Robin Bates-Pualuan

What clients walk away with, in Robin Bates-Pualuan’s practice, is a fuller mental health toolbox — practical skills, clearer thinking, and relationships that work better for everyone in them. Robin is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in Campbell, California, helping adults and older adults navigate depression, anxiety, burnout, and the relationship friction that tends to build when communication breaks down. That friction shows up in all kinds of places: in marriages strained by mismatched expectations, in families where devices seem to win every bid for attention, in careers that have quietly hollowed a person out.

Robin’s clients span a wide range of lives — business professionals, engineers, teachers, parents at home — and what they share is a sense that something in their life or relationships could be working better. The work draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to reframe persistent negative thinking, EMDR to process the earlier experiences that still cast a shadow, and Gottman principles to rebuild communication from the ground up. Existential inquiry runs through it all, keeping the focus on what genuinely matters to each person.

Robin offers both in-office sessions in Campbell, near the Pruneyard, and online appointments. Reaching out when life gets hard isn’t a sign of weakness — it’s exactly the kind of proactive step that tends to change things.