Robyn Jardine
Adjunct Instructor
Department of Counseling
Education
Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Monroe
Contact
51做厙 - East Campus
6116 N. Central Expressway, Suite 300
Dallas, TX 75206
About
Dr. Jardine is a social justice Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Supervisor, Licensed Professional Counselor, AAMFT Approved Supervisor, social justice activist and educator, scholar, author, lecturer/trainer, and a Safe Conversations Master Trainer. She owns and operates Life Solutions Counseling and Family Therapy, PLLC in Dallas, TX where she provides therapeutic services for individuals, couples, families, and groups. She offers consulting services and antiracist training/workshops in corporate, mental health, and educational communities. She serves as adjunct professor at National University.
Her scholarship and clinical practice are grounded in dismantling systems of oppression with a specific expertise in systems of white supremacy and intergenerational transmission of historical trauma. She focuses on approaches that decolonialize racialized social structures of power and relationships within our context, communities, and self. Her works includes facilitating white affinity groups, identifying patterns intergenerational trauma and cultural gaslighting, changing social power structures of wealth, and understanding the impact of cultural/family loyalty on intergenerational transmission of white supremacy. She believes these are some of the keys to transforming our social structure and lived realities into relational and equitous ways of connecting and sharing power that produce relationally just environments.
Dr. Jardine has authored several research projects and presented nationally numerous professional and community workshops. As a social justice advocate, she has offered local communities outreach presentations and resources about race relationships, inclusivity, effective parenting practices, family/intimate partner violence, substance abuse, and Safe Conversations. Her trainings include topics such as teaching professionals and students how to effectively and ethically utilize telemental health platforms in serving virtual communities. She has worked as a clinical supervisor, therapist, in-patient therapist, case manager, crisis line advocate, and Director of Student Success Services in higher education.