Justin Robinson, MAMFT, LPC-S
"The teenage years aren't a problem to get through. They're a window. What happens inside that window shapes the person your child carries into adulthood. So the goal in this room is never just to get a teenager to comply. It's to build the kind of relationship between a parent and their child that lasts well past high school. That's a longer game, and honestly a more important one."— Justin Robinson, MAMFT, LPC-S
Why parents trust Justin with the hardest years
I didn't start out planning to be a counselor. I grew up in Southern California, and my own adolescence gave me a real taste of how hard those years can be. I lost friends young — in high school and my first years of college. One to an overdose. Others in car and motorcycle accidents. I became a Christian in my second year of college, and loss like that has a way of making you ask what your life is supposed to be for.
My degree was in business marketing, but after graduating I knew that wasn't it. I trained as an EMT and started the fire academy, planning on a career in firefighting. Then I started serving with Prison Fellowship, sitting with kids in juvenile hall, and somewhere in those visits it became obvious: I cared more about reaching struggling teenagers than I did about fighting fires. So I changed course and earned my Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth — the same city both of my parents grew up in.
My first years in the field were at a boarding school for at-risk teenagers, where students lived on campus for nine to twelve months at a time. You get to know kids and their parents deeply in a place like that. I led family conferences, ran parent coaching calls, and trained the house staff on how to engage the residents — teenagers of every kind, ages 13 to 18. The biggest lesson from those years still shapes every session I hold: adolescents don't respond to pressure or to adults who talk at them. They respond to honesty, consistency, and someone who refuses to give up on them.
After that season I moved into private practice, seeing teens and adults at a couple of group practices. And I ran into the wall every counselor eventually hits: one person can only meet with 25 or 30 clients a week, and the need in East Texas is far bigger than that. So in September of 2022 I opened Renew. As an LPC-Supervisor, part of my week now goes to training counselors who share this passion — building a team that can sit with hundreds of teens a week instead of the handful I could reach alone. The conviction underneath all of it is the same one I started with: struggling families can be restored.
A little about me
Southern California raised me, but my family is all Texan — both of my parents grew up in Fort Worth, and childhood vacations usually meant Texas: grandparents, cousins, all of it. Moving here never felt like leaving home; it felt like coming back to it. My family and I have been members at New Beginnings, our church in Longview, for more than ten years. My parents have since moved to Longview too, to be close to their only granddaughter, so we're surrounded on every side by family, friends, and church.
My best teacher these days is my eight-year-old daughter, who is deep in her soccer season and keeps me honest about what's actually cool. When I'm not at the office you'll find me playing basketball or hockey, snowboarding, or traveling with my family. Sports carried me through my own growing up — and the best coaches I had were doing something a lot like counseling: seeing what a kid could become before the kid could see it.
Most of the parents I talk to waited longer than they wanted to. Not because they didn't care — because they weren't sure anything would actually help. I understand that. It's hard to know where to start.
So I try to make the first step small. The Fit Call is fifteen minutes on the phone. You tell me what's going on at home, I ask a few questions, and I give you an honest answer about whether I can help. Sometimes the answer is me. Sometimes it's someone else on our team, or a different kind of help altogether — and if that's the case, I'll say so and point you there.
I've done this work for more than ten years, and my faith is a big part of why: I really do believe families can be put back together. If yours feels stuck, call. Worst case, you hang up knowing more than you did fifteen minutes earlier.
— Justin Robinson MAMFT, LPC-S · Founder, Renew Counseling Center
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