Robert Clayton, PSY.D

I am a licensed clinical psychologist providing psychotherapy and personal-growth workshops for adults and teens. My private practice is located in San Luis Obispo, convenient to downtown and Cal Poly.

I came to Psychology after a career in law and politics, and have since then worked clinically with adult and adolescent clients in counseling centers at Cal Poly, Catholic University, the Adele Lebowitz Center for Children and Families, the Meyer Treatment Center of the Whitman-Walker Clinic, and the George Washington University Center Clinic.

Many people find individual psychotherapy to be enormously helpful in resolving painful emotional and interpersonal concerns. Sometimes, the first step is the most difficult one of all. If you think you may have a concern that we could successfully address together, simply call me or visit my online appointment calendar right now to set up an initial consultation.

College should be an exciting time of growth and learning. But students experience painful states of depression and anxiety as much as anyone else, and these struggles can rob the college years of their transformative potential. For most college students, academic success is a top priority, but lots of things can get in the way.

I offer a range of mental health enrichment courses and workshops appropriate both for participants having clinical diagnoses and those seeking greater growth, change and connection. A Course in Transformation - an eight-week series. Great stories can nurture, transform, challenge, and comfort us.

Our most profound feelings contain the seeds of our transformation and growth. Often, however, our access to these healing emotions is blocked by fear, shame, and guilt. We are left feeling stuck-mired in depression, anxiety, anger, dysfunctional relationships, addiction, and other forms of emotional suffering.