Roger Schwarz, LMFT

Roger Schwarz is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 27 years of professional experience. He focuses on relationship concerns, stress, anxiety, and a range of addiction and intimacy issues. Roger approaches sessions as a collaborative process that centers the client's own knowledge of their life.

He works with people facing codependency, dependent personality patterns, divorce and separation, and problems that come from family of origin dynamics. He also addresses fatherhood concerns, infidelity, jealousy, and sexual issues including sexual dysfunction and sex addiction. Social anxiety and phobia, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, and process addictions such as gambling or problematic exercise and pornography use are included in his areas of attention.

Roger combines several therapeutic approaches in his work. He draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early and close relationships shape current patterns. Client-centered methods guide conversations so the client's perspective stays central. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) provides concrete tools for shifting thoughts and behaviors.

Sessions are conversational and practical. He helps people identify strengths they already have and ways to use those strengths to manage stress and improve relationships. He encourages steady steps rather than sudden overhaul, and focuses on what clients can try between meetings.

People who prefer direct, respectful conversation about relationship problems and anxiety often find his style useful. He asks about goals, offers options based on evidence-based methods, and supports people as they test new ways of relating and coping.

How Roger blends approaches for online sessions