Conscious Choices
When success on the outside doesn’t match how you feel inside,
its time to come home to yourself.
You hold a great deal together for everyone around you.
On the outside, you appear capable, thoughtful, and composed.
But privately, you may feel emotionally exhausted, disconnected, anxious, reactive, or alone in ways others cannot see.
You may find yourself:
- replaying conversations long after they end
- withdrawing from the people you love most
- overfunctioning at work while feeling depleted inside
- sitting in your car for a few extra minutes before walking into the house
- wondering why success no longer feels the way you thought it would
Therapy offers a place to stop performing and begin reconnecting: with yourself, your relationships, and the parts of you that have been carrying too much for too long.
As a licensed marriage and family therapist with a background in both corporate leadership and clinical care, I help individuals, couples, and professionals transform patterns of anxiety, conflict, emotional overwhelm, and disconnection into greater clarity, emotional steadiness, and relational trust.
My work integrates Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Gottman Method principles, systems thinking, and emotional intelligence tools such as the EQ-i 2.0 assessment to help clients strengthen communication, deepen connection, and create lasting change from the inside out.
120 Corn Planters Street, Charleston, SC. 29492
(828) 329-0431
ROBERTA@CONSCIOUSCHOICES.COM
Emotionally Attuned
Therapy that honors your experience and helps you feel seen, supported, and understood without judgement.
Growth Oriented
A clear, practical path forward grounded in emotional intelligence, insight, and measurable tools for change.
Inclusive & Welcoming
A safe, affirming space for all identities and lived experiences because healing is for everyone.
Relationship challenges rarely stay contained in one area of life: they ripple outward into how you work, lead, communicate, and connect.
Many of the people I work with appear highly capable on the outside. They are thoughtful partners, responsible professionals, dependable leaders, and caregivers for others. Yet internally, they are often carrying an invisible emotional load.
You may find yourself:
- managing everyone else’s emotions while losing touch with your own
- rehearsing conversations before they happen
- becoming reactive in moments that once felt manageable
- emotionally exhausted from trying to hold everything together
- wondering why relationships that once felt natural now feel strained or distant
These struggles are not signs of failure. They are often signs of overwhelm, disconnection, and patterns that have gone unseen for a long time.
My approach blends Emotionally Focused Therapy, Systems Theory, Gottman Method principles, and the EQ-i 2.0 emotional intelligence assessment to help individuals, couples, and professionals move beyond surface communication into deeper emotional awareness, steadiness, and connection.
Together, we identify recurring relational patterns, strengthen emotional self-regulation and communication skills, and create meaningful, measurable change so you can respond more calmly under pressure, reconnect more authentically with others, and feel more grounded within yourself.
What Roberta’s Clients Say
“It is with appreciation and gratitude that I want to thank you! Your generosity and skillful help put me on the road to self-discovery.”
“I met you during a difficult moment in my life and you helped give me perspective, open my horizons and give me a better sense of the issues that arose. I’m a different person now and feel freer, more self-reliant, closer to my family and my wife and more in tune with my surroundings.”
“Your caring, love and concern have really meant a lot over the last couple years. Your professional abilities really helped me to get started working through my stuff. You’ve been my “rock” in a very difficult time in my life.”
“I want to thank you for being the caring human being that you are and I feel you are truly gifted as a healer. I would highly recommend anyone to talk to you in a time of need or simply for reassurance to see life’s possibilities.”
“Thank you for your continued support and guidance. I am proud of my progress and feel blessed to have found you.”
“So happy you are a part of our lives. We are blessed. Thank you.”
“Thank you so much for walking with me during that rugged passage. I am processing all my inner stuff. I love you and am grateful to you.”
“You, BY FAR, are the best therapist I have ever talked to. I am lucky to have found you. I always, always think of our conversations. Roberta, you are an excellent teacher and someone to look up to.”