About Derrick
Derrick Prichard is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 22 years of experience who helps people manage stress and anxiety. He also supports clients coping with trauma and abuse, grief and loss, and struggles with self-esteem and motivation. Derrick aims to meet each person where they are and build a plan that feels practical and doable.
Derrick keeps sessions straightforward and respectful. He listens first, then works with each person to set clear goals.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on real-life changes you can try between meetings. He emphasizes compassion while encouraging steps that move people toward better daily functioning. His approach adapts to what the client needs.
Derrick combines talk-based work with tools from cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice patterns and test new behaviors. He also draws on client-centered practices that prioritize the person’s perspective and pace. For relationship-related concerns he uses methods that look at interactions and patterns, helping people change how they relate to others and themselves.
Sessions often include practical communication skills and strategies for handling conflict or repeated hurt. Derrick is licensed in Kansas as an LCMFT (Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist) and as an LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) in Florida. He speaks English and has built a long career supporting people through life transitions and emotional challenges.
If someone is ready to start, he helps them map simple first steps toward change.
Approach-driven online care that fits your life
Client-centered work focuses on the person’s perspective and priorities, giving space for people to set the pace and topics in sessions. This approach helps when someone needs understanding and a tailored plan rather than a one-size-fits-all method.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, breaks down how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches concrete techniques to change unhelpful patterns. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and low self-esteem because it gives clear skills to practice between sessions.
The Gottman Method looks at relationship patterns and communication habits, offering specific skills to improve connection and handle conflict. These tools are useful when interaction problems or repeated relational hurts are part of the concern.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then decide together which methods to try. Plans are adjusted over time as progress and needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is helpful for quicker check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and try different formats to see what works best.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, Florida
- Languages
- English
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