphing definition that society deems will be our work.

Depression-- the state that mutes the qualities that make us who we are. If you're reading this profile, you've already overcome a great hurdle and have found some sliver of motivation. I'd like to help you find your way out of the bog-- I'd like to help you find the light within yourself to come out of the dark. You wont be alone in your fight-- your journey.

I have the most experience working with youth, and I enjoy this work due to the openness, willingness and optimism of the young people I've had the privilege of working with. I enjoy helping young people find their strengths, their goals and their dreams. I think that young people also need the help of a non-judgemental adult who they feels safe with or trust, and I believe I can fulfill that role for them.

I was trained in motivational interviewing in my time at Community Mental Health centers. I appreciate how it is able to look objectively at a person's interest or level of commitment to change and meets them at that level. I appreciate that it doesn't label a person as 'resistant' to treatment, and how it acknowledges that change is hard (it is!).

My Master's program toted an Existential-Phenomenological lean, which is a very wordy way of saying that it values each individual's unique experience, and attempts to undo (or at the very least be aware of) the tendency for us to reduce a person's lived experience to a stereotype or easy label. This falls in line with my own person value of being genuine-- I believe that one has to be genuine to face the other in their unique wholeness.

I was trained in CBT during my time at Community Mental Health centers. I value it for its accessible approach, palatable interventions and lack of esoteric terms or techniques. CBT is almost a household name even outside of psychology, and I can get behind anything that allows people to overcome whatever obstacles they have (real or imaginary, cultural or personal) to getting to therapy.