Robert Taibbi, LCSW

Robert Taibbi is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 43 years of experience primarily in community mental health working with children, couples and families as a clinician, supervisor and clinical director. A graduate of Rutgers University and the University of South Carolina, Bob has served as adjunct professor at several universities. Bob is the author of 11 books, including Doing Couples Therapy:Craft and Creativity in Work with Intimate Partners; Doing Family Therapy: Craft and Creativity in Clinical Practice; Clinical Social Work Supervision; Therapy Boot Camp: Action-Oriented Brief Approaches to Anxiety, Anger, & Depression; The Art of the First Session, Brief Therapy with Couples & Families in Crisis,and the forthcoming The Process of Therapy. He has published over 300 magazine and journal articles, and has contributed chapters to several books, including the Encyclopedia of Couple & Family Therapyand Favorite Counseling Techniques: 55 Masters Share Their Secrets,which cited him among the top 100 therapists in the country. Bob currently writes an online column entitled Fixing Familiesfor Psychology Today, is an expert contributor to Marriage.comand World Continuing Education Alliance, has served as an advice columnist for several magazines, and has received three national writing awards for Best Consumer Health Writing. Bob provides trainings both nationally and internationally in couples therapy, family therapy, brief therapy, and clinical supervision. He is currently in private practice in Charlottesville, VA.