Robin Armstrong, a licensed social worker, received her MSW from UNC Chapel Hill in 2005. She played a key role in our implementation of ESFT in North Carolina’s intensive in-home services in 2016 at Carolina Outreach. With 18 teams Carolina Outreach is one of the larger intensive in-home programs to utilize ESFT as its main treatment approach. For the last eight years, as Clinical Director of Child Services, Robin oversaw the implementation of ESFT at the agency, providing supervision, ensuring the model is delivered with fidelity, and expanding the model to outpatient services. She was the first in the state to become a certified ESFT supervisor. She is currently teaching in our onboarding series for new therapists in NC’s ESFT intensive in-home programs.

Robin has extensive experience in community-based work, beginning her career working for Durham County Child Protective Services in North Carolina as a foster care social worker. She then moved to Carolina Outreach in 2007 and has had multiple clinical and administrative roles at the agency before her work with ESFT. Robin is trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.  Robin recently left Carolina Outreach in 2024 to pursue private practice focusing on family therapy.