About

Gillian Robbins | PhD

Founder, Clinical & Transformational Life Counsellor

Dr. Gillian Robbins, PhD, is the founder and president of Transformations Counselling Services and a Clinical Professional Counsellor with more than 20 years of experience supporting professionals, women, men, teens, couples, and families through some of life’s most challenging moments. Serving clients across Windsor–Essex County, Michigan, and beyond, Dr. Robbins established Transformations Counselling Services on one simple belief: that personal transformation is possible with the right guidance, self-awareness, and a consistent commitment to the counselling process.

Dr. Robbins specializes in anxiety — including performance anxiety related to school, work, athletics, and personal life — as well as life transitions, relationships, self-worth, emotional wellbeing, and the deeper patterns that quietly shape how we live. Her intention is to help clients move beyond symptom relief toward creating more meaningful, balanced, spiritual, resilient, and abundant lives, while empowering them to turn the life they have always envisioned into reality.

As the sole therapist at Transformations Counselling Services, Dr. Robbins brings a deeply personalized and collaborative approach to each client relationship. Her therapeutic style is eclectic and integrative in nature, drawing from evidence-based modalities including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT), Mindfulness, Client-Centred Therapy, Adlerian Therapy, Jungian Psychology, existentialism, and holistic frameworks. Every counselling experience is grounded in compassion, understanding, authenticity, and non-judgment, while remaining thoughtfully tailored to each individual’s unique needs, goals, and lived experiences.

Since 2010, mindfulness has become a foundational component of both Dr. Robbins’ personal life and clinical work. Through firsthand experience, she has witnessed the transformative impact mindfulness-based attitudes and practices can have on anxiety management, emotional regulation, resilience, and personal growth. While serving as a Counsellor with Counselling and Psychological Services at Wayne State University from 2010 to 2013, she facilitated mindfulness workshops for the university community and provided psychoeducational training for counselling students — experiences that continue to shape and inform her work today. Transformations Counselling Services continues to evolve by expanding mindfulness-focused supports and resources throughout Ontario and Michigan.

When appropriate and aligned with a client’s interests and goals, Dr. Robbins also incorporates spiritual and consciousness-based perspectives into the therapeutic process. Drawing from disciplines such as Kabbalah, metaphysics, neuropsychology, quantum and applied physics, and emerging spiritual philosophies, she recognizes the ways in which these frameworks can support self-awareness, healing, creativity, and human potential. Her approach remains grounded, integrative, and client-centred, honouring both evidence-based practice and the personal experiences that shape an individual’s growth and transformation.

At the heart of Dr. Robbins’ work is a deep commitment to helping clients strengthen self-understanding, deepen self-love and acceptance, cultivate self-leadership, and create lives that feel purposeful, intentional, and aligned with their inner values and wisdom. She encourages thoughtful reflection on past experiences as a pathway toward greater clarity, healing, and empowered movement into the present and future. Her mission is to walk alongside clients as they develop resilience, expand their consciousness, and evolve into the fullest version of themselves.

Throughout her career, Dr. Robbins has provided counselling and rehabilitation services to children, adolescents, adults, couples, families, and individuals living with physical, emotional, and mental disabilities, bringing compassion, expertise, and holistic insight to every therapeutic relationship.

Dr. Robbins earned a PhD in Counselling with a specialization in Rehabilitation Counselling from Wayne State University in 2013. She also holds a Master of Arts in Rehabilitation Counselling and Community Inclusion from Wayne State University, completed in 2002. In addition, she completed three years of undergraduate studies with a concentration in Psychology at the University of Ottawa before earning her Honours Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Windsor.