About Richard
Richard Bennett is a counsellor who helps people feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxious thoughts. He supports people dealing with addiction, low self-esteem, relationship difficulties and low motivation. He aims to meet each person with respect, sensitivity and kindness, and to make the first steps feel manageable.
He brings three years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and works with common emotional struggles like depression and anxiety. He listens for patterns that hold a person back and helps them notice how old habits affect day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Richard uses psychodynamic ideas to look at how past experiences shape present feelings. He also uses somatic methods that pay attention to bodily sensations and how the body holds stress. These ways of working can help with issues such as attachment worries, abandonment fears, codependency and chronic pain that links to emotion.
Sessions are adapted to each person's needs rather than following a fixed script. Richard will help people set practical goals and try approaches that fit their rhythm and capacity. He explains options plainly and checks in about what is most helpful.
He accepts international clients and runs sessions in English. For many people, simply talking through problems with a steady, attentive counsellor can reduce isolation and open up choices for living differently.
How psychodynamic and somatic work translate online
Richard blends psychodynamic ideas with somatic attention. Psychodynamic work looks at recurring feelings and patterns that come from earlier experiences and how they show up now. This can be helpful when anxiety, low mood or relationship worries keep returning.Somatic work focuses on bodily sensations and how the body responds to stress. It helps people notice breath, tension and posture, and to try simple, embodied practices that can change how anxious or stuck they feel. This approach can be useful for chronic pain, stress and somatic symptoms linked to emotion.
Finding the right method is part of the process. Richard will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then try ways of working together. He checks in regularly to see what helps and adapts the plan as needed so the work feels collaborative.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video allows face-to-face conversation and somatic awareness, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers quick check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility for appointments, shorter check-ins or pacing that fits day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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