About Richard
Richard Castle is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with 24 years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, work through relationship problems, and cope with grief and depression. He aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can speak honestly about what they are feeling.
Castle encourages practical steps alongside conversations. He helps clients set small, doable goals and tries to make sessions straightforward and focused.
Background and approach
Conversations often include identifying thoughts and habits that keep problems going and testing new ways of responding in daily life. Over two decades of practice have involved a range of mood and behavior concerns, including impulsivity, commitment issues, and difficulties with communication. He also addresses challenges tied to fatherhood, money and financial stress, midlife transitions, guilt and shame, and infidelity.
This variety has shaped an approach that adapts to what a person needs most in the moment. Sessions are offered in English and can take place by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Richard uses these formats to match a client's schedule and comfort level while keeping therapy practical and goal-focused.
For someone unsure how to begin, he asks simple questions about current struggles and priorities, then outlines a clear path forward. Starting therapy is described as a step-by-step process where progress often comes from small changes and regular effort.
Practical approaches and online therapy options
Richard uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on changing patterns of thought and behavior. One common method involves identifying unhelpful thinking and testing more helpful alternatives in daily life; this helps reduce anxiety and low mood by breaking automatic responses. Another approach emphasizes skill building for relationships and communication, teaching ways to set boundaries, handle conflict, and repair trust after issues like infidelity or separation.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, current struggles, and what has or hasn’t helped before choosing techniques to try. Plans are adjusted as needed so therapy stays relevant and practical for the person’s life and priorities.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can fit a tighter schedule or require less bandwidth, and chat or messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent amid work, parenting, and other demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Antisocial personality
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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