About
Robin Bates-Pualuan, LMFT, LPCC – Marriage and Family Therapist
I’m a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (license #MFC52419) and Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (license #LPC420), offering psychotherapy and counseling services in the south Bay Area. I focus on treating individual adults and parents. As an intern, I worked with individuals, teens, children, couples, and families. I served as a school counselor at Leland High School, Castillero Middle School, Union Middle School, Guadalupe Elementary School and Los Alamitos Elementary School. I’ve taught parenting classes for parents of children of all age groups. I’ve also provided supportive telephone crisis counseling at Santa Clara County’s Suicide and Crisis Hotline and at Contact Cares Crisis Hotline.
I was born and raised in the south Bay Area. I earned a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from UC Davis and a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from San Jose State University. After working in non-profit fundraising for nearly 10 years, my fascination with people’s life stories led me to choose a career helping others find new ways to tap into and fulfill their potential.
I am married and have two children. As a child of divorce, and now a married person myself, I have a special interest in relationships and the hard work it sometimes takes to keep a partnership healthy and strong. As a mother, I also particularly enjoy helping moms and dads work through the struggles that accompany the joys of raising kids.
Treatment Approach
Sometimes the challenges we face today are tangled up with challenges or experiences we had earlier in our lives. I am trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), an empirically validated therapeutic treatment for trauma and negative life experiences. Through desensitizing and reprocessing those life experiences I can help you work toward getting unstuck from the hold they have over you, and integrate all your life experiences into who you are today in a healthy, beneficial way.
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education & Credentials:
- B.A. in Psychology, UC Davis
- M.S. in Clinical Psychology, San Jose State University
- Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (license #MFC52419)
- Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (license #LPC420)
Professional Associations:
- California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)
- Santa Clara Valley chapter of CAMFT (SCV-CAMFT)
- EMDR International Assocation (EMDRIA)
Contact Me
Please do not submit any Protected Health Information (PHI).
My Availability
Monday
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Tuesday
10:00 am - 05:00 pm
Wednesday
10:00 am - 05:00 pm
Thursday
10:00 am - 05:00 pm
Friday
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Weekend
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My Availability
Monday
Closed
Tuesday
10:00 am - 05:00 pm
Wednesday
10:00 am - 05:00 pm
Thursday
10:00 am - 05:00 pm
Friday
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Weekend
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Robin Bates-Pualuan, LMFT, LPCC | South Bay Psychotherapy
Find help for Anxiety or Fears, Codependency, Depression, Parenting, Postpartum Depression, Relationship Issues, Self-esteem, Work & Career Counseling, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
Service Areas: Campbell, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Saratoga, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Los Altos, Mountain View, San Jose, Palo Alto, Milpitas, Willow Glen, Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley, Morgan Hill, Silicon Valley and the greater Bay Area.
Marriage and Family Therapist & counselor in Campbell, California, 95008
