About Bruce
Dr. Bruce E Riecks helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and other emotional struggles. He is a Colorado psychologist and uses straightforward, supportive methods to help people manage symptoms and cope with life changes.
He aims to create respectful, compassionate sessions where people can talk through what's hard and develop practical tools. Dr. Riecks favors a client-centered stance that keeps the person's goals in focus.
He also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Dialectical behavior therapy skills and mindfulness practices are used when helpful to manage intense emotions and improve moment-to-moment awareness. Sessions tend to be interactive and down-to-earth. He uses questions, exercises, and simple skill-building rather than long lectures.
Humor and a human tone appear in sessions when it helps people feel less stuck and more connected to progress. His listed experience is three years as a practicing psychologist in Colorado. He holds the credential CO Psychologist Psy.0003201.
He works with a broad range of concerns, including addiction, ADHD, relationship and intimacy-related issues, trauma and abuse, bipolar mood concerns, sleep and eating struggles, and self-esteem problems. People who want to begin are guided through a matching and scheduling process. Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How his approaches work in online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to the person's needs. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects feelings, and helps clarify goals so sessions stay relevant to what the person wants to change.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches specific skills to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It often includes small homework tasks and practical exercises to reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers skills for managing strong emotions, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness. These tools can help with anger, mood swings, and relationship stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client review needs, goals, and preferences and then try approaches that fit. Adjustments are made over time so sessions better match what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people see facial expressions and use screen-sharing for exercises. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be good for quick check-ins. Live chat and messaging support short updates or skill practice between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep continuity over time.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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