Karin Robbins, LCSW, MSW, SEP
Behavioral Health + Somatic Therapy Practitioner · Love.Life
LCSW and somatic therapist helping Love.Life members work with trauma, stress, nervous-system patterns, and body awareness
About
Karin Robbins is Love.Life's Behavioral Health and Somatic Therapy Practitioner. She earned her master's in Social Welfare from UCLA, has held a California LCSW license since 1998, and has worked across county mental health, HIV/AIDS clinics, hospital and home-health settings, private practice, and somatic modalities. Her current work includes Somatic Experiencing, NARM, Enneagram coaching, yoga, Ayurveda, and nervous-system regulation.
What to Know
Signature approach
Robbins works body-first. Instead of only talking through stress or trauma, sessions use somatic awareness, nervous-system tracking, and relational patterns to help clients build capacity. Inside Love.Life, that behavioral-health work can sit next to functional medicine, nutrition, acupuncture, PT, and fitness.
What sets them apart
- Licensed mental-health foundation. LCSW training separates the work from general coaching.
- Somatic specialization. Somatic Experiencing and NARM give the role a clear body-based trauma focus.
- Integrated setting. Mental health is part of the care team rather than an outside referral by default.
Before You Book
- No medication management. This is therapy and somatic work, not psychiatry.
- State licensure matters. Telehealth depends on where she is licensed.
- Care style. Choose Robbins for body-based trauma and nervous-system work, not only talk therapy.
Expertise
Focus areas
Patient types
Credentials
Education
MSW, Social Welfare
University of California, Los Angeles (1995)
Additional certifications
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW)
California Board of Behavioral Sciences
California state license LCS 18692, held since 1998 - the regulated credential that allows independent clinical mental-health practice.
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP)
Somatic Experiencing International
Body-based trauma therapy method developed by Peter Levine - works with nervous-system regulation rather than narrative alone.
NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) Therapist
NARM Training Institute
Listed as a NARM Master Therapist on the institute's directory - a relational-developmental trauma method.
Touch Skills for Trauma Therapists
Kathy Kain
Yoga and Ayurveda Specialist
Self-reported on personal practice site - 300 hours of study
Enneagram Coach
Self-reported on personal practice site
Years in practice
30
Affiliations
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