Providing RPG Education since 1985 and RPG Therapy since 2004, Hawke Robinson is President of RPG Therapeutics LLC, a Washington State Department of Health Registered Recreational Therapist with a background in therapeutic recreation, music and recreation therapy, neurosciences, computer sciences, and research psychology.

“…Hawke is sort of the grandfather of therapeutic gaming. He has been tracking and involved in the therapeutic and educational application of role-playing games longer than anyone else.” –Adam Johns, Game to Grow, Executive Director, Lead Facilitator.

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RPG Therapeutics LLC - "Improving lives through adventure & exploration"

RPG Therapy, Education, Entertainment, Professional, Music & Recreational Therapy Services. RPG Therapy: "Improving lives through adventure & exploration."

RPG Therapeutics LLC's president & RPG Research's Founder, Hawke Robinson on Wizards of the Coast's Dragon Talk

RPG Therapy Roots & History:

  • Experimental Psychology (1879)
  • Various non-game psychiatric & psychological role-play techniques, including: Psychodrama (1946), Gestalt approaches (1951), Drama Therapy (1970s)
  • CBT (1970s)
  • Neuropsychology (1980)
  • Mindfulness (MBCT, 1991)
  • CFT (2000s)
  • RPG Therapy & RPG Research Project (2004)
  • Incorporation of RPG Therapeutics LLC (2014)

Our Headquarters are located at: 1312 North Monroe Street, Suite 114, Spokane, WA 99201, while we meet with clients at this location, and you are welcomed to make an appointment through the receptionist, we are usually booked solid so please email or call to schedule an appointment to meet. Use this online form to schedule an appointment or request more information from a diverse list of services.

On Krem 2 News / Northwest Cable News Network

Hawke Robinson on Northwest Cable News / KREM 2 News Network

RPG Therapeutics LLC provides professional services based on Therapeutic Recreation methodologies and standards, using music and role-playing games ("RPG Therapy") as modalities to help clients achieve their educational, entertainment, professional, recreational, & therapeutic goals. These services include professional training & certifications, publishing, streaming, therapeutic sessions, and educational programs.

Our individualized therapeutic programs are documented active treatment plans designed to restore, remediate, reduce, recovery from, or eliminate problems associated with particular diagnosis or other progress toward well defined goals. Examples include programs appropriate to the needs and interests of patients directed toward restoring and maintaining optimal levels of physical and psychosocial functioning, essential to the treatment of the client's condition.

Our interdisciplinary recreational therapy based programs are designed to be in line with providing "treatment service designed to restore, remediate, and rehabilitate a person's level fo functioning and independence in life activities, to promote health and wellness as well as reduce or eliminate the activity limitations to participation in life situations caused by an illness or disabling condition" (American Therapeutic Recreation Association, 2015).

Wheelchair accessible mobile therapeutic recreation facilities, providing services throughout the northwest.

The RPG Trailer and RPG Bus.

Hawke Robinson's Wheelchair Accessible Mobile facilities

Professional training and certification services, on-site or on-line.

RPG Therapeutics LLC at Seattle Children's Hospital

Speaking engagements, classes, special events, and workshops throughout North America.

Drum Circle Facilitation Training Workshop 2017

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